Extraction of High Value Products from Zingiber officinale Roscoe (Ginger) and Utilization of Residual Biomass

Zingiber officinale Roscoe (ginger) is a plant from the Zingiberaceae family, and its extracts have been found to contain several compounds with beneficial bioactivities. Nowadays, the use of environmentally friendly and sustainable extraction methods has attracted considerable interest. The main objective of this study was to evaluate subcritical propane (scPropane), supercritical CO2 (scCO2), and supercritical CO2 with ethanol (scCO2 + EtOH) as co-solvent methods for the extraction of high value products from ginger. In addition, the reuse/recycling of the secondary biomass in a second extraction as a part of the circular economy was evaluated. Both the primary and the secondary biomass led to high yield percentages, ranging from 1.23% to 6.42%. The highest yield was observed in the scCO2 + EtOH, with biomass prior used to scCO2 extraction. All extracts presented with high similarities as far as their total phenolic contents, antioxidant capacity, and chemical composition. The most abundant compounds, identified by the two different gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) systems present, were a-zingiberene, β- sesquiphellandrene, a-farnesene, β-bisabolene, zingerone, gingerol, a-curcumene, and γ-muurolene. Interestingly, the reuse/recycling of the secondary biomass was found to be promising, as the extracts showed high antioxidant capacity and consisted of significant amounts of compounds with beneficial properties.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

Enthalten in:

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) - 29(2024), 4 vom: 16. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Spyrou, Alexandra [VerfasserIn]
Batista, Marcelle G F [VerfasserIn]
Corazza, Marcos L [VerfasserIn]
Papadaki, Maria [VerfasserIn]
Antonopoulou, Maria [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

142M471B3J
Antioxidant capacity
Antioxidants
Carbon Dioxide
Chemical composition
Circular economy
Ginger valorization
Journal Article
Plant Extracts
Sesquiterpenes
Subcritical extraction
Supercritical extraction

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Date Completed 26.02.2024

Date Revised 27.02.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/molecules29040871

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368886107