Abstract
Apple pomace is a by-product of apple processing industries with low value and thus frequent disposal, although with valuable compounds. Acidified hot water extraction has been suggested as a clean, feasible, and easy approach for the recovery of polyphenols. This type of extraction allowed us to obtain 296 g of extract per kg of dry apple pomace, including 3.3 g of polyphenols and 281 g of carbohydrates. Ultrafiltration and solid-phase extraction using C18 cartridges of the hot water extract suggested that, in addition to the apple native polyphenols detected by ultra-high-pressure liquid chromatography coupled to a diode-array detector and mass spectrometry UHPLC-DAD-ESI-MSn, polyphenols could also be present as complexes with carbohydrates. For the water-soluble polyphenols, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects were observed by inhibiting chemically generated hydroxyl radicals (OH•) and nitrogen monoxide radicals (NO•) produced in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated macrophages. The water-soluble polyphenols, when incorporated into yogurt formulations, were not affected by fermentation and improved the antioxidant properties of the final product. This in vitro research paves the way for agro-food industries to achieve more diversified and sustainable solutions towards their main by-products.
Highlights
The fact that agro-food industrial by-products are generally disposed, often with great expenses and environmental implications, has raised the need for their valuation [1]
Hot water extraction was performed as it represents a cheap, non-toxic, environmentally friendly extraction procedure and is implementable at an industrial scale [5], in contrast to extractions using common organic solvents
When expressing the antioxidant activity with reference to total polyphenols (Table 3), it was observed that polyphenol-isolated Hot Water Extract (HWE) fraction (pHWE) accounted for 92% of the HWE antioxidant activity. These results suggested that most of the compounds responsible for the antioxidant properties of the HWE were recovered after purification using C18 cartridges
Summary
The fact that agro-food industrial by-products are generally disposed, often with great expenses and environmental implications, has raised the need for their valuation [1]. Several strategies for the valuation of apple pomace have been proposed, including its direct use for animal feed, organic acids, enzymes, bioethanol and biogas production by microbial fermentation, or the development of new materials as part of biocomposites [4]. This by-product still presents a significant edible fraction which can be used as a source of valuable components. These may include hydroxycinnamic acids (chlorogenic acid and p-coumaroylquinic acid), flavan-3-ols (monomers such as epicatechin to large polymers known as procyanidins), flavonols (quercetin rutinoside, galactoside, glucoside, xyloside, arabinoside, and rhamnoside derivatives), dihydrochalcones
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