From by-products to new application opportunities: the enhancement of the leaves deriving from the fruit plants for new potential healthy products
Lucia Regolo,
Francesca Giampieri,
Maurizio Battino
et al.
Abstract:In the last decades, the world population and demand for any kind of product have grown exponentially. The rhythm of production to satisfy the request of the population has become unsustainable and the concept of the linear economy, introduced after the Industrial Revolution, has been replaced by a new economic approach, the circular economy. In this new economic model, the concept of “the end of life” is substituted by the concept of restoration, providing a new life to many industrial wastes. Leaves are a by… Show more
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