“…The recovery of bioactive compounds from different waste materials has been the main focus of many scientific studies, since the agro-industries valorise these by-products, generating a large amount of phytochemicals, that can be applied as functional food compounds or as food ingredients, (e.g. colorants, emulsifiers, thickeners, antioxidants, among others) (Azeredo, 2009;Dias et al, 2016;Gong and Bassi, 2016). Although numerous methodologies can be found in literature for bioactive compounds recovery like ultrafiltration, supercritical fluid extraction, ultrasound extraction, resin adsorption, encapsulation and spray drying among others (da Silva et al, 2016;Destro dos Santos et al, 2016;Kaderides and Goula, 2017;Li et al, 2012;Medina-Meza and Barbosa-Cánovas, 2015;Yamashita et al, 2017), five distinct recovery stages can principally be observed: macroscopic pre-treatment, macro and micromolecules separation, extraction, purification and nutraceuticals formation (Galanakis, 2012).…”