TY - JOUR
T1 - Valorization of fruit wastes for circular bioeconomy
T2 - Current advances, challenges, and opportunities
AU - Leong, Yoong Kit
AU - Chang, Jo Shu
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (grants MOST 110-2221-E-029-005, 110-3116-F-006 -003, 110-2221-E-029 -004 -MY3, and 110-2621-M-029 -001).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - The demands for fruits and processed products have significantly increased following the surging human population growth and rising health awareness. However, an enormous amount of fruit waste is generated during their production life-cycle due to the inedible portion and perishable nature, which become a considerable burden to the environment. Embracing the concept of “circular economy”, these fruit wastes represent sustainable and renewable resources and can be integrated into biorefinery platforms for valorization into a wide range of high-value products. To fully realize the potential of fruit waste in circular bioeconomy and provide insights on future commercial-scale applications, this review presented the recycling and utilization of fruit wastes in various applications, particularly focusing on pollutant bioremediation, renewable energy and biofuel production, biosynthesis of bioactive compounds and low-cost microbial growth media. Furthermore, the challenges of efficient valorization of fruit wastes were discussed and future prospects were proposed.
AB - The demands for fruits and processed products have significantly increased following the surging human population growth and rising health awareness. However, an enormous amount of fruit waste is generated during their production life-cycle due to the inedible portion and perishable nature, which become a considerable burden to the environment. Embracing the concept of “circular economy”, these fruit wastes represent sustainable and renewable resources and can be integrated into biorefinery platforms for valorization into a wide range of high-value products. To fully realize the potential of fruit waste in circular bioeconomy and provide insights on future commercial-scale applications, this review presented the recycling and utilization of fruit wastes in various applications, particularly focusing on pollutant bioremediation, renewable energy and biofuel production, biosynthesis of bioactive compounds and low-cost microbial growth media. Furthermore, the challenges of efficient valorization of fruit wastes were discussed and future prospects were proposed.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127459
DO - 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127459
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35700899
AN - SCOPUS:85132522516
SN - 0960-8524
VL - 359
JO - Bioresource technology
JF - Bioresource technology
M1 - 127459
ER -
