Extraction of drug raw materials from pericarp and core in Chile

Chilean researchers announced Monday that they have used a series of biochemical processes to extract drugs for cancer and cardiovascular diseases from the discarded peel and core of agricultural processing industry Elvira, of Chile's Regional Center for healthy food research, said that the peel and core of many fruits contain a large number of antioxidants, which can effectively delay human aging and have a good effect on cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment In addition, plant fiber can also be obtained in the extraction process of antioxidant components, which can produce oligosaccharides capable of anti-cancer after different biochemical processes Elvira et al Began to study berries and constantly improved biochemical extraction methods Now this method can be applied to other fruits and dried fruits, such as kiwifruit, grape, tomato, sugarcane and walnut Elvira said that Chile is a big fruit exporter with a very developed fruit processing industry, but the resulting agricultural residues such as peel and core are also considerable This biochemical extraction method can not only solve the problem of residue treatment in agricultural processing industry, but also greatly improve the added value of these wastes.