“…A variety of peel wastes have been explored for biovalorization, including durian (Siwina & Leesing, 2021 ), pomegranate (Rayasam et al., 2020 ; Roukas & Kotzekidou, 2020 ), pineapple (Khan et al., 2021 ; Umesh et al., 2019 ), and watermelon. However, the majority of research has focused on citrus peels from industrial juice and marmalade production, as world production volumes are nearly 100 million tons annually ( USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, n.d. ; Khan et al., 2021 ), and 50–60 wt% of the actual fruit processed typically ends up as waste (peels, pulps, seeds) (Negro et al., 2016 ). Not surprisingly, citrus waste has recently been explored for the production of lipids (Carota et al., 2020 ), succinic acid (Patsalou et al., 2020 ), OGs (Yang et al., 2020 ), bioflocculants (Qi et al., 2020 ), and meso-galactaric acid (Protzko et al., 2018 ).…”