Supercritical CO2 Coprocessing of Agricultural Materials for the Extraction of Bioactives
摘要
Supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) extraction offers environmental advantages over other techniques for extracting bioactive compounds from plant biomass. The effectiveness of scCO2 extraction can be enhanced by including a cosolvent in the process. When a vegetal oil is used as a cosolvent, further separation stages would be avoided, and a final product with improved functional and biological properties for food and nutraceutical products can be obtained. Coextraction or the joint extraction of bioactives from a primary solid matrix and an oil, acting as a cosolvent, from a secondary matrix, has been proposed as a solvent-free approach. This review presents an overview on the potential of coextraction as a strategy to valorize food and agricultural wastes and to develop novel products, containing both the solute and the cosolvent in a valuable, more stable, and bioavailable formulation of the bioactives.