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Pineapple Waste Utilization as a Sustainable Means of Waste Management

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Pineapple waste contains various substances that are valuable for the development of new and emerging technologies, nutraceuticals, food, pharmaceuticals, as well as biogas and bioethanol production. Bromelain extraction from pineapple waste is a very highly looked into area, while dietary fibers and phenolic antioxidants could be used as impending nutraceutical resource, capable of offering significant low-cost nutritional dietary supplement for low-income communities. The booming market of functional food has created a vast vista for utilization of natural resources. In this regard, cheap substrates, such as pineapple wastes, have promising prospect. Thus, environmentally polluting by-products could be converted into products with a higher economic value than the main product; hence with sustainable utilization of pineapple waste and with application of novel scientific and technological methods, valuable products from pineapple wastes could be obtained.

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  1. Institute of Bioproduct Development, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia

    Zainab Rabiu

  2. Department of Biochemistry, Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano, Kano State, Nigeria

    Zainab Rabiu & Umma Lawan

  3. Department of Biochemistry, Gombe State University, Gombe, Nigeria

    Fatima U. Maigari

  4. Department of Science Laboratory Technology, School of Technology, Kano State Polytechnic, Kano, Kano State, Nigeria

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Rabiu, Z., Maigari, F.U., Lawan, U., Mukhtar, Z.G. (2018). Pineapple Waste Utilization as a Sustainable Means of Waste Management. In: Zakaria, Z. (eds) Sustainable Technologies for the Management of Agricultural Wastes. Applied Environmental Science and Engineering for a Sustainable Future. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5062-6_11

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