Fatty acid ethyl esters (Faee): A new, green and renewable solvent for the extraction of carotenoids from tomato waste products

Aurel Diacon; Ioan Călinescu; Mircea Vinatoru; Petre Chipurici; Alexandru Vlaicu; Aurelian Cristian Boscornea; Timothy J. Mason

doi:10.3390/molecules26144388

Fatty acid ethyl esters (Faee): A new, green and renewable solvent for the extraction of carotenoids from tomato waste products

Aurel Diacon
, Ioan Călinescu
, Mircea Vinatoru
, Petre Chipurici
, Alexandru Vlaicu
, Aurelian Cristian Boscornea
, Timothy J. Mason

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Abstract

Currently there is a drive towards the minimisation and reclamation of valuable materials from the waste products of the food and beverage industry. This can be achieved through the extraction of residual nutraceuticals from such materials. Tomato pomace contains carotenoids and other chemicals which can be extracted directly into edible oils to improve the health‐giving properties of such oils. We report here a novel green solvent, fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEE), which is significantly more effective than sunflower oil and hexane for the extraction of lycopene and beta-carotene from tomato skin waste. FAEE are a non‐toxic renewable resource that is environmentally friendly and to our knowledge has never been used as a vegetal extraction fluid. The efficiency of FAEE extraction was significantly improved relative to both sunflower oil and hexane under ultra-sound‐assisted extraction (UAE) conditions. In addition, FAEE have the additional and significant advantage that once enriched with the extracted nutraceuticals can be used directly as a food addi-tive.

Original language	English
Article number	4388
Number of pages	9
Journal	Molecules
Volume	26
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26144388
Publication status	Published - 20 Jul 2021

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© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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This work was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Digitization, CNCS/CCCDI—UEFISCDI, project number PCE 12/2021, within PNCDI III”. The authors would like to acknowledge the use of laboratory equipment procured through the Competitiveness Operational Program 2014–2020, Action 1.1.4: Attracting high-level personnel from abroad in order to enhance the RD capacity, project: P_37_471, “ULTRA_MINT Technologies”, financed by the contract: 47/05.09.2016.

Funding

This work was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Dig\u2010 itization, CNCS/CCCDI\u2014UEFISCDI, project number PCE 12/2021, within PNCDI III\u201D. The authors would like to acknowledge the use of laboratory equipment procured through the Competitiveness Operational Program 2014\u20132020, Action 1.1.4: Attracting high\u2010level personnel from abroad in order to enhance the RD capacity, project: P_37_471, \u201CULTRA_MINT Technologies\u201D, financed by the con\u2010 tract: 47/05.09.2016.

Funders	Funder number
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
Colegiul Consultativ pentru Cercetare-Dezvoltare şi Inovare
Corporation for National and Community Service
Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii	47/05.09.2016, PCE 12/2021, P_37_471
Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii
European Commission	229642
European Commission

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Beta‐carotene
FAEE
Green solvent
Green technique
Lycopene
Ultrasound‐assisted extraction (UAE)
UV‐vis spectroscopy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Analytical Chemistry
Chemistry (miscellaneous)
Molecular Medicine
Pharmaceutical Science
Drug Discovery
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Organic Chemistry

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