Citrus Waste Valorization: From Color to Wellness
摘要
Citrus fruits are enriched with a lot of colored pigments and refreshing scents along-with their nutritious and health aspects. These nutrients and pigments are normally wasted along-with waste portions of citrus fruit i.e., peel and rag etc. In the current era, it has been realized that citrus waste need not to be wasted. From color to wellness, citrus waste invites us to reimagine its potential. In this chapter, we explore how citrus peels can be utilized for both aesthetic and therapeutic purposes. Citrus waste materials can become the source of creativity, sustainability and human well-being by subjecting their utilization to make natural dyes to various other value-added products. Chapter will be comprised of mainly three sections. Section 19.2 focuses on citrus waste-based natural dyes focusing on the extraction techniques of various color pigments from the peel, their dyeing process and their use in sustainable fashion industry. Section 19.3 focuses on citrus peel-based essential oils and aromatherapy. Extraction methods of oil, antibacterial benefits of the citrus-based oils and their further utilization will be discussed. Section 19.4 focuses on the utilization of wasted citrus peel for development of cloudy concentrated citrus juices, their production technology, nutritional and economic benefits.