The Distance Between Food Waste and Food By-Products Is Connected by a Road Called Recovery

Definitions of “food waste” & “food loss” Food supply chains begin from the primary agricultural phase, proceed with manufacturing and retail, and end with household consumption. During this life cycle, food is lost or wasted because of technological, economic and/or societal reasons. The definitions of “food waste” and “food loss”within the supply chain have been…

Should I Choose Conventional or Emerging Technologies for Food Waste Recovery?

Today, researchers consider food wastes as a source of valuable compounds such as dietary fibers, flavonoids, polyphenols, glucosinolates, anthocyanins, proteins and enzymes. This ambition generated by the fact that the current processing methodologies allow the recovery of target compounds and their re-utilization inside food chain as additives, supplements or food fortification. However, the labelled products…

Food Waste Recovery: Ways Out

Today, consumers are more aware of risks confronting them and increasingly display a preference for natural entities, which have been generated without human intervention. In addition, they require environmental-friendly food products that are closely tailored to their individual preferences and well-being. These aspects support the promotion of the so-called “green” marketing and quality assurance concepts,…

Recovering Food Waste. Source: Wikimedia

Food Waste Recovery Trends in 2016: Research, Innovation, Commercialization and Funding

Research Over the last years, the number of published studies dealing with the valorization of processing by-products has been rapidly increased. This is proved by the numerous special issues organized by important Journals, such as these organized by Food Research International: (i) Recovery and utilization of valuable compounds from food processing by-products and (ii) Byproducts from agri-food industry: new strategies…