Dietary Fiber from Underutilized Plant Resources—A Positive Approach for Valorization of Fruit and Vegetable Wastes

Dietary Fiber from Underutilized Plant Resources—A Positive Approach for Valorization of Fruit and Vegetable Wastes

Agri-food industries generate enormous amounts of fruit and vegetable processing wastes, which opens up an important research area aimed towards minimizing and managing them efficiently to support zero wastes and/or circular economy concept. These wastes remain underutilized owing to a lack of appro...

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Main Authors: Shehzad Hussain, Ivi Jõudu, Rajeev Bhat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-07-01
Series:Sustainability
Subjects:
dietary fiber
agri-food wastes
by-products
valorization
health benefits
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/13/5401
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spelling doaj-38c8020a1dd84964b677b406f27e24fe2020-11-25T03:34:24ZengMDPI AGSustainability2071-10502020-07-01125401540110.3390/su12135401Dietary Fiber from Underutilized Plant Resources—A Positive Approach for Valorization of Fruit and Vegetable WastesShehzad Hussain0Ivi Jõudu1Rajeev Bhat2ERA Chair for Food (By-) Products Valorisation Technologies (VALORTECH), Estonian University of Life Sciences, Fr.R. Kreutzwaldi 56/5, 51006 Tartu, EstoniaERA Chair for Food (By-) Products Valorisation Technologies (VALORTECH), Estonian University of Life Sciences, Fr.R. Kreutzwaldi 56/5, 51006 Tartu, EstoniaERA Chair for Food (By-) Products Valorisation Technologies (VALORTECH), Estonian University of Life Sciences, Fr.R. Kreutzwaldi 56/5, 51006 Tartu, EstoniaAgri-food industries generate enormous amounts of fruit and vegetable processing wastes, which opens up an important research area aimed towards minimizing and managing them efficiently to support zero wastes and/or circular economy concept. These wastes remain underutilized owing to a lack of appropriate processing technologies vital for their efficient valorization, especially for recovery of health beneficial bioactives like dietary fibers. Dietary fiber finds wide applications in food and pharmaceutical industries and holds high promise as a potential food additive and/or as a functional food ingredient to meet the techno-functional purposes important for developing health-promoting value-added products. Based on this, the present review has been designed to support ‘zero waste’ and ‘waste to wealth’ concepts. In addition, the focus revolves around providing updated information on various sustainability challenges incurred towards valorization of fruit and vegetable wastes for extraction of health promoting dietary fibers.https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/13/5401dietary fiberagri-food wastesby-productsvalorizationhealth benefits
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Ivi Jõudu
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Rajeev Bhat
Dietary Fiber from Underutilized Plant Resources—A Positive Approach for Valorization of Fruit and Vegetable Wastes
Sustainability
dietary fiber
agri-food wastes
by-products
valorization
health benefits
author_facet Shehzad Hussain
Ivi Jõudu
Rajeev Bhat
author_sort Shehzad Hussain
title Dietary Fiber from Underutilized Plant Resources—A Positive Approach for Valorization of Fruit and Vegetable Wastes
title_short Dietary Fiber from Underutilized Plant Resources—A Positive Approach for Valorization of Fruit and Vegetable Wastes
title_full Dietary Fiber from Underutilized Plant Resources—A Positive Approach for Valorization of Fruit and Vegetable Wastes
title_fullStr Dietary Fiber from Underutilized Plant Resources—A Positive Approach for Valorization of Fruit and Vegetable Wastes
title_full_unstemmed Dietary Fiber from Underutilized Plant Resources—A Positive Approach for Valorization of Fruit and Vegetable Wastes
title_sort dietary fiber from underutilized plant resources—a positive approach for valorization of fruit and vegetable wastes
publisher MDPI AG
series Sustainability
issn 2071-1050
publishDate 2020-07-01
description Agri-food industries generate enormous amounts of fruit and vegetable processing wastes, which opens up an important research area aimed towards minimizing and managing them efficiently to support zero wastes and/or circular economy concept. These wastes remain underutilized owing to a lack of appropriate processing technologies vital for their efficient valorization, especially for recovery of health beneficial bioactives like dietary fibers. Dietary fiber finds wide applications in food and pharmaceutical industries and holds high promise as a potential food additive and/or as a functional food ingredient to meet the techno-functional purposes important for developing health-promoting value-added products. Based on this, the present review has been designed to support ‘zero waste’ and ‘waste to wealth’ concepts. In addition, the focus revolves around providing updated information on various sustainability challenges incurred towards valorization of fruit and vegetable wastes for extraction of health promoting dietary fibers.
topic dietary fiber
agri-food wastes
by-products
valorization
health benefits
url https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/13/5401
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