Recent application of jackfruit waste in food and material engineering: A review

Abstract

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) processing industries generate considerable amount of solid wastes in the form of peels, seeds and latex which leads environmental pollution these waste can be utilized as an attractive source for different sustainable products. Peel has a potential and alternative source of commercial pectin, activated carbon preparation, adsorbent to remove the various harmful dyes and metal ions from aqueous water and also utilized as a sustainable fuel as a bio hydrogen, biogas and ethanol production. Jackfruit seed flour having potentiality to replace wheat flour (25–30%) in bakery industry and it can also use as substrate for the production of red pigments which can be used as colorant in textile industry also useful for the preparation of Fast Dissolving Tablets. Jackfruit latex utilized as the cementing medium, irrigation solution, denture cleaning solution, resin and other future dental filling material used as cost effective material.By-product recovery from jackfruit wastes not only can improve the overall economics of processing units but also reduce the problem of environmental pollution considerably. This review demonstrates the potential utilization of jackfruit waste.