Essential oils are natural products which have many interesting applications. Extraction of
essential oils from plants is performed by classical and innovative methods. Numerous …

Natural bioactive compounds include a broad diversity of structures and functionalities that
provide an excellent pool of molecules for the production of nutraceuticals, functional foods …

Red fruits, as rich antioxidant foods, have gained over recent years capital importance for
consumers and manufacturers. The industrial extraction of the phenolic molecules from this …

This review introduces a new and innovative area in the frontiers of chemistry, biology and
processing: green extraction with special emphasis on natural products processing. Green …

Drying is considered as the most common and fundamental technique for the postharvest
preservation of herbs and is regarded as a good process to retain bioactive compounds …

Recently, there has been an increasing demand for bioactive compounds from plants that
can be used in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industry. This is due to their presumed …

This review presents useful and green techniques of solvent-free extraction used in ancient
times, such as extraction of olive oil and citrus essential oil, and innovative techniques, such …

Essential oils are composite mixtures of volatile compounds most frequently present at low
concentrations in plants. Several different extraction techniques are widely employed for the …

This study aims at total valorization of fruit and vegetable by-products, moving towards
developing an original concept of a “dry” bio-refinery (DBR). Indeed, all valuable products …

Extraction has been used probably since the discovery of fire. Egyptians and Phoenicians,
Jews and Arabs, Indians and Chinese, Greeks and Romans, and even Mayans and Aztecs …