Abstract
Food processing wastes have long been considered as a matter of treatment, minimization, and prevention due to the environmental effects induced by their disposal. Nowadays, food wastes account as a source of valuable nutraceuticals and deal with the prospects of feeding fast growing population in 21st century. This chapter revises the prospects and opportunities in the field of food waste recovery by discussing the definitions of “food waste” and “food loss” in relation to the newly introduced terms of “reutilized by-products” and “wasted by-products.” In addition, it denoted the efforts for the industrial implementation in the field by highlighting the innovation barriers, solutions and current challenges, the differences between conventional and emerging technologies, the application of the Universal Recovery Strategy, as well as the processes of recovering valuable compounds from food waste and as tools to improve the sustainability of food systems.
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