Aprovechamiento de cáscaras de frutas: análisis nutricional y compuestos bioactivos

The main of this work was to analyze the bromatological and bioactive content of agroindustrial waste from fruits and vegetables in order to give it an added value. For that, the papaya, carrot, eggplant and lime peel were used, which were previously dried, ground and sie ved to then determine the humidity, ash, fiber, protein, ether extract, as well as the extraction and quantification of compounds such as carotenes, total polyphenols, flavonoids, anthocyanins and antioxidant capacity. The results indicated that the papaya and eggplant peel presented the best bromatological quality characteristics for ash (10.45 and 9.2% respectively), protein (2.23 and 13.50%) and fiber (.643 and 1.88%) and antioxidant capacity (99.63 and 97.90% respectively) with which useful products could be developed in the food or pharmaceutical industry.