Abstract
Foods are composed of numerous chemicals, each of them work individually or synergistically inside the living organism for a specific reaction supporting the life processes. To date, the efficacy of these chemicals in industrial processes has been explored to a limited extent. In fact, chemicals derived from food have great potential to be used in multi-disciplinary sciences and in numerous applications. Synthetic chemicals might be replaced by the natural resources in the future which will also reduce the environmental impact of hazardous and toxic chemicals. The present article gathers a few examples of chemicals derived from food or related materials and shows how worthy they are in various fields, ranging from radiopharmaceuticals to alternative mining of precious metals. In a nutshell, the article puts forward a few simple ways through which research may adjoin the greener mandates and help in maintaining the sustainability of our environment.
Highlights
Green Chemistry is the youngest branch of science, which took birth in 1990 from an US environmental law stating that the first choice for preventing pollution is to design industrial processes that do not lead to waste production
It might be assumed that the behaviour of mushroom species towards another radioisotope 137Cs would be similar to that of 134Cs, making mushroom a potent bio-indicator of radioactive fall-outs. It may be concluded with the fact that it’s the time to go back to the nature in search of naturally occurring entities, which would pave a new way in green chemistry research
The trail of works started with utilization of orange peels from which an essential bioflavonoid, hesperidin was extracted and studied as a radio-pharmaceutical-ligand for therapeutic radioisotope, 88Zr
Summary
Foods are composed of numerous chemicals, each of them work individually or synergistically inside the living organism for a specific reaction supporting the life processes. The efficacy of these chemicals in industrial processes has been explored to a limited extent. Chemicals derived from food have great potential to be used in multi-disciplinary sciences and in numerous applications. The present article gathers a few examples of chemicals derived from food or related materials and shows how worthy they are in various fields, ranging from radiopharmaceuticals to alternative mining of precious metals. The article puts forward a few simple ways through which research may adjoin the greener mandates and help in maintaining the sustainability of our environment
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