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Recent Advances in Recovery of Lycopene from Tomato Waste: A Potent Antioxidant with Endless Benefits.

Valentina Noemi MadiaDaniela De VitaDavide IalongoValeria TudinoAlessandro De LeoLuigi ScipioneRoberto Di SantoRoberta CostiAntonella Messore
Published in: Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (2021)
Growing attention to environmental protection leads food industries to adopt a model of "circular economy" applying safe and sustainable technologies to recover, recycle and valorize by-products. Therefore, by-products become raw material for other industries. Tomato processing industry produces significant amounts of by-products, consisting of skins and seeds. Tomato skin is very rich in lycopene, and from its seeds, high nutritional oil can be extracted. Alternative use of the two fractions not only could cut disposal costs but also allow one to extract bioactive compounds and an oil with a high nutritional value. This review focused on the recent advance in extraction of lycopene, whose beneficial effects on health are widely recognized.
Keyphrases
  • anti inflammatory
  • oxidative stress
  • human health
  • healthcare
  • public health
  • fatty acid
  • municipal solid waste
  • working memory
  • life cycle
  • heavy metals
  • soft tissue
  • health information