ABSTRACT
Proteins represent a group of macromolecules that display diverse biological functions and perform a key role in human nutrition. Proteins also serve as a source of bioactive peptides that represent a group of emergent functional molecules exhibiting a vast number of bioactivities. These bioactive peptides are in fact exploited in diverse fields as health promoters, food quality protectors or food and cosmeceutical ingredients. Bioactive peptides could be released from a wide range of proteins; nevertheless, their functionality and proper adequation as products are highly related to the employed raw material. Food wastes represent an important alternative in the search of novel strategies to produce bioactive peptides. This is in addition to the fact that the industry and the entire world demands the implementation of waste reduction, whole products exploitation and minimizing costs in this class of emerging procedures. The aim of this chapter is to analyze the implementation of diverse food wastes in bioactive peptides production, their classical production methodologies and their actual applications.
