Nutritional and Pharmacological Properties of Agro-Industrial By-Products from Commonly Consumed Fruits

• Main Author: Wan Ishak, Wan Rosli
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Sains Malaysia 2018
• Subjects: R5-920 Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/43149/1/SDRP_JFST_Nutri-Pharma_2018_%28tidak_dijumpai_dalam_sherpa_romeo.pdf; http://eprints.usm.my/43149/; https://www.siftdesk.org/article-details/NUTRITIONAL-AND-PHARMACOLOGICAL-PROPERTIES-OF-AGRO-INDUSTRIAL-BY-PRODUCTS-FROM-COMMONLY-CONSUMED-FRUITS/350

Presently, there is growing interest to use agricultural wastes as by-products for further exploitation as food additives or supplements. The waste product which is typically thrown into the environment has been re-vealed to exhibit certain nutritional and pharmacolog-ical properties. Some functional compounds have been reported to exert significant nutritional and pharmacological properties such as antioxidant, anti-cancer, antidiabetic, antimicrobial, etc. Based on re-cent literature, many reports or studies focused on the utilization and pharmacological effects of some se-lected agro-industrial by-products. This trend could provide the theoretical basis for further rational de-velopment and utilization of the waste for the thera-peutic and health purposes. Keywords: fruits by-products, fruits waste, nutrition-al value, pharmacological properties