Review article: Current research trends in fruit and vegetables wastes and by-products management-Scope and opportunities in the Estonian context
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2020
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Abstrakt
Globally on an annual scale, considerable amounts of fruit and vegetables wastes
(FVW) are generated in the agri-food industrial sector. Costs insured for safe disposal of FVW
remains uneconomical and they can pose a serious environmental hazard if left untreated.
However, FVW have high potential for reuse, recycle and recovery, which is an indication that
there are productive, sustainable and affordable ways of reducing and tackling them at the
industrial levels. Recent years have seen progressive innovative research on FVW management
strategies, which has been developed with an idea of reducing wastes and fully exploiting its
potential. Further, FVW represents a potential source of valuable compounds and bioactive
ingredients. Today, there are many proposed innovative approaches for handling the FVW. These
include reintroducing sub-standard fruit and vegetables (small sized or misshaped fruit and
vegetable) in the market, reusing FVW for soil amendments, composting, or as an animal feed,
and much more. In addition, the extracted bioactive compounds from FVW and by-products can
find wide applications as a natural additive in food, cosmetics and/or in pharmaceutical
applications. Currently, novel cost effective strategies have been developed for effective
valorisation of agri-food wastes and by-products. The field of FVW management is still limited,
thus leaving a wide gap for new ideas, novelty and applications of more efficient green techniques
for complete utilization of agri-food wastes and by-products. Some of the interesting aspects on
wastes and by-products management are discussed in relevance to Europe and in Estonia.
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food wastes and loss, circular economy, waste management, bioactive compounds, livestock feed, articles