Colombia: Now broccoli and lettuce can be transformed and consumed in powder

At a time when the FAO and the World Food Program (WFP) speak of food insecurity in Colombia, a project to take advantage of the surplus broccoli and lettuce harvest is known. It is a work of the Colombian Agricultural Research Corporation Agrosavia and the Lasallian University Corporation, which identified and validated a process that allows the agro-industrial transformation of these surpluses into powder. The project is called "Harvest and post-harvest management technologies that contribute to increasing the useful life of lettuce, broccoli and alliaceous vegetables, guaranteeing their safety, quality and use of surpluses in Antioquia" and was financed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, which made it possible to identify by-products and co-products with high added value that can be obtained, economically viable and environmentally sustainable, from the use of broccoli and lettuce harvest residues as raw material. (Read: Diets with citrus pulp and vegetable ...