Local Fruit Wastes as a Potential Source of Natural Antioxidant: An Overview

• 发表在: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
• 主要作者: 2-s2.0-85023184731
• 格式: Conference paper
• 语言: English
• 出版: Institute of Physics Publishing 2017
• 在线阅读: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85023184731&doi=10.1088%2f1757-899X%2f206%2f1%2f012040&partnerID=40&md5=da78ea2aecc613fea9dd085a6064d1d3

Food industry in Malaysia which used fruits as one of the raw material such as the production of fruit juices, concentrates, jams and dried fruits, the main wastes of the production are the peel and the seed of the fruit. Nowadays, people have shown the interests to study the antioxidant content in the fruit wastes. All kind of fruits are believed to contain high amount of natural antioxidant properties such as vitamins, phenol, flavonoid and carotenoid. Thus, this paper presented the work done by researcher on antioxidant activity in the peel especially on local fruit such as mango peel, watermelon rind, banana peel and mangosteen pericarp. The review shows that the peel of the fruit is a good source of antioxidant and other bioactive compounds which have many benefits especially towards human health. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.