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- The increasing environmental awareness is making it harder to dispose of high volumes of waste that contain proteins, particularly from the dairy industry.
- The article reviews the potential for recovering valuable proteins from milk by-products like whey and casein through various processes.
- It highlights the characteristics and applications of these proteins in non-food industries, such as textiles, packaging, and biomedical fields, promoting sustainability and opportunities in a circular economy.
Article Abstract
The disposal of a high volume of waste-containing proteins is becoming increasingly challenging in a society that is aware of what is happening in the environment. The dairy industry generates several by-products that contain vast amounts of compounds, including proteins that are of industrial importance and for which new uses are being sought. This article provides a comprehensive review of the potential of the valorisation of proteins that can be recovered by chemical and/or physical processes from protein-containing milk by-products or milk surplus, particularly whey proteins or caseins. Whey proteins and casein characteristics, and applications in non-food industries, with special emphasis on the textile industry, packaging and biomedical, are reported in this review, in order to provide knowledge and raise awareness of the sustainability of these proteins to potentiate new opportunities in a circular economy context.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7826712 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods10010135 | DOI Listing |
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