Chitin and chitosan extraction from edible insects : characterization and comparison between different species and by-products

• Author(s): Navarro, Pedro ; Ribeiro, J.C. ; Anjos, O. ; Domingues, Fernanda ; Cunha, Luís Miguel
• Date: 2022
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/8621
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco
• Subject(s): Chitin; Chitosan; Edible insects
• Document Type: Conference object
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco

Description

The main goals of this work were to extract chitin and sinthetize chitosan from two different edible insect species - Tenebrio molitor larvae (TM) and Acheta domesticus (AD) as well as from by-products from A. domesticus processing (wings and legs-AD_WL).