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Towards sustainable management of tomato pomace through the recovery of valuable compounds and sequential production of low-cost biosorbent

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The present study focused on the full valorization of the tomato by-product, also known as tomato pomace consisting mainly of tomato peels and tomato seeds, by recovering natural antioxidants and edible oil, and subsequently reutilizing the leftover solid residues for the production of low-cost biosorbent. The tomato peel extract recovered using ethanol as food-grade solvent contained high phenol and flavonoid contents (199.35 ± 0.35-mg gallic acid equivalents (GAE)/g and 102.10 ± 0.03-mg quercetin equivalent (QE)/g, respectively). Even its lower content of lycopene (3.67 ± 0.04 mg/100 g), tomato peel extract showed potent antioxidant activity and can be therefore used as natural antioxidants either for food or cosmetic applications. High nutritional quality edible oil (17.15%) was extracted from tomato seeds and showed richness in unsaturated fatty acids (74.62%), with linoleic acid being the most abundant polyunsaturated fatty acid (49.70%). After recovery of these valuable compounds, the extraction solid leftovers were used to produce low-cost biosorbent tested for dye removal. Results showed that the highest biosorption yields were increasingly attributed to the acidic, direct, anthraquinone, then reactive dyes. Overall, the obtained results strongly support the complete utilization of tomato pomace for the recovery of valuable compounds and the sequential production of low-cost biosorbent.

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The authors would like to express their gratitude to Professor Slah Kammoun from the National Engineering School of Sfax for hel** in performing FT-IR spectra.

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  1. Laboratoire Analyse Valorisation et Sécurité des Aliments, Université de Sfax, ENIS, Sfax, Tunisia

    Samia Azabou

  2. Laboratoire de Biochimie et de Génie Enzymatique des Lipases, Université de Sfax, ENIS, Sfax, Tunisia

    Ibtihel Louati & Tahar Mechichi

  3. Faculté de Pharmacie, Laboratoire d’Analyse, Traitement et Valorisation des Polluants de l’Environnement et des Produits, Université de Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia

    Fadia Ben Taheur

  4. Laboratoire de Génie Enzymatique et de Microbiologie, Université de Sfax, ENIS, Sfax, Tunisia

    Moncef Nasri

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Azabou, S., Louati, I., Ben Taheur, F. et al. Towards sustainable management of tomato pomace through the recovery of valuable compounds and sequential production of low-cost biosorbent. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 39402–39412 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-09835-5

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