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

Roscoe (ginger) is a plant from the 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 evalu...

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Published in:Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2024-02, Vol.29 (4), p.871
Main Authors: Spyrou, Alexandra, Batista, Marcelle G F, Corazza, Marcos L, Papadaki, Maria, Antonopoulou, Maria
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
antioxidant capacity
Antioxidants
Antioxidants - pharmacology
Biomass
Carbon Dioxide - analysis
chemical composition
circular economy
Ethanol
ginger valorization
Plant Extracts - chemistry
Sesquiterpenes
Solvents
subcritical extraction
supercritical extraction
Viscosity
Zingiber officinale
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Summary:Roscoe (ginger) is a plant from the 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 CO (scCO ), and supercritical CO with ethanol (scCO + 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 scCO + EtOH, with biomass prior used to scCO 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.
ISSN:1420-3049
1420-3049
DOI:10.3390/molecules29040871