Green solvents for the extraction of bioactive compounds from natural products: from supercritical fluid extraction to ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents

Author(s):
Choi, Y.H. (0000-0003-1484-1700); Verpoorte, R. (0000-0001-6180-1424)
Published
2019
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

Green technology is moving from an option to a must in modern industrial processing. Solvents are the core of the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, agrochemical, chemical, and biotechnological process technologies. In the past two decades, supercritical fluids, ionic liquids, and deep eutectic solvents became the most actively investigated as potential green solvents, especially in the field associated with food, flavors, fragrances, and medicinal plants processing. This review assesses recent information about the novel solvent technologies.

Date issued
2019-04-15
Language
English
Is part of
Current Opinion in Food Science (2019), Vol. 26, p. 87-93
hdl
1887/85137
doi
10.1016/j.cofs.2019.04.003