Abstract
Currently, the food industry is looking for alternatives to synthetic additives in processed food products, so research investigating new sources of compounds with high biological activity is worthwhile and becoming more common. There are many different types of vegetables that contain bioactive compounds, and additional features of some vegetables include uses as natural colorants and antioxidants. In this sense, and due to the special composition of beetroot, the use of this vegetable allows for the extraction of a large number of compounds with special interest to the meat industry. This includes colorants (betalains), antioxidants (betalains and phenolic compounds), and preservatives (nitrates), which can be applied for the reformulation of meat products, thus limiting the number and quantity of synthetic additives added to these foods and, at the same time, increase their shelf-life. Despite all these benefits, the application of beetroot or its products (extracts, juice, powder, etc.) in the meat industry is very limited, and the body of available research on beetroot as an ingredient is scarce. Therefore, in this review, the main biologically active compounds present in beetroot, the implications and benefits that their consumption has for human health, as well as studies investigating the use beetroot in the reformulation of meat and meat products are presented in a comprehensible manner.
Highlights
The food industry, and the meat industry, is of vital importance both from a social and economic point of view
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Beetroot is an exceptional source of biologically active compounds of great nutritional, health, and technological value. These compounds include betalains, phenolic compounds, and inorganic nitrate, which are of special interest for the meat industry due to their functional and technological properties, such as colorants, antioxidants, and preservatives
Summary
The food industry, and the meat industry, is of vital importance both from a social and economic point of view. There is a global tendency for the increased consumption of functional foods due to consumers who are looking for a safer way to improve their health [10], which has a strong influence on the meat processing industry’s practices To this regard, during the last several decades, the replacement of synthetic additives with natural bioactive compounds was a significant endeavor studied by the scientific community and the industry [4,11,12]. It is well known that residues from vegetable processing normally still contain a large amount of bioactive compounds, which offers an inexpensive source of high-value compounds for the food and meat industry [4,13,19] In this regard, red beetroot (Beta vulgaris ssp.), beetroot products (juices, powder, extracts, etc.), and other residues generated during processing can be considered an excellent source of raw materials that can serve as functional ingredients (antioxidants and/or colorants) [8]. Compounds obtained fromaims beetroot that are great interest to the meat industry, this article to generate an of extensive and comprehensive review ofthe theimplications compounds that the intake of thesethat compounds on human health, as wellthe as implications review the studies have obtained from beetroot are of greathas interest to the meat industry, that thethat intake of applied beetroot or extracted compounds from beetroot to increase the stability and safety of meat these compounds has on human health, as well as review the studies that have applied beetroot or products.compounds from beetroot to increase the stability and safety of meat products
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