Green solvents for the extraction of bioactive compounds from natural products using ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents

Publication date: Available online 15 April 2019Source: Current Opinion in Food ScienceAuthor(s): Young Hae Choi, Robert VerpoorteGreen 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.
Source: Current Opinion in Food Science - Category: Food Science Source Type: research