Valuable By-products From Processing Agricultural Biomass Waste

Agricultural crops are highly valuable and nutritive substances highly utilized in the food and beverage industry.

The natural antioxidants, bioactive compounds, functional lipids and oil-soluble ingredients, natural sweeteners, gum and stabilizers, natural colorants, C02, bioethanol, and biofuels are some of the most important ingredients and compounds which can be produced through further biomass waste processing through an enzymatic process, fermentation &/or other hybrid biotechnological processes.

However, the main parts of the crops are wasted without any proper plan to recover and/or convert them to other possible ingredients and products.

This is mainly due to inefficient processing plans and inadequate infrastructure that provide a robust plan for the Food & Beverage (F&B) manufacturers to recover the valuable ingredient from the biomass waste.

Benefits of Processing Agricultural Biomass Waste

In the last decade, world hunger facts and statistics indicate how many people are suffering from the lack of food, especially high-quality and nutritious foods. This must be the main reason that all companies start thinking about down and upstream cost-effective processes that allow them to look for partnerships with academia and startup companies to review all possible options to convert their biomass waste to highly valuable by-products.

Such a strategy becomes very…