Abstract
The global agriculture industry produces tens of millions of plant waste every year, which environmental issues, yet plant waste is rich in phytochemicals with various health benefits. Here we review plant and food waste as a source of therapeutic compounds with focus on phytochemicals and food by-products. Phytochemicals include phenolics, alkaloids and terpenids. Food by-products include compounds from tomato, carrot, onion, potato, pumpkin, maize, paddy, asparagus, cocoa, tea, coffee, buckwheat, almond, walnut, pistachio, cashew nut, hazelnut, and peanut. Medicinal properties include anticance, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anti-viral, antiproliferative, and treating hyperglycaemia, hypercholesterolemia and cardiovascular diseases.
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