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ReviewOpen life sciences2025

Toxicological qualities and detoxification trends of fruit by-products for valorization: A review.

Zenebe Tadesse Tsegay, Slim Smaoui, Theodoros Varzakas

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Zenebe Tadesse TsegayDepartment of Food Science and Post-Harvest Technology, College of Dryland Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mekelle University, P.O. Box 231, Mekelle, Ethiopia.
Slim SmaouiLaboratory of Microbial and Enzymatic Biotechnologies and Biomolecules, Center of Biotechnology of Sfax (CBS), University of Sfax, Road of Sidi Mansour Km 6, P.O. Box 1177, Sfax, 3018, Tunisia.
Theodoros VarzakasDepartment of Food Science and Technology, University of the Peloponnese, Antikalamos, 24100, Kalamata, Greece.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The abundant and renewable resources from fruit by-products are getting emphasis on their valorization. These by-products may contain toxic substances due to factors such as cultivation, harvesting, transportation, preservation, or processing. Hence, presenting scientific overviews of the toxicological qualities and detoxification trends of these by-products are critical for implicating their possible valorization. The present demand for valorization of fruit by-products requires emphasis and methodologies for the detoxification of any toxicants to develop healthier products. This review emphasized the toxicological qualities of by-products from fruits for which the maximum global production occurred in 2022. In this review, heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, nickel, lead, and mercury), mycotoxins, toxicant organic compounds, anti-nutritional factors, and pesticide/fungicide residues of the selected fruit byproducts were discussed. Current trends to reduce possible toxicants of these by-products during their valorization were emphasized. Novel functional foods valorized from these fruit by-products and future perspectives of detoxification were also focused on in this review.

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by-productsdetoxificationfruitqualitiestoxicologyvalorization

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PMID40417003
PMCPMC12103188

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