Recent Advances in Recovery of Lycopene from Tomato Waste: A Potent Antioxidant with Endless Benefits |
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| Authors: | Valentina Noemi Madia Daniela De Vita Davide Ialongo Valeria Tudino Alessandro De Leo Luigi Scipione Roberto Di Santo Roberta Costi Antonella Messore |
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| Institution: | 1.Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie del Farmaco, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, p.le Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy; (V.N.M.); (D.I.); (V.T.); (A.D.L.); (L.S.); (R.D.S.); (A.M.);2.Department of Environmental Biology, “Sapienza” University of Rome, p.le Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy; |
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| Abstract: | Growing attention to environmental protection leads food industries to adopt a model of “circular economy” applying safe and sustainable technologies to recover, recycle and valorize by-products. Therefore, by-products become raw material for other industries. Tomato processing industry produces significant amounts of by-products, consisting of skins and seeds. Tomato skin is very rich in lycopene, and from its seeds, high nutritional oil can be extracted. Alternative use of the two fractions not only could cut disposal costs but also allow one to extract bioactive compounds and an oil with a high nutritional value. This review focused on the recent advance in extraction of lycopene, whose beneficial effects on health are widely recognized. |
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| Keywords: | lycopene carotenoids food waste nutraceuticals supercritical fluid extraction pulsed electric fields treatment enzyme-assisted extraction supercritical fluid extraction ultrasonic-assisted extraction microwave-assisted extraction |
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