1. Your Partner for Complete “New Product Development”
VALORIZATION FRUIT AND VEGETABLE
BY-PRODUCTS
IN FOOD INDUSTRY
October 2013

2. Every kind of fruit or
vegetable has got byproducts and they are
potantial to new product
sources before go to
dustbin!
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3. For example, zest and albedo are equal to
about 1/3 of the raw material in citrus fruits.
Citrus fruit peels may be used in food industry
after various processes and treatments. For
instance, they are used in paste and cake
production, jam production, and production of
fruit aroma, fruit extract or pectin production.
Another peel is equal to about 12 % of the raw
material in apple. Peel of apple is using to
produce pectin like lemon peel.(1)
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4. Broccoli sales in the market with whole
body but usually using 25% of the body in
to frozen industry or fresh to home
consumption. The rest of 75% broccoli
stems C vitamin content within reach to
186 mg/100 g. However orange C vitamin
content is 50 mg/100 g. Stem of broccoli
can be pass drying process and after it
can be use instant soup product.(1)
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5. Raw material - Fruit & Vegetables
FOOD PROCESS
storage
cleaning
cuting
reception
removing leaves
slicing
calibration
removing seeds
filling
elimination with
quality criteria of
clients
peeling
By-products
By-products
of
Fruit
&
Vegetables
are
peel,
zest
,albedo, seed, stem, leaves, pulp etc. The part of fruit and vegetables do
not used in the main production and these are not waste yet in the
process.
October 2013

6. Example of by-products and their potential valorization
Apple juice process
By-products
Peel
Source of pectin
production
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Pulp
Seeds
Source of Quercetin
(flavonoide, antioxydant)

7. Example of by-products and their potential valorization
Orange juice process
By-products
Peel
Source of bakery
industry ingredients
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Source of candy
industry ingredients
Source of flavor
industry

8. Example of by-products and their potential valorization
Broccoli frozen or
canned food process
By-products
Stem of broccoli has got high amount of C
vitamin and invert sugar
Source of invert
sugar production
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Source of soup
production
Source of garnish
for canned food or
frozen food industry

9. Example of by-products and their potential valorization
Corn frozen or canned
food process
(3)
By-products
Corn silk
Corn leaves
Production of tea or pharmacological product for treatment
of various disorders of urinary tract infection or kidney
October 2013

10. CREAFEM FOOD CONSULTING® is partner of "Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations : SAVE FOOD: Global Initiative on Food
Losses and Waste Reduction"
October 2013

11. CREAFEM FOOD CONSULTING® invites you to join the group
of « 1.3 billion ton per year food waste looking for future! Food
By-products Exchange Platform »
The aim of this project-platform create networking between food
producer and help them to create new value-added product with
food by-products such as peels, cores, seeds, pulp, leaves, stem or
sprouts, the part of the fruit and vegetable not used in the main
production activity.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/13-BILLION-TON-PER-YEAR-5189650/about
References for the presentation :
1) “Utilization of Food By-products In The Food Industry” by Muge Debrun. The Fifth International
Congress On Food Industry-New Aspects On Food Processing 1995.
2) Global Food Losses and Food Waste: Save Food at Interpack 2011 Düsseldorf, Germany, by J.
Gustavsson, C. Cederberg, U. Sonesson (SIK Sweden) et R. van Otterdijk, A. Meybeck (FAO Italy).
3) Photo by Photofarmer-Flickr
October 2013