Spain: The UCLM and Vicente Peris, together in obtaining functional foods with the use of pumpkin and melon seed oils

Valuing the by-products generated by its activity in IV and V range, is one of the objectives in which the producer and marketer of fruits and vegetables, Vicente Peris, works. For this reason, they accepted without hesitation the collaboration in a project at the University of Castilla-La Mancha that seeks to create functional foods, substituting saturated fats for other polyunsaturated and antioxidants, from pumpkin and melon seed oils, among others. Peris prepares, at the request of the research group, various batches of melyn and pumpkin seeds, and sends them to the Albacete campus of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, where they are received by the team of Josý Emilio Pardo Gonzýlez, responsible for the project and Professor at the ETS de Ingenieros y Agrýnomos y Montes. There they take care of the cleaning and preparation of the seeds for grinding, the extraction of the oil with a hydraulic press and the characterization of the oils obtained. The project "Formulation and ...