Supercritical technology in the reverse engineering context: formulation of new products from citrus agro-industrial residues

• Grant number: 21/01008-1
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: December 01, 2021
• End date: April 30, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Food Science and Technology - Food Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Julian Martínez
• Grantee: Julian Martínez
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos (FEA). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Arthur Luiz Baião Dias ; Caroline Joy Steel ; Grazielle Náthia Neves ; Juliane Viganó ; Juliano Lemos Bicas ; Maurício Ariel Rostagno

Abstract

Food waste is one of the greatest actual global problems. Around one third of the world's food production is lost along the production, distribution, and consumption. In the case of fruits, this waste reaches 50%. In this context, processing agro-industrial by-products, following the principles of circular economy and reverse engineering, is clear trend for the future of food industry. The Laboratory of High Pressure in Food Engineering (LAPEA) has focused its activities on the investigation of high-pressure processes to obtain value-added products from natural sources. Results have been showing that food industry by-products are important sources of bioactive compounds, and high-pressure technologies are viable alternatives for the recovery and purification of these compounds by means of methods that are clean and harmless to the environment and to the product itself. Nevertheless, the technical and economic viability of such processes depend on their intensification and integration between themselves and to other operations. This project deals with the recovery of residues from the citrus chain, one of the most important in the State of São Paulo. The citrus' rinds and essential oils are rich in compounds with nutritional, pharmaceutic, and technologic potential such as fibers, pectin, terpenes, phenolics and pigments. High-pressure processing techniques like supercritical fluid and pressurized liquid extraction, fractionation by pressure reduction, adsorption, membrane separation and supercritical drying will be performed in integrated ways to obtain products with potential application in the formulation of processed foods. The processing conditions will be evaluated in terms of yield of target compounds, products' physical and chemical properties, processing kinetics and economic viability. Applications in food product formulation will be searched in partnerships with research groups and industries. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

HATAMI, TAHMASB; CIDREIRA, ANNE CAROLYNE MENDONCA; LINAN, LAMIA ZUNIGA; RODRIGUES, JORGE; PINHEIRO, IVANEI FERREIRA; VIGANO, JULIANE; CHINELATTO, MARCELO APARECIDO; JARDINI, ANDRE LUIZ; MARTINEZ, JULIAN; MEI, LUCIA HELENA INNOCENTINI. Valorization of Acai Bagasse into Cellulose Nanofibers/Sodium Alginate Aerogels. WASTE AND BIOMASS VALORIZATION, v. N/A, p. 17-pg., 2023-09-26. (18/18722-6, 21/01008-1)

MOREIRA, RAFAEL CHELALA; DE MELO, RAYANNE PRISCILLA FRANCA; MARTINEZ, JULIAN; MAROSTICA JUNIOR, MARIO ROBERTO; PASTORE, GLAUCIA MARIA; ZORN, HOLGER; BICAS, JULIANO LEMOS. Supercritical CO2 as a Valuable Tool for Aroma Technology. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, v. 71, n. 24, p. 12-pg., 2023-06-08. (21/01008-1, 15/13320-9, 20/06814-3, 17/11245-5, 15/50333-1, 19/13465-8, 18/11069-5)

CHANI-PAUCAR, LARRY OSCAR; DOS SANTOS, LUANA C.; SCOPEL, EUPIDIO; TORRES-MAYANGA, PAULO CESAR; HATAMI, TAHMASB; MARTINEZ, JULIAN. Supercritical fluid extraction of bioactive compounds from quinilla (Manilkara bidentata) seed. JOURNAL OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS, v. 193, p. 10-pg., 2022-12-28. (21/01008-1)

OLIVEIRA, AMANDA MELLISSA BEZERRA; VIGANO, JULIANE; SANCHES, VITOR L.; ROSTAGNO, MAURICIO ARIEL; MARTINEZ, JULIAN. Extraction of potential bioactive compounds from industrial Tahiti lime (Citrus latifolia Tan.) by-product using pressurized liquids and ultrasound-assisted extraction. Food Research International, v. 157, p. 10-pg., 2022-05-24. (19/13496-0, 20/15774-5, 21/01008-1)