Valorisation of Food Waste

<p>This book explores innovative strategies for repurposing food waste with a strong focus on process and product design. It highlights diverse food waste sources including expiring materials and often overlooked resources offering a comprehensive evaluation of technologies methods and sustainable solutions to address the global challenge of food waste.</p><p><strong>Key Features:</strong></p><ul> <li>Offers guidelines and a food waste valorisation framework</li> <li>Presents unique pathways for valorising food waste and expired food</li> <li>Delves into principles and strategies for food waste valorisation transforming food waste into building and construction materials upcycling food waste and extracting bioactive compounds from expired sources</li> <li>Explores converting food waste into biochar biofuel and maximising biogas production as well as utilising bioconversion technology with Black Soldier Fly larvae and integrating the water–energy–food nexus</li> <li>Each chapter includes exercises and case studies to enhance understanding and practical application</li> </ul><p>This text is aimed at academics engineers technologists and researchers in the food pharmaceutical and chemical industries.</p>