• Explains the use of organic wastes as a source of components to increase nutritional and functional properties of traditional food products • Presents new technologies for utilization of wastes from the meat, dairy, and wine industry among others • Covers the development and application of a number of electrochemical mono- and multi-biosensors based on different enzymes

• This book involves not only the fundamentals of plants biotechnology for secondary metabolites productions but also metabolomic aspects of medicinal plants, bioactivity issues and bioengineering approaches for food and pharmaceutical industries. • It is unique in that it covers industrial applications of plant secondary metabolites in food and pharmaceutical applications • In addition to food scientists it will attract interest from researchers in basic studies, research scientists, in the plant biotechnology field, technical staff of processing industries, and private and public organizations involved with plant biotechnology, plant cell culture and metabolites production topics

Contains updated information about recent research works on Latin American crops. Includes a variety of Latin American plant species that are used in a great variety of innovative and traditional foods. Addresses a wide range of topics related to agronomy, plant physiology, and nutritional and technological properties, processing, fractionation and development of new products for human health.