Exploitation of Brewing Industry Wastes to Produce Functional Ingredients

Abstract

Nowadays, the consumers' global demand for healthier diets os steadily increasing, and the development of novel functional ingredients has become a focus of the food insutry. On the other hand, the accumulation of huge amounts of food wastes every yeas has led to environmental degradation and especially to significant loss of valuable material that coud otherwise be exploited as new health-promoting ingredients, fuels and great variety of additives. In this respect, the biggest challenge of the current scientific world is to convert the inderutilised by-products generated by the food and beverage industries into more profitable and maretable added value products which would also contribute significantly to meet the nowadays society needs. This chapter gives an overview regarding possibility of exploiting the brewing industry wastes as sources of bioactive compouds in order to produce functional ingredients and products with added value.