Development of Sustainable Novel Foods and Beverages Based on Coffee By-Products for Chronic Diseases

The obesity epidemic and associated chronic diseases are often attributed to modern lifestyles. The term “lifestyle” however, ignores broader social, economic, and environmental determinants while inadvertently “blaming the victim.” Seen more eclectically, lifestyle encompasses distal, medial, and proximal determinants. Hence any analysis of causality should include all these levels. The term “anthropogens,” or “…man-made environments, their by-products and/or lifestyles encouraged by these, some of which may be detrimental to human health” provides a monocausal focus for chronic diseases similar to that which the germ theory afforded infectious diseases. Anthropogens have in common an ability to induce a form of chronic, low-level systemic inflammation (“metaflammation”). A review of anthropogens, based on inducers with a metaflammatory association, is conducted here, together with the evidence for each in connection with a number of chronic diseases. This suggests a broader view of lifestyle and a focus on determinants, rather than obesity and lifestyleper seas the specific causes of modern chronic disease. Under such an analysis, obesity is seen more as “a canary in a mineshaft” signaling problems in the broader environment, suggesting that population obesity management should be focused more upstream if chronic diseases are to be better managed.

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Tomato plant leaves: From by-products to the management of enzymes in chronic diseases

Industrial Crops and Products ◽

10.1016/j.indcrop.2016.09.036 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 94 ◽

pp. 621-629 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

María Figueiredo-González ◽

Patrícia Valentão ◽

Paula B. Andrade

Keyword(s):

Chronic Diseases ◽

Tomato Plant ◽

Plant Leaves ◽

By Products

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Novel Foods and Neophobia: Evidence from Greece, Cyprus, and Uganda

Resources ◽

10.3390/resources11010002 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 2

Author(s):

Paraskevi Tsimitri ◽

Anastasios Michailidis ◽

Efstratios Loizou ◽

Fani Th Mantzouridou ◽

Konstantinos Gkatzionis ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Circular Economy ◽

Cheese Whey ◽

Comparative Approach ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Novel Food ◽

Novel Foods ◽

Promising Strategy ◽

Effect Of Food ◽

By Products

The exploitation of agri-food industrial by-products to produce novel foods is a promising strategy in the framework of policies promoting the bioeconomy and circular economy. Within this context, this study aims to examine the effect of food neophobia and food technology neophobia in the acceptance of a novel food by consumers (through an EU research project: Sybawhey). As a case study, a functional yogurt-like product was developed by synergistic processing of halloumi cheese whey, enriched with banana by-products. The present study contributes to the literature by examining consumers’ perceptions for such a novel food, identifying the profile of potential final users and classifying them according to their “neophobic tendency”. A comparative approach among groups from Greece, Cyprus and Uganda was adopted to explore whether respondents have a different attitude towards this novel yogurt. Results suggest that there is a potential for increasing consumption of novel foods derived by agri-food industrial by-products, but more information about the importance of using by-products are required to enhance consumers’ acceptance of this novel food. Such results may be useful to policy makers, aiming to promote strategies towards the effective reuse of food outputs leading to the manufacture of sustainable novel foods.

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Aquaculture and agriculture-by products as sustainable sources of omega-3 fatty acids in the food industry

eFood ◽

10.53365/efood.k/144603 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jian Bo Xiao ◽

Francisco Barba ◽

Jesus Simal-Gandara ◽

Miguel Prieto

Keyword(s):

Fatty Acids ◽

Supercritical Fluids ◽

Food Industry ◽

Economic Losses ◽

Omega 3 Fatty Acids ◽

Omega 3 ◽

Novel Foods ◽

Fatty Acids Profile ◽

Extraction And Purification ◽

By Products

The valorization of by-products is currently a matter of great concern to improve the sustainability of the food industry. High quality by-products derived from the food chain are omega-3 fatty acids, being fish the main source of docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid. The search for economic and sustainable sources following the standards of circular economy had led to search for strategies that put in value new resources to obtain different omega-3 fatty acids, which could be further employed in the development of new industrial products without producing more wastes and economic losses. In this sense, seeds and vegetables, fruits and crustaceans by products can be an alternative. This review encompasses all these aspects on omega-3 fatty acids profile from marine and agri-food by-products together with their extraction and purification technologies are reported. These comprise conventional techniques like extraction with solvents, cold press, and wet pressing and, more recently proposed ones like, supercritical fluids fractionation and purification by chromatographic methods. The information collected indicates a trend to combine different conventional and emerging technologies to improve product yields and purity. This paper also addresses encapsulation strategies for their integration in novel foods to achieve maximum consumer acceptance and to ensure their effectiveness.

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Oilseed Cakes in the Food Industry: A Review on Applications, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

Current Nutrition & Food Science ◽

10.2174/1573401317666211209150147 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 ◽

Author(s):

Amirhossein Abedini ◽

Adel Mirza Alizadeh ◽

Aida Mahdavi ◽

S. Amirhossein Golzan ◽

Mahla Salimi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Food Industry ◽

Raw Materials ◽

Low Cost ◽

Palm Kernel ◽

Poultry Feed ◽

Food Sector ◽

Novel Foods ◽

Current Review ◽

Wide Range ◽

By Products

: By-products from the food sector now have a wide range of applications. Low-cost raw materials, followed by low-cost goods, are regarded as one of the sectors’ top goals. Because of its economic relevance, reduced price, and nutrients such as protein, fiber, carbs, and antioxidants, oilseed cakes (OCs) have found a desirable place in livestock and poultry feed. Furthermore, because the cake has the same desirable nutrients, its usage in the food business is unavoidable. However, its use in this sector is not simply for nutritious purposes and has it has different impacts on flavor, texture, color, and antioxidant qualities. Therefore, as a result of its desirable qualities, the cake can be more useful in extensive applications in the food business, as well as in the manufacture of supplements and novel foods. The current review looks at the reapplications of byproducts obtained from oilseeds (soybean, sunflower, sesame, canola, palm kernel, peanut, mustard, and almond) in the food sector in the future. Furthermore, allergenicity, toxicity, antinutritional compounds, and techniques of extracting cakes from oilseeds have been discussed.

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Coffee By-Products as Sustainable Novel Foods: Report of the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Foods—“Future Foods and Food Technologies for a Sustainable World”

Foods ◽

10.3390/foods11010003 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 3

Author(s):

Dirk W. Lachenmeier ◽

Steffen Schwarz ◽

Jörg Rieke-Zapp ◽

Ennio Cantergiani ◽

Harshadrai Rawel ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Value Chain ◽

Animal Feed ◽

Coffee Bean ◽

The European Union ◽

Novel Foods ◽

Plant Parts ◽

Electronic Conference ◽

Coffee Farmers ◽

International Experts ◽

By Products

The coffee plant Coffea spp. offers much more than the well-known drink made from the roasted coffee bean. During its cultivation and production, a wide variety of by-products are accrued, most of which are currently unused, thermally recycled, or used as fertilizer or animal feed. Modern, ecologically oriented society attaches great importance to sustainability and waste reduction, so it makes sense to not dispose of the by-products of coffee production but to bring them into the value chain, most prominently as foods for human nutrition. There is certainly huge potential for all of these products, especially on markets not currently accessible due to restrictions, such as the novel food regulation in the European Union. The by-products could help mitigate the socioeconomic burden of coffee farmers caused by globally low coffee prices and increasing challenges due to climate change. The purpose of the conference session summarized in this article was to bring together international experts on coffee by-products and share the current scientific knowledge on all plant parts, including leaf, cherry, parchment and silverskin, covering aspects from food chemistry and technology, nutrition, but also food safety and toxicology. The topic raised a huge interest from the audience and this article also contains a Q&A section with more than 20 answered questions.

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Hydrogen Cyanide Polymers from the Impact of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s025292110001469x ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 161 ◽

pp. 179-187

Author(s):

Clifford N. Matthews ◽

Rose A. Pesce-Rodriguez ◽

Shirley A. Liebman

Keyword(s):

Amino Acids ◽

Solar System ◽

Hydrogen Cyanide ◽

Nitrogen Heterocycles ◽

Laboratory Studies ◽

Heterogeneous Solids ◽

The Many ◽

Comet Halley ◽

The Impact ◽

By Products

AbstractHydrogen cyanide polymers – heterogeneous solids ranging in color from yellow to orange to brown to black – may be among the organic macromolecules most readily formed within the Solar System. The non-volatile black crust of comet Halley, for example, as well as the extensive orangebrown streaks in the atmosphere of Jupiter, might consist largely of such polymers synthesized from HCN formed by photolysis of methane and ammonia, the color observed depending on the concentration of HCN involved. Laboratory studies of these ubiquitous compounds point to the presence of polyamidine structures synthesized directly from hydrogen cyanide. These would be converted by water to polypeptides which can be further hydrolyzed to α-amino acids. Black polymers and multimers with conjugated ladder structures derived from HCN could also be formed and might well be the source of the many nitrogen heterocycles, adenine included, observed after pyrolysis. The dark brown color arising from the impacts of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter might therefore be mainly caused by the presence of HCN polymers, whether originally present, deposited by the impactor or synthesized directly from HCN. Spectroscopic detection of these predicted macromolecules and their hydrolytic and pyrolytic by-products would strengthen significantly the hypothesis that cyanide polymerization is a preferred pathway for prebiotic and extraterrestrial chemistry.

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Bright-Field Images (Ctem) of Phase Objects at High Resolution

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100092414 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 34 ◽

pp. 490-491 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sumio Iijima

Keyword(s):

High Resolution ◽

Electron Beam Irradiation ◽

Fine Particles ◽

High Resolution Electron Microscopy ◽

Good Test ◽

Resolution Electron ◽

Single Crystal Films ◽

Crystal Films ◽

By Products ◽

Test Objects

We have developed a technique to prepare thin single crystal films of graphite for use as supporting films for high resolution electron microscopy. As we showed elsewhere (1), these films are completely noiseless and therefore can be used in the observation of phase objects by CTEM, such as single atoms or molecules as a means for overcoming the difficulties because of the background noise which appears with amorphous carbon supporting films, even though they are prepared so as to be less than 20Å thick. Since the graphite films are thinned by reaction with WO3 crystals under electron beam irradiation in the microscope, some small crystallites of WC or WC2 are inevitably left on the films as by-products. These particles are usually found to be over 10-20Å diameter but very fine particles are also formed on the film and these can serve as good test objects for studying the image formation of phase objects.

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Disinfection By-products in Drinking Water

10.1039/9781782622710 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Drinking Water ◽

By Products

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Allergic Reactions to Food Proteins

International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research ◽

10.1024/0300-9831/a000055 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 81 (23) ◽

pp. 173-180 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Barbara K. Ballmer-Weber

Keyword(s):

Food Allergies ◽

Allergic Reactions ◽

Allergenic Food ◽

Processed Foods ◽

Legal Regulations ◽

Pollen Allergens ◽

Curative Therapy ◽

Novel Foods ◽

Allergenic Proteins ◽

Adolescents And Adults

Four to eight percent of the population are estimated to be food-allergic. Most food allergies in adolescents and adults are acquired on the basis of cross-reaction to pollen allergens. Theses allergens are ubiquitous in the plant kingdom. Therefore pollen-allergic patients might acquire a multitude of different plant food allergies, and even react to novel foods to which they have never previously been exposed. A curative therapy for food allergy does not yet exist. Food-allergic patients have to rely on strict avoidance diets, The widespread use of industrially processed foods poses a general problem for food-allergic patients. Although the most frequent allergens must be declared openly in the list of ingredients, involuntary contamination with allergy-provoking compounds can occur. The precautionary labelling may contain is sometimes applied even if the chance of contamination is very low; on the other hand, foods not declared to contain possible traces of allergenic components may actually contain relevant amounts of allergenic proteins. Switzerland is the only country in Europe with legal regulations on contamination by allergenic food; however, the allowance of 1 g/kg is too high to protect a relevant proportion of food-allergic individuals.

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