Cassava Post-Harvest Processing

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Cassava Biomaterial Innovations

Breakthrough innovations can spur growth in the modern era industry to realise sustainability and high returns on investments. Nowadays, biobased innovations for application in diverse industry sectors are considered as future pillars to counter resource depletion and ensure positive environmental impacts. Cassava is a strong flagship biomaterial promoting solution for resource-efficient use and green environment. Innovative industrial application of cassava biomaterials enriches literature, presenting cassava as a versatile and unrivalled crop that is cardinal for more sustainable environment and biodegradable industrial products. Work on novel cassava biomaterials, which are low-cost, unexploited and with zero competition for food supply, are included. Using an integrated sustainable process, it shows how to indirectly reduce waste streams, through their effective use, guaranteeing zero carbon footprints and acting as a non-traditional strategy for equilibrium atmosphere and active packaging systems. Applications of Cassava biomaterial in food, as food supplements and in packaging systems are also covered

**Keywords:** Cassava biomaterial, waste, integrated process, biodegradable products,

"Breakthrough innovations" is a hot topic aimed at stimulating industry research towards realisation of bioeconomy, sustainability, and high returns on investments. Eco-friendly inequities exist due to rapid population explosion, continuous resource exhaustion, industry biomaterial supply concerns and linear model of produceconsume-dispose [1]. Ultimately, innovative research solutions have been sought to ensure sustainability along the entire food system [2] to address the above challenges. The research solutions have been mainly in biobased industries, notably renewable resources, a component of sustainable biobased industries. However, bio-industries are subjected to considerable technological innovations and sustainable alternative challenges. Thus, the trend is geared towards developing integrated biorefineries with the goal of achieving availability and flexibility of multiple feedstocks' low inputs and maximum outputs [3]. There are several waste resources that can be valorised to produce unmatched feedstocks for the sustainable biorefinery developments. Examples of current integrated biorefinery feedstocks and products include vegetable oils, high value-added bio-lubricants, cosmetics and bioplastics

for Industry Applications

*Kashub Steven Tumwesigye, Jorge C. Oliveira,*

*Sheila Namuwaya and Maria Jose Sousa-Gallagher*

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