The present work is focused on the revalorization of waste materials from the wine industry such as grape seed for the obtaining of grape oil using supercritical fluid technology. Malbec grape seed was used as raw material to obtain supercritical grape oil, as a potential value added product for both the pharmaceutical and food industries. An initial stage, the physicochemical characterization of the raw material was performed and the results obtained were: humidity (11.4%), proteins (8.1%), ashes (2.5%), fats (11.5%) and carbohydrates (66.5%). In the second stage, preliminary extraction tests with supercritical fluids were carried out using CO2 as a solvent. The following fixed operating parameters were established: average particle size (522.15 μm), supercritical extraction time in steady state (30 minutes), supercritical extraction time in dynamic state (180 minutes) and CO2 flowrate...

This research was funded by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica-Concytec (Project: Equipamiento Científico 2018-01/E044-2018-01-BM, Contrato N◦ 012-2018-Fondecyt/BM) of the Peruvian Government, The World Bank Group, the Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza de Amazonas and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. The APC was funded by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica-Concytec.

This research was funded by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica-Concytec (Project: Equipamiento Científico 2018-01/E044-2018-01-BM, Contrato N◦ 012-2018-Fondecyt/BM) of the Peruvian Government, The World Bank Group, the Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza de Amazonas and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. The APC was funded by the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica-Concytec

Cocoa beans are the main raw material for the manufacture of chocolate and are currently gaining great importance due to their antioxidant potential attributed to the total phenolic content (TPC) and the monomeric flavan-3-ols (epicatechin and catechin). The objective of this study was to determine the degradation kinetics parameters of TPC, epicatechin, and catechin during the roasting process of Criollo cocoa for 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 min at 90, 110, 130, 150, 170, 190, and 200 °C. The results showed a lower degradation of TPC (10.98 ± 6.04%) and epicatechin (8.05 ± 3.01%) at 130 °C and 10 min of roasting, while a total degradation of epicatechin and a 92.29 ± 0.06% degradation of TPC was obtained at 200 °C and 50 min. Reaction rate constant () and activation energy () were 0.02–0.10 min−1 and 24.03 J/mol for TPC and 0.02–0.13 min−1 and 22.51 J/mol for epicatechin, respe...