Myco-biorefinery approaches for food waste valorization: Present status and future prospects

Mukesh Kumar Awasthi; Sharareh Harirchi; Taner Sar; Vigneswaran Vs; Karthik Rajendran; Ricardo Gómez-García; Coralie Hellwig; Parameswaran Binod; Raveendran Sindhu; Aravind Madhavan; A N Anoop Kumar; Vinod Kumar; Deepak Kumar; Zengqiang Zhang; Mohammad J Taherzadeh

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127592

Myco-biorefinery approaches for food waste valorization: Present status and future prospects

Bioresour Technol. 2022 Sep:360:127592. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127592. Epub 2022 Jul 6.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China. Electronic address: mukeshawasthi85@nwafu.edu.cn.
² Swedish Centre for Resource Recovery, University of Borås, Borås 50190, Sweden.
³ Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Sciences, SRM University-AP, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh 522240, India.
⁴ Universidade Católica Portuguesa, CBQF - Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina - Laboratório Associado, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Porto, Portugal.
⁵ Microbial Processes and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Trivandrum 695 019, Kerala, India.
⁶ Department of Food Technology, TKM Institute of Technology, Kollam 691 505, Kerala, India.
⁷ Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Jagathy, Thiruvananthapuram 695 014, Kerala, India.
⁸ Centre for Research in Emerging Tropical Diseases (CRET-D), Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Malappuram 673635, Kerala, India.
⁹ School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield MK43 0AL, UK.
¹⁰ Department of Chemical Engineering, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 402 Walters Hall, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA.
¹¹ College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China.

PMID: 35809874
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127592

Abstract

Increases in population and urbanization leads to generation of a large amount of food waste (FW) and its effective waste management is a major concern. But putrescible nature and high moisture content is a major limiting factor for cost effective FW valorization. Bioconversion of FW for the production of value added products is an eco-friendly and economically viable strategy for addressing these issues. Targeting on production of multiple products will solve these issues to greater extent. This article provides an overview of bioconversion of FW to different value added products.

Keywords: Bioconversion; Biorefinery; Food waste; Fungi; Waste valorization.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Food
Refuse Disposal*
Waste Management*