Main description:

Food and agricultural by-products are leftovers or wastes from parts of foods, fruits, vegetables and animal sources which are obtained after processing. Agricultural by-products includes peels and rinds from citrus fruits, pineapple, mango, and banana. Other notable ones are pomace from apple, olive, red beet, and those from wine making. Also, whey from milk, straws, hulls, and brans from grains are among top agricultural by-products. These by-products often impact the environment and the social-economic sectors when they are disposed. But with the recent advances in biotechnology and scientific research, scientists have found usefulness in some of these byproducts as sources of valuable nutraceuticals, a term used to refer to chemical entities present in foods that has the propensity to impact health for disease prevention and treatment. This book entitled 'Food and agricultural by-products as important source of valuable nutraceuticals' presents detailed information about major agricultural byproducts that are rich in nutraceuticals. The nature and the type of nutraceuticals that they contains and their health promoting benefits were presented. The editors and chapter contributors are renowned experts from key institutions around the globe. This book will be useful to students, teachers, food chemists, nutritionists, nutritional biochemists, food biotechnologists among others.

Key features

O Highlights the health promotion benefits of nutraceuticals

O Presents information on agrifood by-products as sources of nutraceuticals

O Discusses functional nutraceuticals from peels, rinds, pomace, hull, bran etc

Contents:

Chapter 1: The Role of Nutraceuticals as Food and Medicine, Types and Sources

Abhay Prakash Mishra, Neeti Srivastav, Anita Singh, Manisha Nigam, Raffaele Pezzani, Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Chukwuemelie Zedech Uche and Johra Khan

abhaypharmachemhnbgu@gmail.com

Chapter 2: Potato Peels as a Source of Nutraceutics

Barbara Sawicka, Dominika Skiba, and Piotr Barbas

barbara.sawicka@up.lublin.pl

Chapter 3: Red Beet Pomace as a Source of Nutraceuticals

Muhammad Afzaal, Farhan Saeed, Aftab Ahmed, Muhammad Armghan Khalid, Fakhar Islam, Ali Ikram, Muzamal Hussain, Faisal Fareed, Waqas Anjum

muhammadafzaal@gcuf.edu.pk

Chapter 4: Mango Peels as a Source of Nutraceuticals

Intan Soraya Che Sulaiman, Azham Mohamad and Isharudin Md. Isa

chesoraya007@yahoo.com

Chapter 5: Apple Pomace as a Source of Nutraceuticals

Shahira M. Ezzat, Maha Salama, Dina El Kersh, Mohamed Salem

shahira.ezzat@pharma.cu.edu.eg

Chapter 6: Olive Pomace as a Source of Nutraceuticals

Selma Hamimed and Abdelwaheb Chatti

alma.hamimed@fsb.rnu.tn

Chapter 7: Orange Peel as a Source of Nutraceuticals

Anum Nazir, Nizwa Itrat, Aleena Shahid, Zain Mushtaq, Surajudeen Abiola Abdulrahman, Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Babatunde Oluwafemi Adetuyi, Johra Khan, Chukwuemelie Zedech Uche, Pere-Ebi Yabrade Toloyai

Anum.Nazir@tuf.edu.pk

Chapter 8: Pineapple Fruit Peels as a Source of Nutraceuticals

O.C.U. Adumanya

oadumanya@gmail.com

Chapter 9: Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam) Byproducts as a Source of Nutraceuticals

Pass Chidiebere Chijindu

passchijindu@gmail.com

Chapter 10: Pawpaw Peels as a Source of Nutraceuticals

Odoh Uchenna Estella, Chukwuma Micheal Onyegbunam, Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Theodora Mba, Peculiar Feenna Onyekere

uchenna.odoh@unn.edu.ng

Chapter 11: Nutritional and Nutraceutical Potentials of Residual Cakes from Seeds of Moringa (Moringa oleifera L.), Sacha Inchi (Plukenetia volubilis L.) and Hibiscus Flower (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) after Oil Extraction

Dairon Iglesias Guevara, Claudia Chavez Hernandez, Sirley Gonzalez Laime, Ariel Martinez Garcia, Juan Abreu Payrol

japayrol@gmail.com

Chapter 12: Whey Protein from Milk as a Source of Nutraceuticals

Chinaza Godswill Awuchi

awuchichinaza@gmail.com

Chapter 13: Corn Byproducts as a Source of Nutraceuticals

Santwana Palai and Shyam Sundar Kesh

palaisantwana@gmail.com

Chapter 14: Sorghum Byproducts as a Source of Nutraceuticals

Daniel Okwudili Nnamani, Pascal Chukwuemeka Aleke and Peculiar Feenna Onyekere

peculiar.onyekere@unn.edu.ng

Chapter 15: Rice Husk as a Source of Nutraceuticals

Kirankumar Shivasharanappa, Jayashree V. Hanchinalmath, Sooraj Shivakumar, Sonal Kudva, Sathwik C. Jain, Manoj Girish, D. G. W. M. H. M. M. Wijekoon, Rhishika Dutta, T. Pramod, Sharangouda J. Patil

kkwanegaon@gmail.com

Chapter 16: Byproducts of Groundnut as Source of Nutraceuticals

Neelma Munir, Maria Hasnain, Maria Hanif, Surajudeen Abiola Abdulrahman, Chukwuebuka Egbuna

neelma.munir@yahoo.com

Chapter 17: Banana Peel as a Source of Nutraceuticals

Babatunde Oluwafemi Adetuyi, Adebanke E. Ogundipe, Olubanke Olujoke Ogunlana, Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Odoh Uchenna Estella, Abhay Prakash Mishra, Muhammad Akram, Raghu Ram Achar

badetuyi@gmail.com