Random removal of food wastes is one of the major environmental hazards around the globe. Annually about 15 million metric tons of foods are wasted in the U.S. and 1.6 billion metric tons around the world. Increasing efforts are continuing to utilize these foodstuff and related wastes in appropriate manner. Avocado (<i>Persea americana</i>) is a widely used healthy vegetable that contains a comparatively big seed. Mostly the seeds are thrown away as waste although oil is extracted in some cases but the husk is still thrown away. This is of great interest because, in general, the seed itself is considered as waste in our daily use. Accordingly, husk itself is considered as the waste of waste. The current project is set to focus on the chemical constituents that can be extracted from the avocado husk. Accordingly, the topic of interest is based on the waste (husk) of a waste (seed). Up to now oil and wax have been successfully extracted from the husk following cold extraction procedure and characterized by GC-MS analysis. The finding of this ongoing research will be presented.

Chemical investigation of avocado (<i>Persea americana</i>) seed husk: A waste of waste

254th National Meeting (2017)

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Chemical investigation of avocado (Persea americana) seed husk: A waste of waste