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Green Extraction and
Valorization of By-Products
from Food Processing
Green Extraction and
Valorization of By-Products
from Food Processing
Edited by
Francisco J. Barba
Elena Roselló-Soto
Mladen Brnčić
Jose M. Lorenzo
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PREFACE vii
ABOUT THE EDITORS ix
CONTRIBUTORS xi
V
VI CONTENTS
INDEX 357
Preface
Over the last decades, an increased public interest has been shown for the big chal-
lenge that constitutes food wastage in Europe. Generation of Agricultural Wastes
and By-products (AWB) during the production, processing, and consumption of
agricultural commodities is unavoidable. Either referring to nonedible parts of each
commodity (e.g., straws, pruning, manure, and bones) or to edible parts and quan-
tities that are removed or discarded so as to reassure quality and health appropri-
ateness of the final product/food (e.g., peels, rotten fruits and vegetables, spoiled
meat and milk), AWB are estimated to more than 700 million tons per year in
Europe (Pavwelczyk, 2005). In this line, different normatives and resolutions have
been adopted by the European Parliament 19 January 2012 (2011/2175(INI).
Apart from its significant quantities, the physicochemical characteristics of the vari-
ous AWB denote that there is immense potential for their reuse/recycle/valoriza-
tion through various different processes.
The valorization or reuse of AWB includes many different processes and ways.
For instance, straw can be used as fodder (with or without processing), bedding
material, for energy exploitation through direct burning, or preferably through vari-
ous processes such as pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion, and hydrothermal carboniza-
tion, as organic fertilizer/soil conditioner to replenish soil organic matter, or for the
production of insulation panels or substrate for growing mushrooms. Waste dis-
posal and by-product management in food processing industry pose problems in
the areas of environmental protection and sustainability. However, they could be
a great source of valuable nutraceuticals, which can be used to deal with the pro-
spects of feeding fast growing population in the 21st century. Typical categories of
bioactive compounds found in AWB include: carotenoids, anthocyanins, betalains,
VII
VIII PREFACE
Dr. Francisco J. Barba is Doctor and Professor at the University of Valencia, Valen-
cia, Spain. He holds a European PhD in Pharmacy (with distinction) from the Uni-
versity of Valencia and holds degrees in Pharmacy and in Food Science and
Technology. He has more than 235 publications (SCOPUS; h-index: 38). He is an
associate editor of the journals Food Research International, Journal of Food Compos-
ition and Analysis, Journal of Food Processing and Preservation, Molecules, and others.
Dr. Elena Roselló-Soto is a pharmacist. She obtained her MSc degree in Food
Science and Food Safety and PhD in Pharmacy from the University of Valencia.
She holds a degree in Pharmacy. Her research focuses on valorization of food
wastes and by-products.
Dr. Mladen Brnčić is full-time Professor and Head of the Department of Process
Engineering and Head of Laboratory for Thermodynamics at Faculty of Food
Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Croatia. He obtained his
BS in Biochemical Engineering and MSc and PhD in Food Engineering from
the University of Zagreb. His research output summarizes in over 100 peer-
review publications and various international meeting and conference contribu-
tions as plenary and invited lectures.
Dr. Jose Manuel Lorenzo is Head of Research at the Meat Technology Centre of
Galicia, Ourense, Spain. His research focuses on development of new product, pro-
cesses, and food packaging. He has more than 260 publications (SCOPUS; h-index:
31). He is an associate editor of the Food Research International, Journal of the Science
Food and Agriculture, Food Analytical Methods, and Canadian Journal of Animal Science.
IX
Contributors
XI
XII CONTRIBUTORS
LUIS ROCA-PÉREZ
Department of Vegetal Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitat de València, Avda.
Vicent Andrés Estellés, s/n 46100 Burjassot, València, Spain
JOSE M. LORENZO
Centro Tecnológico de la Carne de Galicia, Rúa Galicia Nº 4, ParqueTecnológico de
Galicia, San Cibrán das Viñas, 32900 Ourense, Spain
Contents
1 Introduction 2
2 Main Wastes and By-Products from Food Industries 4
2.1 Fruit and Vegetable By-Products 4
2.2 Grain Processing Industry By-Products 10
2.3 Winery Industry By-Products 12
1
2 GREEN EXTRACTION AND VALORIZATION OF BY-PRODUCTS
1 Introduction
The legislative framework developed in several countries around the world prioritizes
recycling and recovery of waste and by-products to elimination. For instance, the Euro-
pean Directive 2006/12/EEC (Anonymous 2006) sets out the importance of encour-
aging the recovery of waste/by-products and the use of recycled materials in order to
preserve natural resources. In this framework, Directive 2008/98/EC (Anonymous 2008)
on waste lays down measures to protect the environment and human health by prevent-
ing or reducing overall impacts of resource use and improving the efficiency of such use.
The cultivation and processing of the products obtained entail the generation of
waste that can be valued as by-products. In this sense, Lal (2005) defined the residue of
a crop “as the part of the inedible plant that remains in the field after harvest.” Some
researchers also include as such the organic remains that are produced in the crop treat-
ment plants, or those that are discarded after the management of the crop. Recently,
Alexander et al. (2017) quantified the losses, inefficiencies, and waste in the global food
system. These authors concluded that, due to cumulative losses, the proportion of global
agricultural dry biomass consumed as food is just 6% (9.0% for energy and 7.6% for pro-
tein) and of harvest biomass is 24.8% (31.9% for energy and 27.8% for protein). The
highest rates of loss are associated with livestock production, although the largest abso-
lute losses of biomass occur prior to harvest. Losses of harvested crops were also found
to be substantial, with 44.0% of crop dry matter (36.9% of energy and 50.1% of protein)
lost prior to human consumption. On the other hand, about 38% of food waste is pro-
duced during food processing (Helkar, Sahoo, and Patil 2016).
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), food waste
represents the single largest type of waste entering landfills (Nishida 2014). A large
amount of food waste and by-products, as well as their microbial decomposition,
creates huge environmental, human health, economic, and social problems (Helkar,
Sahoo, and Patil 2016; Koubaa et al. 2015; Mourad 2016; Parniakov et al. 2015;
Putnik et al. 2017b). In addition, the large cost for waste treatment is an additional
charge for the food manufacturers. However, wastes and by-products derived from
agri-food industry contain large amounts of high-added-value compounds such as
nutrients and bioactive compounds (e.g., vitamins, polyphenols, and glucosinolates/
isothiocyanates), among others that have beneficial effects attributed, mainly, to
their antioxidant power (Barba, Esteve, and Frígola 2014; Barba et al. 2016b;
Deng et al. 2015; Granato, Nunes, and Barba 2017; Putnik et al. 2017a; Roselló-
Soto et al. 2016; Vinceković et al. 2017). Food by-products have numerous appli-
cations in several industries such as pharmaceutical, biomedicine, cosmetic, paper
GREEN EXTRACTION 3
industry, as well as human and animal nutrition, among others. In fact, a healthy
trend in the food industry consists of converting the food wastes or by-products to
functional food ingredients (Helkar, Sahoo, and Patil 2016).
In order to valorize the waste and by-products from different agri-food indus-
tries, it is important to evaluate first the amount produced, as well as the microbial
load they present and the added value they can present from an economic point of
view, especially due to their content in high-added-value compounds (Barba et al.
2015a, 2015b, 2016a; Barba and Orlien 2017; Putnik et al. 2017b).
Most of the wastes and by-products that have been selected in this book to
extract high-added-value compounds, among other criteria, have been chosen for
their remarkable production worldwide. Table 1.1 shows the global production data
of some of the crops obtained from FAO in 2015. The waste generated by the crops
can be estimated by multiplying the annual production by the values of residue-
production-ratio (RPR) for each crop. The proportion between the harvested prod-
uct and the waste can vary depending on a set of factors such as the variety of crop,
the supply of water and nutrients during cultivation, the water content of the waste,
the use of chemical growth regulators, environmental factors of each zone, harvested
method, and so on (Abou Hussein and Sawan 2010; Eisentraut 2010; Singh 2015).
The RPR depends on the crop and the approximate amount of waste generated
worldwide for some of the waste generated.
Most of the waste from crops is produced by cereals. Other important food by-
products are pulses, fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy, marine, sugarcane, winery, and
plantation waste. In particular, production and applications of waste and by-
products originated from fruit and vegetable, grain proccesing, coffee, winery,
marine (including fish and algae), meat, and dairy industries are reviewed in this
book. Moreover, other by-products have been selected due to their importance at
the local level such as tiger nuts (Cyperus esculentus). Given their high global annual
production, to deliver insight into the current state of art and innovative extraction
technologies to extract valuable products from food processing by-products is
necessary (Koubaa et al. 2015; Roselló-Soto et al. 2018a, 2018b).
Conventional methods of by-products’ disposal, animal feed, soil fertilizers, and/or
biofuels do not provide the industry with the sufficient economic incentive to increase
their competitiveness and address environmental problems, which is aggravated by legal
restrictions. Traditionally, different techniques have been used for the recovery of bio-
active compounds from waste and by-products of the agri-food industry, such as milling,
extraction with solvents, etc. (Misra et al. 2015, 2017a; Roselló-Soto et al. 2015b). How-
ever, this type of techniques, generally, uses a large amount of solvents, which in many
cases can be toxic. Moreover, they also need long extraction times to obtain maximum
performance, which supposes an additional operating cost. That is why research is neces-
sary to find new alternative technologies to eliminate toxic solvents, reduce operating
costs with the maximization of yields, and use techniques that are ecological, thus gener-
ating a great benefit for both industries and the society. Innovative extraction technolo-
gies are, in general, more “green” technologies than conventional ones for the extraction
of bioactive compounds. As global waste production rates are expected to continue rising
during the following decennium, the development and selection of sustainable waste
management solutions become more and more interesting (Six et al. 2016).
Different classifications for waste and by-products from agri-food industries are
available. Food by-products can be classified into the following six categories: (a) crop
waste and residues; (b) fruit and vegetables by-products; (c) sugar, starch, and confection-
ary industry by-products; (d) oil industry by-products; (e) grain and legume by-products;
and (f) distilleries and breweries by-products (Ajila et al. 2012). In the current book,
waste and by-products from food industries will be categorized, based on Helkar et al.
(2016) classification, as follows: (a) fruit and vegetable (including olive oil), (b) grain pro-
cessing, (c) winery (includes also brewery), (d) marine, (e) meat, and (f) dairy industry.
Vegetable and fruit processing industries produce millions of tons of by-products such
as peels, seeds, stones, residual pulp, and discarded pieces that generate important
environmental management problems for the industry (Barba et al. 2017b; Parniakov
GREEN EXTRACTION 5
Table 1.2 Percentage of fruit and vegetable wastes and by-products according to the origin (AWAR-
ENET 2004; De Las Fuentes et al. 2004).
et al. 2014, 2015, 2016a, 2016b). As shown in Table 1.2, the percentage of fruit and
vegetable wastes and by-products varies from 5% to 85% depending on the origin
(AWARENET 2004; De Las Fuentes et al. 2004). As average, the production of
likely waste is estimated to be approximately 30% of the processed material for most
fruits and vegetables. Tropical and subtropical fruits processing has considerably higher
ratios of by-products than the temperate fruits (Barba et al. 2017b).
The reuse of vegetable and fruit by-products to obtain biologically active phy-
tochemicals (phenolic compounds, carotenoids, minerals, dietary fiber, etc.), which
can be used as natural functional ingredients that include antitumoral, antibacterial,
cardioprotective, and antimutagenic activities, could be a solution to the economic
and environmental problems involved in removing vegetable and fruit processing
waste. Moreover, the use of vegetable and fruit processing by-products as a source
for obtaining phytochemicals, which can be used in the design of new functional
foods, is a topic of great interest today (Barba, Boussetta and Vorobiev 2015;
Barba et al. 2015; Koubaa et al. 2016; Roselló-Soto et al. 2015a).
The waste obtained from fruits and processing industry is extremely diverse
due to the use of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, the broad range of pro-
cesses, and the multiplicity of the product (William 2005). In general, fruit and
vegetable by-products are low in fat and rich in fibers (gastrointestinal system
health), minerals, and antioxidants (prevention of degenerative diseases). In fact, in
some cases, antioxidants present a higher activity in the residues than in the pulp
(Gorinstein et al. 2001). Fiber derived from fruit wastes (95% skin or pulp tissues)
is used as food ingredients (enriched food products), for functional foods, and also
for animal nutrition. Moreover, pectins are used in pharmaceutical industries as
drug carriers and excipients. The main functional ingredients from fruit and vege-
table by-products of higher consumption (apple skin/pomace, grape pomace/skin/
seeds, carrot peel, potato peel, red beet, and olive pomace) are polyphenols that are
antioxidant compounds with antihypertensive, anticancer, antidiabetic, and hypoli-
pidemic activities (Rabetafika et al. 2014). Polyphenols are commonly used as addi-
tives in foods to prevent peroxidation and also for protecting against oxidative
damage in living systems by scavenging oxygen-free radicals as well as nutritional
supplements (Barba, Esteve and Frigola 2013, 2014; Horita et al. 2018; Lorenzo
6 GREEN EXTRACTION AND VALORIZATION OF BY-PRODUCTS
et al. 2018, 2018; Makris, Boskou, and Andrikopoulos 2007). In addition, hesper-
idin from orange peel; carotenoids from orange pulp, carrot peel, and tomato skin
(lycopene); unsaturated fatty acids from tomato seeds; and phytosterols from sun-
flower seed and soybean seed can also be obtained (Galanakis 2012; Oreopoulou
and Tzia 2007; Putnik et al. 2017c; Roselló-Soto et al. 2015a). Fruit and vegetable
by-products in industrial applications have been recently extensively reviewed
(Cheok et al. 2018; Galanakis et al. 2015; Gómez and Martinez 2017; Kasapidou,
Sossidou, and Mitlianga 2015; Kodagoda and Marapana 2017; Okino Delgado and
Fleuri 2016; O’Shea, Arendt, and Gallagher 2012). Table 1.3 shows the main
components and their industrial applications for fruit and vegetable by-products.
Recently, many research studies have focused on innovative technologies that
promise to overcome the issues of convential techniques such as time-consuming,
inefficiency, and low yield, among others (Barba et al. 2017a; Ferrentino, Asaduz-
zaman, and Scampicchio 2018; Misra et al. 2015, 2017a, 2017b; Ran et al. 2018;
Ribas-Agustí et al. 2017), such as sub/supercritical, ultrasound-, and enzyme-
assisted extractions (Ben Rahal et al. 2015; Koubaa et al. 2017b; Poojary et al.
2016; Roselló-Soto et al. 2016; Zhu et al. 2017). The main advantages of ultra-
sonic-assisted extraction (UAE) and (microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) consist
in large reduction in extraction time, higher yield of oils and active principles,
improved selectivity, and higher stability and organoleptic quality of the extracts
(Bouras et al. 2015; Carbonell-Capella et al. 2017; Koubaa et al. 2016; Roselló-
Soto et al. 2015; Zhu et al. 2016a, 2016b). Each matrix, however, needs to have
its operating conditions carefully optimized to achieve high quality standards and
yields.
By-products from coffee processing can also be considered as potential func-
tional ingredients for the food industry. The coffee husks, peel, and pulp, which
comprises nearly 45% of the cherry, are one of the main by-products of coffee
agro-industry and might be a valuable material for several purposes, including
extraction of caffeine and polyphenols (Bondesson 2015). Other by-products ori-
ginating from coffee processing, which have been less studied, are the mucilage and
the parchment. These compounds also might have a high potential as a source of
important ingredients as well (Esquivel and Jiménez 2012; Pérez-Sariñana and Sal-
daña-Trinidad 2017) (Figure 1.1). Moreover, the spent coffee grounds composting
seems to be a practical approach that offers an alternative and direct reuse for this
by-product, extendable to other crops, providing value-added vegetable products
(Cruz 2014).
Furthermore, other by-products have been selected due to their importance at
Mediterranean or at the local level as, for example, olive oil and tiger nuts (Cyperus
esculentus). Olive tree culture is especially important in the Mediterranean area,
Spain being first about total culture surface and number of productive trees. The
use of residues and by-products from the olive oil production chain has been exten-
sively studied (Anastopoulos, Massas, and Ehaliotis 2015; Koubaa et al. 2017a;
GREEN EXTRACTION 7
Table 1.3 Main components and industrial applications of fruit and vegetable by-products (Source: own ellaboration
based on Helkar et al. (2016) and Kodagoda and Marapana (2017))
Apple Pomace1 Phlorizin (phenolic compound) Component of an oral antidiabetic drug class.
Substitution of manufactured azocolors for
foods, some of which have been associated
with health risks
Polyphenolic extracts (antioxidant) Prevent colon cancer in vitro2
Pectin (10–15% w/w dry basis) Food ingredient. Drug carrier and excipient for
medicines
Non starch polysaccharides: 36.5% Enriched bakery products replacing wheat
insoluble fiber and 14.6% soluble flour
fiber
Others: chlorogenic acid, phloretin Functional foods
glycosides, quercetin glycosides,
catechins, and procyanidisms
Skin Polyphenolic extracts (antioxidant) Human health. Food industry
Pomegranate Skin and seed Polyphenols, including primarily Animal nutrition. Hypocholesterolemic. Sup-
hydrolyzable ellagitannins, anthocya- plemental foods as antioxidants. Nutraceut-
nins, and other polyphenols ical properties
Grape Pomace Anthocyanin-based pigments Substitution of manufactured azocolors for
(includes stems, foods, some of which have been associated
seeds, and with health risks
skins) Phenolic extracts linked to fiber Antioxidant. Prevent cancer and cardiovascu-
lar diseases
Fiber Functional ingredient in bakery products. To
reduce rancidity on ice storage of seafood.
Alternative fining agents for red wines. To
remove red wine tannings. To increase the
dietary fiber and total phenolic content in
dairy products. To delay lipid oxidation in
yogurt and salad dressings
Oil (mainly for seed): oleic and lino- Antioxidant, hepatoprotective, neuroprotective,
leic acids, phenolic extracts liver cholesterol reduction ability, meat
industry
Citrus Skin Flavanones, polymethoxylated fla- Antioxidants in pharmaceutical, biotechno-
vones, flavonols, and phenolic acid logical, and food industries
Oil (lime and lemon) Aroma flavor for beverages. Food (e.g., pre-
serving mozzarella cheese by the inhibitory
effect on the microorganisms responsible for
spoilage phenomena without affecting the
functional microbiota of the product).
Pharmaceutical (to mask unpleasant tastes
of drugs)
(Continued )
8 GREEN EXTRACTION AND VALORIZATION OF BY-PRODUCTS
Banana Skin Phenolic, anthocyanin, carotenoids, Low calorie food products (fiber-enriched
catecholamines, sterols, and food). Heavy metals sorption removing chro-
triterpenes mium (III) and (IV)
Polymers as lignin, hemicellulose, Synthesis of nanoparticles displayed anti-
and pectin microbial activity toward pathogenic fungi
and most of the tested bacterial cultures
Granadilla Pomace Pectins Anticytotoxic compounds
Mango Skin Carotenoids Antioxidants for human health. Colorants for
food industry
Fiber Decrease intestinal absorption of cholesterol
and its level in blood
Kernel (powder) Oil (oleic and linolenic fatty acids) Health benefits
Flavonoids, terpenes, tannins, and Antimicrobial and antifungal activity
coumarins
Papaya Skin and seed Papain (enzyme with strong proteo- Meat tenderizers
lytic activity)
Petioles Synthesis of oleic acid esters
Pineapple Skin Sugars Nutrient in fermentation processes: substrate
for methane, ethanol, hydrogen generation
Carbohydrates and proteins Biogas generation
Ferulic acid Precursor for vanillic acid
Core Fiber Production of pineapple juice concentrates,
beverages, and vinegar
Fiber-enriched food products
Production of lactic and citric acids
Stem Bromelain (enzyme with strong pro- Meat tenderizer. Bread dough improver. Fruit
teolytic activity) anti-browning agent. Beer clarifier. Tooth
whitening agent. Animal feed
Artichoke Leaves, outside Bioactive phenolic compounds Hepatoprotective
bracts, and Anti-HIV, anticarcinogenic, antibacterial, bile-
stems expelling, antioxidative and urinative
activities
Ability to inhibit cholesterol biosynthesis and
LDL oxidation
Nutraceuticals
Inulin (low calorie fiber) Production of fat reduced foods
Cynarin (1,3-O-dicaffeoylquinic acid) Liver protestations
Tomato Pulp and skin Polysaccharides (similar to xyloglu- Antioxidant activity
can biopolymer)
Onion Tunic and the Thiol compounds Polyphenol oxidase enzyme inhibitory effect.
first two layers Antioxidant and antibrowning properties.
Nutraceuticals. Antibacterial and anti-
inflammatory properties
(Continued )
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Table 1.3 (Cont.)
Sunflower3 Hull and seeds Protein Alternative to soy and egg protein as nourish-
without hull ment protein being devoid of toxic substances
and low in antinutrients
Oil, hull, and flour for animal nutrition
Coconut pulp4 Free milk, no lactose, low fat, and no choles-
terol food
1
25% of the original fruit mass.
2
McCann, Gill, Brien, Rao, Mcroberts, Hughes, Mcentee, and Rowland (2007).
3
De-oiled press cake.
4
By-product from water coco industry.
Moubarik, Barba, and Grimi 2015; Putnik et al. 2017b; Roselló-Soto et al. 2015b;
Şahin et al. 2017, 2018). One important alternative from a quantitative point of
view is their utilization as a source of nutrients for animal nutrition, in particular
for small ruminants’ nutrition (Molina Alcaide and Nefzaoui 1996). Recently,
Guermazi et al. (2017) have proposed a new facility composed of a destoner and
a two-phase extraction system to improve the working capacity and contribute to
decreasing the environmental impact during all the processes of olive oil produc-
tion. The proposed new system produces, on the one hand, an olive pulp that gives
an extra virgin olive oil rich in natural antioxidants and an olive paste with
a smoky taste for food consumption, and on the other hand, stones that give an
Figure 1.1 Applications for pulp, mucilage, parchment, and seed of coffee (Source: (Pérez-Sariñana and Saldaña-
Trinidad 2017)).
10 GREEN EXTRACTION AND VALORIZATION OF BY-PRODUCTS
olive oil for cosmetic application and a raw material to produce energy. The tiger
nut’s health aspects, composition, properties, and food applications were revised by
Sánchez-Zapata, Fernández-López, and Angel Pérez-Alvarez (2012). Tiger nut is
a weed plant (yellow nut sedge) of tropical and Mediterranean regions. Its sweet
almond-like tubers are highly appreciated for their health benefits and nutritive
value: high content of fiber, proteins, and sugars. They are rich in oleic acid and
glucose, as well as in P, K, and vitamins C and E. In Spain, these tuberous “nuts”
are mainly used to manufacture a milky beverage called “horchata de chufa.” Tiger
nut has attracted very little scientific and technological interest, except for the pro-
duction of “horchata de chufa” and some studies on its oil (Roselló-Soto et al.
2018a). The development of new products from the tubers could enhance more
interest in this crop. In this respect, various opportunities are offered: source of
dietary fiber, use of its oil in cooking or salad preparation, and production of cara-
mel to be used as a food additive. Recently, Roselló-Soto et al. (2018b) have stud-
ied the tiger nut and its by-products valorization from extraction of oil and
valuable compounds to the development of new healthy products. This review pro-
vided an overview of some of the most relevant innovative processing technologies
to allow the industrial sustainability and green recovery of oil from tiger nuts and
their by-products, and tries to expose potential avenues for future research in com-
mercial exploitation of tiger nuts and its by-products as source of ingredients to be
incorporated in new food matrices to improve their technological and functional
aspects.
Novel scientific and alternative technologies should be used to extract the opti-
mum levels of bioactive compounds as well as other compounds of economic
importance from the fruit wastes (Kodagoda and Marapana 2017). The combined
effort of waste minimization and sustainable utilization of the by-products would
substantially reduce the large quantities of fruit wastes accumulated globally.
Figure 1.2 Schematic diagram of the main industrial processing of cereals illustrating products (green shade) and
by-products (red shade) (Source: Elmekawy et al. (2013)).
represent serious economic and environmental challenges. However, they contain exten-
sive amounts of potentially reusable materials and energy.
Cereal valorization approaches are divided into biochemical (organic acids,
enzymes, vanillin, and antibiotics) and bioenergetic (biohydrogen, bioethanol, bio-
butanol, biogas, and bioelectricity) (Helkar, Sahoo, and Patil 2016). Some of these
by-products have a special importance in pharmaceutical and medicinal industries
such as in the case of rice by-products whose anticancer effects have been widely
demonstrated (Esa, Ling, and Peng 2013). In addition, the reutilization of cereal
processing by-products in bread making has been recently evaluated (Duţă, Culeţu,
and Mohan 2018). Conventionally, various techniques have been used for the val-
orization of cereals by-products, and the available information in this regard is very
extensive. Moreover, the extrussion processing of some raw food materials and by-
products (Nikmaram et al. 2017), including cereals, is an alternative to conven-
tional methods as it was recently reviewed by Offiah et al. (2018).
12 GREEN EXTRACTION AND VALORIZATION OF BY-PRODUCTS
This socioeconomic activity generates a large amount of solid waste (up to 30% w/
w of the material used), including vine prunings, grape stalks, pomace, seeds, yeast
lees, tartrate, carbon dioxide, and wastewater, which become fertilizer, animal feed,
or fuel. However, their most common application is in food industry based on
their high antioxidant content (Barba et al. 2016b) that are much safer than syn-
thetic antioxidants (Helkar, Sahoo, and Patil 2016). Teixeira et al. (2014) reviewed
the potential numerous health benefits of winery wastes polyphenols with antioxi-
dant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, and cardiovascular protection
activities, in support of phenolic compound use in pharmaceutical, food, and cos-
metic industries. However, there are several constraints in currently available
options for reusing these unprofitable materials. For example, certain polyphenols
found in winery by-products are known to be phytotoxic and display antimicrobial
effects during composting, impairing their utilization for this purpose. Regarding
their use in livestock feed, some animals show intolerance to certain components,
such as condensed tannins, which negatively affect digestibility (González-Centeno
et al. 2014). Hence, their valorization as a source of bioactive phytochemicals of
application in pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food industries might constitute an
efficient, profitable, and environment-friendly alternative for residues (Barba et al.
2016b; Makris, Boskou, Andrikopoulos 2007). Innovative and more efficient solv-
ents and extraction methods such as high pressure and temperature extraction,
supercritical fluids, or ultrasound and microwave-assisted extractions have been
reported in an attempt to enhance the efficiency of the extraction of phytochem-
icals from vinification residues (Delgado-Torre et al. 2012; Ju and Howard 2003).
However, the use of alternative/nonconventional processes/technologies to the
extraction and purification of high-added-value compounds from by-products of
the winemaking chain is possible (Barba et al. 2015, 2016b).
Marine industry includes fish (oils and proteins), macro- and microalgae, among
other products. By-products from seafood processing may account for up to 80% of
the weight of the harvest depending on the species (Helkar, Sahoo, and Patil
2016), and include a variety of constituents with important added value as nutra-
ceuticals, bioactive compounds, and functional food ingredients (Gormley 2013).
These include ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) from the livers of white
lean fish, waste flesh parts of fatty fish, blubber of marine animals, hydrolysates
from fish guts/cleanings, peptides, and products from crustaceans such as chitosan,
chitosan oligomers, and glucosamines. In addition, shells from crustaceans, fish
bones, and shark cartilages are extensively used for obtaining Ca for supplements
in human (Kadam and Prabhasankar 2010) and animal nutrition (Safaa et al.
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Now, it was our hostess’s turn to entertain. We intimated as
much. She responded, first by much talk, much consultation with
Solange, and finally by going to one of the shelves that held the pans
and taking down some paper-covered books.
There was more consultation, whispered this time, and much
turning of pages. Then, after some preliminary coughing and
humming, the music began—the woman’s rich alto blending with the
child’s shrill but sweet notes. And what they sang was “Tantum ergo
Sacramentum.”
Why she should have thought that an appropriate song to offer
this company of rough soldiers from a distant land I do not know.
And why we found it appropriate it is harder still to say. But it did
seem appropriate to all of us—to Sergeant Reilly, to Jim (who used
to drive a truck), to Larry (who sold cigars), to Frank (who tended a
bar on Fourteenth Street). It seemed, for some reason, eminently
fitting. Not one of us then or later expressed any surprise that this
hymn, familiar to most of us since our mothers first led us to the
Parish Church down the pavements of New York or across the Irish
hills, should be sung to us in this strange land and in these strange
circumstances.
Since the gracious Latin of the Church was in order and since
the season was appropriate, one of us suggested “Adeste Fideles”
for the next item on the evening’s program. Madame and Solange
and our ex-seminarian knew all the words and the rest of us came in
strong with “Venite, adoremus Dominum.”
Then, as if to show that piety and mirth may live together, the
ladies obliged with “Au Clair de la Lune” and other simple ballads of
old France. And after taps had sounded in the street outside our
door, and there was yawning, and wrist-watches were being
scanned, the evening’s entertainment ended, by general consent,
with patriotic selections. We sang—as best we could—the Star
Spangled Banner, Solange and her mother humming the air and
applauding at the conclusion. Then we attempted La Marseillaise. Of
course we did not know the words. Solange came to our rescue with
two little pamphlets containing the song, so we looked over each
other’s shoulders and got to work in earnest. Madame sang with us,
and Solange. But during the final stanza Madame did not sing. She
leaned against the great family bedstead and looked at us. She had
taken one of the babies from under the red comforter and held him to
her breast. One of her red and toil-scarred hands half covered his fat
little back. There was a gentle dignity about that plain, hard-working
woman, that soldier’s widow—we all felt it. And some of us saw the
tears in her eyes.
There are mists, faint and beautiful and unchanging, that hang
over the green slopes of some mountains I know. I have seen them
on the Irish hills and I have seen them on the hills of France. I think
that they are made of the tears of good brave women.
Before I went to sleep that night I exchanged a few words with
Sergeant Reilly. We lay side by side on the floor, now piled with
straw. Blankets, shelter-halves, slickers and overcoats insured warm
sleep. Sergeant Reilly’s hard old face was wrapped round with his
muffler. The final cigarette of the day burned lazily in a corner of his
mouth.
“That was a pretty good evening, Sarge,” I said. “We sure were
in luck when we struck this billet.”
He grunted affirmatively, then puffed in silence for a few minutes.
Then he deftly spat the cigarette into a strawless portion of the floor,
where it glowed for a few seconds before it went out.
“You said it,” he remarked. “We were in luck is right. What do you
know about that lady, anyway?”
“Why,” I answered, “I thought she treated us pretty white.”
“Joe,” said Sergeant Reilly, “do you realize how much trouble
that woman took to make this bunch of roughnecks comfortable?
She didn’t make a damn cent on that feed, you know. The kid spent
all the money we give her. And she’s out about six francs for
firewood, too—I wish to God I had the money to pay her. I bet she’ll
go cold for a week now, and hungry, too.
“And that ain’t all,” he continued, after a pause broken only by an
occasional snore from our blissful neighbours. “Look at the way she
cooked them pomme de terres and fixed things up for us and let us
sit down there with her like we was her family. And look at the way
she and the little Sallie there sung for us.
“I tell you, Joe, it makes me think of old times to hear a woman
sing them Church hymns to me that way. It’s forty years since I heard
a hymn sung in a kitchen, and it was my mother, God rest her, that
sang them. I sort of realize what we’re fighting for now, and I never
did before. It’s for women like that and their kids.
“It gave me a turn to see her a-sitting their singing them hymns. I
remembered when I was a boy in Shangolden. I wonder if there’s
many women like that in France now—telling their beads and singing
the old hymns and treating poor traveling men the way she’s just
after treating us. There used to be lots of women like that in the Old
Country. And I think that’s why it was called ‘Holy Ireland.’”
THE GENTLE ART OF CHRISTMAS
GIVING
IF A dentist stuck a bit of holly in his cap and went through the
streets on Christmas morning, his buzzing drill over his shoulder and
his forceps in his hand, stopping at the houses of his friends to give
their jaws free treatment, meanwhile trolling out lusty Yuletide staves
—if he were to do this, I say, it would be said of him, among other
things, that he was celebrating Christmas in a highly original manner.
Undoubtedly there would be many other adjectives applied to his
manner of generosity—adjectives applied, for instance, by the
children whom, around their gayly festooned tree, he surprised with
his gift of expert treatment. But the adjective most generally used
(not perhaps in adulation) would be “original.” And the use of this
adjective would be utterly wrong.
The holly bedecked dentist would not be acting in an original
manner. He would not be following the suggestion of his own
philanthropic heart. He would be acting in accordance with tradition,
a particularly annoying tradition, the evil and absurd superstition that
a gift should be representative of the giver rather than of the
recipient.
Now, I am aware that there is high literary authority for the
dentist’s Christmas morning expedition. The dentist himself would be
the first to disclaim having originated the idea; if you were to
question him he would tell you, as he deftly adjusted his rubber dam
in your mouth, that the credit belonged to the late Ralph Waldo
Emerson.
“Emerson,” the dentist would say as he sharpened the point of
his drill, “said that a gift was meaningless unless it was a genuine
expression of the giver; it would be unfitting, for instance, for a poet
to give his friend a house and lot, and a painter, his friend, a
diamond necklace. The poet should give a poem and the painter
should give a painting. Therefore it naturally follows that a minister
should give a sermon and a school teacher should bestow upon his
expectant pupils an extra page of mathematical problems. This,” the
dentist would say, “is the gift most expressive of my personality.” And
the drill would seek its goal.
Now, there is much to be said in favour of the Emersonian theory
of giving. Certainly it has the advantages of cheapness and
convenience. Many a poet could more easily give his friend a whole
ode or a sequence of sonnets or a bale of vers libre than he could
give a box of cigars, or a cigar. Many a painter could more easily
cover his children’s Christmas tree with his own cubist canvases
than with peppermint canes and toy locomotives and dolls and little
trumpets. A storekeeper or a manufacturer of any sort can more
easily select his gifts from his own stock than he can select them
elsewhere. Should a brewer, for instance, desire to help make Mr.
Bryan’s Christmas happy, it would be a simpler matter for him to put
in that gentleman’s stocking a case of beer than a case of grape
juice.
But cheapness and convenience are not the chief reasons for
this sort of giving. A poet who gives a poem when he should give a
pair of fur gauntlets, a painter who gives a painting when he should
give a doll, does so, it often happens, in spite of the fact that he has
thousands of dollars in the bank and lives within a block of a
department store, which he much enjoys visiting. He gives the gifts
that he does give because of his selfishness and conceit. He gives
his own wares because they advertise his talent.
The poet knows that his friend will not say, to inquiring admirers
of his fur gauntlets, “These were given me by Ezra Dusenbury,
author of ‘Babylonian Bleatings’ and other Lyrics: Smith, Parker &
Co., $1 net.” The painter knows that the infant he has enriched will
not say to her young companions: “‘Bettina’ was given me by the
illustrious Gaspar Slifestein whose incomprehensiblist canvases are
now on exhibition at the Microscopic Mania Gallery, 249 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.” These gentlemen take a violent interest in
their own work, and when they give presents of that work they are
trying to force their friends to share that interest and to extend it to all
the world. They are trying to force their friends to become their press
agents.
Of course there are exceptions to the rule that a giver should not
give his own wares. Any man who deals in wares that are universally
delightful may express himself in his gifts to his heart’s content and
no one will criticise him. So let no brewer or cigar-maker or money-
changer of my acquaintance puzzle his head long in the effort to
discover in the marts of the world something appropriate to my
peculiar tastes. These honest citizens may be as Emersonian in their
giving as they wish.
As I said, there is much to recommend the idea that inspired the
hypothetical dentist on his Yuletide denting; there is much to
recommend the gift-expressing-the-giver theory. It is convenient, it is
cheap, it is satisfying to the giver’s conceit. It is in many respects
excellent. But it does not happen to be suited to Christmas Day. It is
suited to the celebration of Emerson’s birthday, if any one knows the
date of that festival.
You see, unselfishness is supposed to be a characteristic of
Christmas giving. And unselfishness, true unselfishness, was known
to the philosophy of the Transcendentalists as little as it is known to
that of the Nietzscheans. He who gives really in accordance with the
spirit of the feast gives not to express his own personality, to call
attention to his own prowess as a painter or a poet or a candlestick-
maker, but to make his friend happy. If his friend remembers him
when he enjoys the gift, so much the better. But the essential thing is
that he shall enjoy the gift.
James Russell Lowell represented the Founder of the Feast of
Christmas as saying: “Who gives himself in his gift feeds three;
himself, his suffering neighbour and me.” But in Lowell’s mind when
he wrote this was no idea of justifying the poet who thrusts poems
into his friends’ Christmas stocking and tips the elevator man with a
villanelle. He was thinking of sacrificial giving, of giving which
necessitates a sacrifice on the part of the giver rather than on that of
the recipient. And it is no sacrifice for a poet to give his poem or his
book of poems. James Russell Lowell’s distinguished kinswoman,
now living in Boston, knows this. If Miss Amy Lowell really loves you
she will give you for Christmas an automobile or one of her Keats
manuscripts, rather than an autographed copy of “Sword Blades and
Poppy Seeds,” or “Men, Women, and Ghosts.”
Few Bishops resemble Mark Twain. But there once was a
Bishop who resembled Mark Twain in this respect (and in no other)
—he is known to many thousands who do not know his real name.
Mark Twain has thousands of friends who never heard of Samuel
Langhorne Clemens. And hundreds of thousands of children yearly
are gladdened by Santa Claus, yet have no association whatever
with the name of Saint Nicholas of Bari.
Yet the amiable Nicholas (who is the patron of sailors, of
prisoners, and of children) is the benefactor of humanity caricatured
during December in every shop window and on every eleemosynary
corner. His mitre has degenerated into a hat trimmed with doubtful
fur; his embroidered cope has become a red jacket. But (except
when he rings a little bell and begs for alms) he has retained his
extra-episcopal function of giving. Saint Nicholas was a master of the
art of giving; and since we have taken him so seriously as to
transmogrify him into Santa Claus, we should profit by his illustrious
example and model our giving upon his.
How and what did Saint Nicholas give? Well, he gave tactfully
and opportunely and appropriately. There was the nobleman of Lucia
whose three daughters were starving to death. Saint Nicholas gave
them marriage portions, throwing purses of gold in at the window at
night. When he was in Myra he gave to the poor people all the wheat
that was in the ships in the harbour, promising the owners that when
they arrived at the port for which they were bound their ships would
still be full of wheat; and so it came about. To a drowned sailor and
to children who had been killed by a cannibal he gave the gift of life.
And to innocent men accused of treason and imprisoned he gave
freedom.
His first gift, you see, was money, his second life, his third
freedom. And thus he set an example to all the world. Now, it may
not be convenient for us to celebrate Christmas by throwing money
through the windows of apartments wherein repose dowerless young
women. Nor are life and freedom gifts for our bestowal. But it is at
any rate possible for us to imitate Saint Nicholas’s manner of giving;
to give tactfully, opportunely, and appropriately. There was nothing
especially characteristic of his episcopal functions in the gifts that
Saint Nicholas gave. Nor did he worry about whether or not they
reflected his personality. Let us make Santa Claus resemble Saint
Nicholas as closely as we can.
This business of expressing one’s personality by one’s gifts has
been carried to extraordinary lengths of late years. There are people
who actually select for all their friends and relatives things that they
themselves would like. If they consider themselves to be dainty—as
all women do—they give dainty presents, disregarding the fact that
the recipient may suffer acute physical pain at the mere thought of
daintiness.
They wish their beneficiaries to say on Christmas morning, “How
characteristic of Mrs. Slipslop to give me this exquisite Dresden
china chewing-gum holder,” instead of “How generous and
discerning of Mrs. Slipslop to give me this pair of rubber boots or this
jar of tobacco or this hypodermic syringe!” But what every child and
every grown person wants to receive is a gift suited to his tastes and
habits; it is a matter of indifference whether or not it expresses the
personality of the giver. Perhaps it will in his eyes supply the giver
with a new and charming personality.
You have hitherto regarded Mr. Blinker, the notorious efficiency
engineer, with disfavour. You have regarded him as a prosaic
theorist, a curdled mass of statistics. On Christmas morning you find
that he has presented you, not with an illuminated copy of “Rules for
Eliminating Leisure,” or a set of household ledgers or an alarm clock,
but with a cocktail set or a pool table or an angora kitten or some
other inefficient object.
At once your opinion of Mr. Blinker changes for the better. He
assumes a new and radiant personality. Your Sunday school teacher
has always exhibited to you virtues which you respect but do not
enjoy; she has seemed to you lacking in magnetism. If she gives you
for Christmas a Bible or a tale of juvenile virtue, you will write her a
graceful letter of thanks (at your mother’s dictation), but your
affection for the estimable lady will not be materially increased. But if
your Sunday school teacher gives you a bowie knife or a revolver or
a set of the Deadwood Dick novels! then how suddenly will the
nobility of your Sunday school teacher’s nature be revealed to you!
To elevator men, janitors, domestic servants, newspaper
deliverers, and other necessary evils we always give something
appropriate—money. And money does not express the personalities
of most of us. We—that is, the general public, the common people,
the populace, the average man, the great washed and the rest of us
—do our duty in this matter, following religiously the admirable
tradition of the Christmas box. But our retainers—if they will permit
us thus picturesquely to address them—do not. They serve us during
the year, and are duly paid for it, but they do nothing picturesque and
extraordinary at Christmas time to justify our gifts to them.
As a matter of fact, they are not upholding their part of the
tradition. It is not enough for them to bow, and say, “Thank you,”
while they feverishly count the money. They should revel
romantically, as did their predecessors who established the custom
by which they profit. The elevator boys should sing West Indian
carols under our windows—especially if our apartment is in the
twentieth story. The janitor and his family should enact in the
basement a Christmas miracle play.
It is pleasant to think of the janitor attired as a shepherd or as a
Wise Man, with his children as angels or as sheep, to picture the
Yule log on the janitorial hearth, and to hear in fancy, rising up the
dumbwaiter shaft, the strains of “The Carnal and the Crane,” or of
the excellent carol which begins: