Integral valorisation of tomato by-products towards bioactive compounds recovery: human health benefits

The tomato processing industry is one of the world's most important markets. This industry aims to optimise production, minimise energy costs and waste streams while ensuring high-quality products. This sector produces substantial amounts of by-products frequently disposed of as waste rather than reintroducing them with a new intent into the supply chain. However, these by-products are rich in bioactive compounds (BC), including carotenoids, fibre, which exhibit antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and chemopreventive properties, and cardiovascular protection. Reusing these compounds is favourable to reducing the environmental impact and enables the development of added-value products with various possible uses such as food and feed additives, nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, etc. This review summarises relevant issues towards the recovery and valorisation of BC from industrial tomato by-products within a circular economy context.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Human health benefits

Funding Information: Funding: This research was funded by “MultiBiorefinery.: Estratégias multiuso para a valorização de uma gama alargada de subprodutos agroflorestais e das pescas: Um passo em frente na criação de uma biorrefinaria” financiado pelo Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI-01–0145-FEDER-016403) e pelo Programa Operacional Regional de Lisboa(LISBOA-01–0145- FEDER-016403), na sua componente FEDER e pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P. na componente nacional (SAICTPAC/0040/2015). Funding Information: The authors would like to thank the CCTI group that kindly provided the samples. Also to thank to project Co-promoção n° 016403, “MULTIBIOREFINERY”, supported by Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização and by Programa Operacional Regional de Lisboa, in its component FEDER, and by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, byprojects UID/Multi/50016/2020 and UIDB/04469/2020 administrated by FCT, and by the I&D&I AgriFood XXI project (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000004) co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the scope of Norte2020 (Programa Operacional Regional do Norte 2014/2020) and BioTecNorte operation (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000004) funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the scope of Norte2020 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte.. Furthermore, the author Marta Coelho would like to acknowledge FCT for your PhD grant with the reference [grant number SFRH/BD/111884/2015]. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The AuthorsThe tomato processing industry is one of the world's most important markets. This industry aims to optimise production, minimise energy costs and waste streams while ensuring high-quality products. This sector produces substantial amounts of by-products frequently disposed of as waste rather than reintroducing them with a new intent into the supply chain. However, these by-products are rich in bioactive compounds (BC), including carotenoids, fibre, which exhibit antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and chemopreventive properties, and cardiovascular protection. Reusing these compounds is favourable to reducing the environmental impact and enables the development of added-value products with various possible uses such as food and feed additives, nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, etc. This review summarises relevant issues towards the recovery and valorisation of BC from industrial tomato by-products within a circular economy context.publishersversionpublishe

Structure determination of Split-soret Cytochrome from a Desulfovibrio species isolated from a human abdominal abcess

The determined structure of the split-soret cytochrome (SSC) isolated from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774 (D.d.) revealed a new Heme arrangement, which suggests that this protein constitutes a new cytochrome class.. SSC is a 52.6kDa homodimer containing four hemes at one end of the molecule. In each monomer the two hemes have their edges overlapped within van der Waals contacts. The polypeptide chain of each monomer supplies the sixth ligand to the heme-iron of the other monomer. A similar protein was recently purified from a homologous Desulfovibrio clinical strain isolated from an abdominal wall abscess in human patient2. Crystals of this SSC were grown using vapour diffusion method in the presence of agarose gel. Diffraction data were collected using X-ray synchrotron radiation at the ESRF, beamline, ID 14-1. The structure will be solved by molecular replacement using the structure of the D.d. as a starting model

Monitoring of hazardous substances at Alcantarilha’s WTP, Portugal

A monitoring programme of hazardous substances was implemented in Alcantarilha’s water treatment plant (Algarve, Portugal) since 2002, in addition to the legally established monitoring of standard physical, chemical and microbiological parameters. The objective of this programme was to ensure the drinking water quality regarding the waterborne disease organisms Cryptosporidium, Giardia, Salmonella, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, enterovirus and cyanobacteria, and the potentially harmful chemicals aluminium, cyanotoxins, and disinfection by-products (THM) and their precursors (TOC, DOC, UV254nm, SUVA). Most of these parameters are new and still not regulated by the Portuguese and the European legislation. Data presented in this study refer to the period of August 2002 to October 2003. Results show that, despite the seasonal variations of the raw water quality, concentrations of the hazardous substances in the supplied drinking water were far below the legal standards and the WHO’s and EPA guideline values, demonstrating the high removal efficiencies of this treatment plant

SBR performance for synthetic and fishery wastewater treatment

The evaluation of a SBR performance treating synthetic and fishery wastewater was performed. Without salt addition, COD and ammonia removal rates over than 50% were obtained, indicating the occurrence of the first nitrification step and COD removal. With 0.5% salt, removal rates lower than 60% were attained, for ammonia removal efficiency probably due to ionic strength changes and cellular plasmolysis leading to inactivation of the nitrification organisms. The SBR performance was greater for synthetic wastewater, due to the inherent and controlled characteristics. For both, lower SVI were achieved as a valuable indicator towards the assessment of the aggregated biomass structure.National Council of Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil (CNPq); BIEURAM III ALFA co-operation project (European Commission)

Understanding wine sorption by oak wood: Modeling of wine uptake and characterization of volatile compounds retention

Cooperage wood is a porous material and beverages exchange compounds with it by penetrating into its pores. This work demonstrates the enrichment of wood with wine during ageing. Three oak varieties were cut into different sized chips and immersed in fortified wine and water. Wine and water uptake were measured along time and sorption was described based on a saturation empirical model. Maximum uptake varied among wood types and was independent of particle size, which affected only equilibrium time. Sorption of wine volatiles such as alcohols, esters and acids in wood was shown, which was also dependent on wood type and independent of particle size. Multivariate analysis demonstrated differences and similarities in depletion of wood extractives and sorption of wine volatiles depending on wood variety. Sorption shown in this work demonstrates wood as a vector for aroma recombination, when reused for ageing between different beverages.This work was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the scope of the strategic funding of UID/BIO/04469/2013 unit and COMPETE 2020 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006684) and BioTecNorte operation (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000004) funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the scope of Norte2020 – Programa Operacional Regional do Norte. Fermentum– Engenharia das Fermentações Lda. also participated in co-funding this work. Authors would like to thank Mr. Benoît Verdier and Seguin Moreau for supplying the woods and Mr. Paulo Coutinho and Quinta do Portal for supplying the fortified wine used in this work.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Systematic approach for the development of fruit wines from industrially processed fruit concentrates, including optimization of fermentation parameters, chemical characterization and sensory evaluation

This work presents an optimized approach alongside with the mathematical models describing the production of fruit wines, using fruit concentrates as an alternative to attain the desired ethanol yields and enhance organoleptic and functional properties. Box-Behnken design was used for modeling and optimization of ethanol yield and productivity in banana, orange, cherry and mango concentrates fermentations. Optimization allowed ethanol yields of 72.3±2.08 g.L-1 in orange, 101±1.78 g.L-1 in mango, 66.1±4.02 g.L-1 in cherry and 98.2±7.88 g.L-1 in banana with maximal productivities of 0.4±0.0 g.L-1.h-1, 1.0±0.1 g.L-1.h-1, 1.7±0.2 g.L-1.h-1 and 1.0±0.1 g.L-1.h-1, respectively. Evaluation of total antioxidant activity by FRAP demonstrated fruit wines potential for the development of foods and formulations with functional properties, attaining 22.6±0.46 mmol.L-1 for orange, 7.14±0.77 mmol.L-1 for mango, 28.0±1.84 mmol.L-1 for cherry and 9.54±0.89 mmol.L-1 for banana wines. Characterization of aroma active compounds was performed by GC-MS and sensory evaluation by trained panelists. All fruit wines had good acceptance with cherry wine presenting the highest overall preference, followed by orange, mango and banana wines. Correlation between chemical and sensory properties was established with PLSR2 between analytical and sensory data, which allowed an insight of chemical composition impact in consumer perceived quality.FruitVinegarDRINK QREN Project (ref. 23209), Project “BioInd - Biotechnology and Bioengineering for improved Industrial and Agro-Food processes, REF. NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000028” Cofunded by the Programa Operacional Regional do Norte (ON.2 e O Novo Norte), QREN, FEDER and the FCT Strategic Project Pest-OE/EQB/LA0023/2013