Passion fruit pomace gives rise to compounds with antioxidant benefits

The search for new products, especially those based on Brazilian biodiversity and with high added value, is what led startup Rubian to close the second technology licensing contract with Unicamp. The company licensed an extraction process applied to passion fruit pomace, with a focus on obtaining several bioactive compounds for application in the cosmetics segment.

The licensed technology is a sequential extraction process, developed by researchers from the Faculty of Food Engineering (FEA) at Unicamp, professor Julian Martínez and then doctoral student Juliane Viganó, and is the subject of the patent application BR10 2016 014976-2 deposited at INPI (National Institute of Industrial Property) by the Inova Unicamp Innovation Agency.

Read the full text on the Inova Unicamp page

 

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Julian Martínez and montage with passion fruit. Art: Paulo Cavalheri

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