Turning Food Protein Waste into Sustainable Technologies.

ABSTRACT: For each kilogram of food protein wasted, between 15 and 750 kg of CO₂ end up in the atmosphere. With this alarming carbon footprint, food protein waste not only contributes to climate change but also significantly impacts other environmental boundaries, such as nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, global freshwater use, change in land composition, chemical pollution, and biodiversity loss. This contrasts sharply with both the high nutritional value of proteins, as well as their unique chemical and physical versatility, which enable their use in new materials and innovative technologies. In this review, we discuss how food protein waste can be efficiently valorized not only by reintroduction into the food chain supply but also as a template for the development of sustainable technolo

SUBMITTER: Peydayesh M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9999431 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature