Abstract
Fruits, vegetables, dairy and other food processing wastes are produced in large quantities in fields, farms, markets, processing industry sites and cause a major havoc in their disposal due to their high rate of biodegradation.
Highlights
As per the statistics reported by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year approximately 1.3 billion tons of food is lost or wasted
The anti-oxidative potential of peel extract of Luffa cylindrica was investigated and the results demonstrated a dose dependent inhibition in all the three i.e. FeSO4, H2O2 and CCl4 induced hepatic lipid peroxidation
From the foregoing, it can be safely concluded that agrihorticultural wastes has tremendous potential to be used as source of valuable phytochemicals of nutraceutical importance
Summary
As per the statistics reported by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year approximately 1.3 billion tons of food is lost or wasted. Fruits and vegetables wastes and their by-products are formed in very high amounts during industrial processing and represent a serious problem, as they exert harmful impact on environment. There are many studies that proved that the most abundant by-products of minimal processing of fresh-cut fruit and vegetable are peel and seed and those are reported to contain high amounts of phenolic compounds with antioxidant and antimicrobial properties.
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