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Sustainable and Health-Protecting Food Ingredients from Bioprocessed Food by-Products and Wastes

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Minervini, Fabio, Comitini, Francesca, De Boni, Annalisa, Fiorino, Giuseppina Maria, Rodrigues, Francisca, Tlais, Ali Zein Alabiden, Carafa, Ilaria, De Angelis, Maria·2022·Sustainability

Abstract

Dietary inadequacy and nutrition-related non-communicable diseases (N-NCDs) represent two main issues for the whole society, urgently requesting solutions from researchers, policy-makers, and other stakeholders involved in the health and food system. Food by-products and wastes (FBPW) represent a global problem of increasing severity, widely recognized as an important unsustainability hotspot, with high socio-economic and environmental costs. Yet, recycling and up-cycling of FBPW to produce functional foods could represent a solution to dietary inadequacy and risk of N-NCDs onset. Bioprocessing of FBPW with selected microorganisms appears to be a relatively cheap strategy to yield molecules (or rather molecules mixtures) that may be used to fortify/enrich food, as well as to formulate dietary supplements. This review, conjugating human health and sustainability in relation to food, describes the state-of-the-art of the use of yeasts, molds, and lactic acid bacteria for producing value-added compounds from FBPW. Challenges related to FBPW bioprocessing prior to their use in food regard will be also discussed: (i) loss of product functionality upon scale-up of recovery process; (ii) finding logistic solutions to the intrinsic perishability of the majority of FBPW; (iii) inserting up-cycling of FBPW in an appropriate legislative framework; (iv) increasing consumer acceptability of food and dietary supplements derived from FBPW.

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    “Whey Leuconostoc mesenteroides, Lactobacillus jensenii, Lactobacillus acidophilus Antioxidant, anti-inflammatory [166]”

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    Table 1 (indexed under §4, page unavailable) lists whey fermented with the three named bacteria and reports increased antioxidant activity. It does not report an anti-inflammatory effect for that whey; the paper discusses anti-inflammatory effects for other fermented materials. (LLM, conf=0.91)

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    “Yogurt whey Lacticaseibacillus casei Increased production of lactic acid, hydrating properties [166]”

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    Section 3.3 (page unavailable) says yogurt whey is an excellent source for lactic acid production by L. casei, supporting that part of the claim. It does not attribute hydrating properties to the fermented whey; its separate discussion of fatty-acid hydration concerns a different process. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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Authors
Minervini, F., Comitini, F., De Boni, A., Fiorino, G. M., Rodrigues, F., Tlais, A. Z. A., Carafa, I., & De Angelis, M.
Affiliations
  • University of Bari Aldo Moro (IT)
  • Marche Polytechnic University (IT)
  • Dipartimento di Scienze del Suolo, della Pianta e degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Via Amendola 165/a, 70126 Bari, Italy
  • Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT)
  • Rede de Química e Tecnologia (PT)
Corresponding author
Minervini, Fabio
Venue
Sustainability
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2022-11-17
Volume
14
Issue
22
Pages
15283
ISSN
2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4309458243
Cited by
31
References
167
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3
FWCI
1.63
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Bari Aldo Moro) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Università Politecnica delle Marche (Università Politecnica delle Marche) (submittedVersion)
  • Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Open Research (University of Surrey) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • Knowledge hub on Nutrition and Food Security (696295)
  • JPI HDHL (696295)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Hydrolysis and Bioactive Peptides
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food and Agricultural Sciences
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Probiotics and Fermented Foods
Keywords
upcycling, bioprocessing, functional food ingredients, dietary supplements, yeast, molds, lactic acid bacteria, food fortification, nutrition-related non-communicable diseases, scale-up, perishability, legislation, consumer acceptance

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