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Food and Agricultural Byproducts as Important Source of Valuable Nutraceuticals by Chukwuebuka Egbuna (editor), Barbara Sawicka (editor), Johra Khan (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Food and agricultural by-products are leftovers or wastes from parts of foods, fruits, vegetables and animal sources which are obtained after processing. Agricultural by-products includes peels and rinds from citrus fruits, pineapple, mango, and banana. Other notable ones are pomace from apple, olive, red beet, and those from wine making. Also, whey from milk, straws, hulls, and brans from grains are among top agricultural by-products. These by-products often impact the environment and the social-economic sectors when they are disposed. But with the recent advances in biotechnology and scientific research, scientists have found usefulness in some of these byproducts as sources of valuable nutraceuticals, a term used to refer to chemical entities present in foods that has the propensity to impact health for disease prevention and treatment. This book entitled ‘ Food and agricultural by-products as important source of valuable nutraceuticals ’ presents detailed information about major agricultural byproducts that are rich in nutraceuticals. The nature and the type of nutraceuticals that they contains and their health promoting benefits were presented. The editors and chapter contri

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Author

Chukwuebuka Egbuna (editor), Barbara Sawicka (editor), Johra Khan (editor)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing AG

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030987596

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Chemistry, Engineering