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October 2013

VALORIZATION FRUIT AND VEGETABLE BY-PRODUCTS

IN FOOD INDUSTRY

Every kind of fruit or vegetable has got by-products and they are potantial to new product sources before go to dustbin!

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For example, zest and albedo are equal to about 1/3 of the raw material in citrus fruits. Citrus fruit peels may be used in food industry after various processes and treatments. For instance, they are used in paste and cake production, jam production, and production of fruit aroma, fruit extract or pectin production. Another peel is equal to about 12 % of the raw material in apple. Peel of apple is using to produce pectin like lemon peel.(1)

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Broccoli sales in the market with whole body but usually using 25% of the body in to frozen industry or fresh to home consumption. The rest of 75% broccoli stems C vitamin content within reach to 186 mg/100 g. However orange C vitamin content is 50 mg/100 g. Stem of broccoli can be pass drying process and after it can be use instant soup product.(1)

FOOD PROCESS

Raw material - Fruit & Vegetables

storage cleaning cuting

reception removing leaves slicing

calibration removing seeds filling

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elimination with quality criteria of

clientsBy-products

By-products of Fruit & Vegetables are peel, zest ,albedo, seed, stem, leaves, pulp etc. The part of fruit and vegetables do not used in the main production and these are not waste yet in the process.

peeling

Example of by-products and their potential valorization

Apple juice process

Pulp Seeds

Source of pectin production

Source of Quercetin(flavonoide, antioxydant)

By-products

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Peel

Example of by-products and their potential valorization

Orange juice process

Source of bakery industry ingredients

By-products

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Peel

Source of candy industry ingredients

Source of flavor industry

Example of by-products and their potential valorization

Broccoli frozen or canned food process

Source of invert sugar production

Source of soup production

By-products

Source of garnish for canned food or frozen food industry

Stem of broccoli has got high amount of C vitamin and invert sugar

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Example of by-products and their potential valorization

(3)

Corn frozen or cannedfood process

By-products

Production of tea or pharmacological product for treatment of various disorders of urinary tract infection or kidney

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Corn leavesCorn silk

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CREAFEM FOOD CONSULTING® is partner of "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations : SAVE FOOD: Global Initiative on Food Losses and Waste Reduction"

CREAFEM FOOD CONSULTING® invites you to join the group of « 1.3 billion ton per year food waste looking for future! Food By-products Exchange Platform »The aim of this project-platform create networking between food producer and help them to create new value-added product with food by-products such as peels, cores, seeds, pulp, leaves, stem or sprouts, the part of the fruit and vegetable not used in the main production activity. http://www.linkedin.com/groups/13-BILLION-TON-PER-YEAR-5189650/about

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References for the presentation : 1) “Utilization of Food By-products In The Food Industry” by Muge Debrun. The Fifth International Congress On Food Industry-New Aspects On Food Processing 1995.2) Global Food Losses and Food Waste: Save Food at Interpack 2011 Düsseldorf, Germany, by J. Gustavsson, C. Cederberg, U. Sonesson (SIK Sweden) et R. van Otterdijk, A. Meybeck (FAO Italy).3) Photo by Photofarmer-Flickr