Peer-reviewed, open access Advances in Agronomy, Plant Breeding and Horticulture ISSN: 2736-1802 (DOI: doi.org/10.51268/AAPBH) journal offers quick publication (monthly). This journal's goal is to give scientists and researchers from all over the world a genuine forum to communicate, discuss, and promote a wide range of cutting-edge concepts and advancements in all areas of agronomy, plant breeding, and horticulture. Manuscripts that satisfy the general requirements of relevance and scientific excellence are welcome submissions to the journal. After acceptance, papers will be published shortly. Peer review is applied to every manuscript published in Advances in Agronomy, Plant Breeding, and Horticulture.

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Horticulture and viticulture have always been major activities within agriculture in Hungary. Climatic and soil conditions are favourable in our country. Variety is a very important factor in this culture because its genetic- and bio-potential can be used the most economically. Plant breeding began with the cross-breeding of plough land plants in 1863.

Horticulture waste presents high amounts of bioactive compounds, especially in fruit industrial processing, where the amount of waste generated depends on fruit (mango 30%–50%, banana 20%, pomegranate 40%–50%, and citrus 30%–50%). Many compounds have been identified in these biowastes, such as phenolic acids, cinnamic acids, flavonoids, proanthocyanidines, anthocyanidins, carotenoids, sterols, tocopherols, among others (Ayala-Zavala et al., 2011)

Most of the bioactive compounds obtained from horticultural waste are polyphenols, which have been considered important due to their ability to scavenge free radicals and prevent oxidative reactions in food. The biological basis to explain the health benefits of polyphenols relates to their well-established antioxidant properties. From a structural point of view, polyphenols can be classified into two major distinguishable classes. The first and largest one is the flavonoids, whose basic structure includes 2 benzene rings (A and B) that are linked through 3 carbon atoms that frequently form an oxygenated pyran heterocyclic ring (C) (Fig. 19.3). The second class of polyphenols, defined as nonflavonoid phenolics, includes a more heterogeneous group of compounds with an important subclass, the phenolic acids.

The addition of natural bioactive compounds as a source of antioxidants to replace synthetic additives is of great interest for the food industry. Antioxidants from banana peels, mangoes, tomatoes, and pineapple by-products have been incorporated to juice, biscuits, buffalo ghee, vegetable oils, potato chips, dry-cured sausage, hamburgers, etc. Thus food industries can use horticultural waste as natural ingredients for the formulation of functional foods.