Abstract
There are significant environmental, economic and social factors favoring the reutilization of fruit and vegetable processing co-products in farm animal nutrition. Current evidence shows that fruit and vegetable processing co-products can be effectively used in farm animal nutrition as functional feed ingredients for the production of food products of improved quality. These ingredients comply with consumer requests for the production of “clean,” “natural” and “eco/green” label food products. The main parameters affecting extensive application of fruit and vegetable processing by-/co-products as functional feed ingredients in livestock nutrition are related to animal factors, logistics, and commercial value. Further research is needed to enable the commercial application of these products to livestock nutrition.
Highlights
There has been great social and environmental pressure for the efficient reutilization of agricultural industry residues [1,2] due to the global intensification of food production that has led to Agriculture 2015, 5 the creation of large quantities of food co-products and wastes [3]
The aim of this study is to provide a brief overview of the recent knowledge on the application of fruit and vegetable co-/by-products as functional feed ingredients in farm animal nutrition for the production of food products with improved characteristics
This overview highlighted the current developments on the application of fruit and vegetable processing co-products in farm animal nutrition as functional feed ingredients
Summary
There has been great social and environmental pressure for the efficient reutilization of agricultural industry residues [1,2] due to the global intensification of food production that has led to Agriculture 2015, 5 the creation of large quantities of food co-products and wastes [3]. Utilization of agroindustrial by-/co-products in farm animal nutrition reduces the environmental impact of the food industry and improves profitability and valorization of the agricultural by-products since feeding food residue to livestock is an efficient way to upgrade low quality materials into high quality foods [4] This is compliant with the current legislation that strongly encourages the food industry to find new end-uses for by-products [5,6]. The aim of this study is to provide a brief overview of the recent knowledge on the application of fruit and vegetable co-/by-products as functional feed ingredients in farm animal nutrition for the production of food products with improved characteristics.
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