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Title Extraction of High Value Products from Zingiber officinale Roscoe (Ginger) and Utilization of Residual Biomass
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Authors Spyrou, A; Batista, MGF; Corazza, ML; Papadaki, M; Antonopoulou, M
Title Extraction of High Value Products from Zingiber officinale Roscoe (Ginger) and Utilization of Residual Biomass
Year 2024
Published Molecules, 29.0, 4
DOI 10.3390/molecules29040871
Abstract Zingiber officinale Roscoe (ginger) is a plant from the Zingiberaceae family, and its extracts have been found to contain several compounds with beneficial bioactivities. Nowadays, the use of environmentally friendly and sustainable extraction methods has attracted considerable interest. The main objective of this study was to evaluate subcritical propane (scPropane), supercritical CO2 (scCO(2)), and supercritical CO2 with ethanol (scCO(2) + EtOH) as co-solvent methods for the extraction of high value products from ginger. In addition, the reuse/recycling of the secondary biomass in a second extraction as a part of the circular economy was evaluated. Both the primary and the secondary biomass led to high yield percentages, ranging from 1.23% to 6.42%. The highest yield was observed in the scCO(2) + EtOH, with biomass prior used to scCO(2) extraction. All extracts presented with high similarities as far as their total phenolic contents, antioxidant capacity, and chemical composition. The most abundant compounds, identified by the two different gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) systems present, were a-zingiberene, beta- sesquiphellandrene, a-farnesene, beta-bisabolene, zingerone, gingerol, a-curcumene, and gamma-muurolene. Interestingly, the reuse/recycling of the secondary biomass was found to be promising, as the extracts showed high antioxidant capacity and consisted of significant amounts of compounds with beneficial properties.
Author Keywords ginger valorization; supercritical extraction; subcritical extraction; antioxidant capacity; chemical composition; circular economy
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
EID WOS:001177066200001
WoS Category Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Research Area Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Chemistry
PDF https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/29/4/871/pdf?version=1708071672
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