{"id":117624,"date":"2023-10-10T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/a-green-approach-to-upcycle-vegetable-waste\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T05:00:21","slug":"a-green-approach-to-upcycle-vegetable-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/a-green-approach-to-upcycle-vegetable-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"A Green Approach To Upcycle Vegetable Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117624\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore have devised an environmentally friendly method that turns vegetable waste into health and personal care products. Their approach could give vegetable waste a new lease of life and make the extraction of beneficial plant compounds more sustainable and cost effective. Researchers led by Prof. Hu Xiao from NTU\u2019s School of Materials Science and Engineering, and a program director in the Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (NEWRI), tested the ability of NADESs with various formulations to extract phytochemicals from kale.<\/p>\n<p>The key findings of the study are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The green solvent system gave the highest yield of polyphenols, more than two times higher than conventional methanol methods.<\/li>\n<li>The polyphenol extract was stable in the new green solvent system, retaining 91.7% and 88.6% of the original contents after 30 days of storage at 4 and 25 \u2070C, respectively.<\/li>\n<li>Other green solvents such as ethyl acetate can be added to the solvent mixture to obtain a polyphenol-rich extract and an extract rich in carotenoids and chlorophylls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The researchers say that manufacturers can add the extract directly into the formula of their cosmetic products without further processing, reducing production time. In the study, the researchers found that almost all bioactive compounds were more effectively recovered from the wet kale paste than the dried powder, as the water in the paste diluted the NADESs. This simplifies the extraction process as no additional water is required, and also removes the need for an energy-intensive step to dry the kale waste. The team has filed a patent in Singapore for the innovation. For their next steps, the researchers are investigating if their newly developed method can extract beneficial compounds from other types of fruits and vegetables, like dragon fruit, spinach, lettuce and other medicinal plants. The team is exploring new partnerships to scale up their technology towards commercialization.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technologynetworks.com\/applied-sciences\/articles\/a-green-approach-to-upcycle-vegetable-waste-379661\">Techonolgy Networks<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/1-413\/\">A Green Approach To Upcycle Vegetable Waste<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,11269,5865],"class_list":["post-117624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-upcycling","tag-vegetables"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}