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The goal of this publication is to direct us towards circularity and sustainability as we engage in our daily lives.
When we start this year, I would like to embark on another sustainable expedition by exploring agroprocessing.
What comes to mind when this catchy phrase is mentioned?
Agroprocessing
It’s not new, it’s food processing.
Our ancestors preserved meat and foam through smoking and salting techniques.
Milk was preserved by converting it to yogurt.
The vegetables were boiled and steamed to increase their shelf life.
However, the term “processed food” has a completely different meaning today.
Some of the foods found on supermarket shelves are actually super processed. This means that artificial additives such as sugar, salt, food coloring and flavorings may have been added to seduce consumers.
Unfortunately, the produce is not released from the super processed food hooks.
Old and safe ways to preserve foods, such as smoking, have been replaced by artificial chemicals such as sodium benzoate.
Other chemicals, such as sodium nitrite, are widely used to preserve meat, but uncruel traders are known to use formalin to make milk for many years.
Formalin (or formaldehyde) exposure has been associated with the development of cancer.
Now, let me be clear.
The agroprocessing I’m trying to talk about is a world apart from these chemical errors that put people’s health at risk.
Instead, it relates to everyday use of fruits and vegetables to create value without wasting.
So let’s dive into such fruits.
avocado
It blends into a thick smoothie and just enjoys it by micking it with your favorite stew or converting it to a gorgeous guacamole, avocados are superfood in many ways.
Avocados are packed with healthy fats, vitamins and minerals because they contain less sugary fruit.
And one way to capture value from bthi fruit is to eat it.
Another way to extract these oils makes them extremely healthy to eat.
But why do we bother extracting avocado oil when we can eat it?
Avocado oil
Interestingly, avocado oil is used in beauty parlors to make women’s hair beautiful.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Research shows that avocado oil is ranked the best of the many edible oils available.
In fact, it aces the olive oil just because it has a very high smoke point (270°C). This means it’s safe to fried food.
Avocado oil has good unsaturated fats and low concentrations of linoleic acid, which causes intestinal inflammation.
It is extracted by multinational companies using centrifugation methods.
However, cold pressing methods are great for maintaining nutritional levels. This will result in a very good market price for oil fetching.
This is done by drying the pulp in the shade for several days and pressing the oily pulp to collect the oil.
Pulp cakes can be used to make or compost livestock feed.
But that’s not the end of the avocado fruit story.
seed
Avocado seeds are known to carry considerable levels of antioxidants.
These are minerals that help us fight the environmental poisons around us.
The seeds could be mixed with several herbs and then dried as a herbal tea supplement and stuffed into powder.
Enjoying hot herbal avocado seed tea is one of the surest ways to improve your health than a long hole.
In addition to tea, avocado seeds can be converted into powder and used as a release agent in soapmaking.
Exfoliating agents do a good job in this regard, particles that help to dispose of dead skin during the bath, and avocado seeds with their antioxidant properties, which have sand size added to soap. You can do it.
Seeds can also be used to create natural red pigments.
pulp?
seed?
It leaves us skin.
What can you do with avocado skin?
In addition to composting, the skin can also be dried and ground to make it a soap exfoliating agent.
However, some avocado skins have a considerable amount of oil and can also be extracted with a high temperature or cold press.
The conclusion is
In other words, we can choose avocado fruit and develop more than three products from there: oil, soap, pigment, tea, compost, etc.
This is what we are talking about in the circular agricultural process.
Integrating circularity into afroprocessing can help reduce or cut off waste, create new revenue streams and create jobs.
This is a discussion we hope to have over the next few weeks.
I started with avocados.
Which other fruits and vegetables do we discuss?
cheers.
