Adding Value to Fruit Wastes: Extraction, Properties, and Industrial Applications

Sneh Punia Bangar · Parmjit S Panesar

jun 2024 · Elsevier

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"Value Addition of Fruit Wastes: Extraction, Properties, and Applications provides the latest technologies used in fruit waste to extract, isolate, and characterize functional, active compounds and their diversified pharmacological, food, agricultural, and industrial applications. Divided in 3 sections, the book explores emerging technologies for extraction of functional components, thoroughly discusses value-added components and works as a guide to its applications. The book also covers fruit wastes for extracting starch to provide more cereal crops available as food, besides supporting the efficient utilization of fruit wastes to bring many more opportunities for extraction of functional components in a sustainable manner for food applications. Written by a team of experts in the field, this book provides technicians, researchers, food technology experts, food industry personnel, and academia with value addition to the fruit waste and a lot more opportunities for extraction of functional components in a sustainable manner for food applications. - Covers valorization approaches of fruit waste for starch, protein, fibers, and phenolics - Includes novel green techniques for the extraction of the functional compounds - Brings industrial applications of value-added functional compounds

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Sneh Punia Bangar, Ph.D., is a researcher in the Department of Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences at Clemson University, United States. From 2017 to 2020, she worked as Assistant Professor (C) in the Department of Food Science and Technology, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa. Her research interest includes the extraction and functional characterization of functional foods, starches, modified starches, biopolymers, nanocomposite films/coatings. She has presented her research at various national and international conferences. She has authored or co-authored more than 100 research/review articles, one book series, 2 authored books, 5 edited books, one reference book, 35 book chapters, 20 conference proceedings/seminars, and 6 Guest Editor of Journals special issues. She is the recipient of the GSG Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant (2022) and CAFLS Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award (2023) at Clemson University, USA. Dr. Bangar has been listed (2023) in "World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists," published by Stanford University, USA.

Parmjit S. Panesar is currently working as Professor & Dean (Planning & Development), Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology Longowal, Punjab. He has more than 25 years of teaching & research experience and also served in administrative positions as Dean and Head, Department of Food Engineering & Technology, SLIET Longowal. In 2005, he has been awarded BOYSCAST fellowship by Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India, to carry out advance research at Chembiotech labs, University of Birmingham Research Park, UK.