One of the food industry’s greatest challenges is to find natural ingredients capable of conferring antioxidant and color properties. In addition, the agri-food industry generates by-products that are often treated as waste, despite their abundance of phytochemicals that can be recovered and used as food ingredients. This study explores the potential of elderberry pomace, an industrial by-product of juice proce...
Serra da Estrela (SE) cheese is one of the most appreciated Portuguese cheeses, being produced only from raw ewe's milk, cardoon flower and salt. Cardoon takes part in two important processes in cheese production-coagulation and proteolysis-contributing to its unique features. Furthermore, milk chemical characteristics change during the milking season, being another factor that account for the high variability ...