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The Brassica genus (Brassicaceae family) is a large group of primarily herbaceous plants, one of the most important crops after soybean in world oilseed production, and as fresh vegetables, they are widely consumed throughout the year as part of salads or after cooking. This genus includes various types of well-known species such as cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kale, kohlrabi, pak choi, rape, turnip, mustard, and cress. Brassica plants are also distinguished from other vegetable plants by their high functional (phenolic and organosulfur compounds) and nutritional properties. Food losses and waste reduction are a worldwide challenge involving governments, researchers, and food industries. Therefore, by-product revalorization and the use of key extracted biocompounds to fortify innovative foods seems an interesting challenge to afford.
EAE is based on the use of enzymes to break down the cell walls of plant material and improve the extraction yield of its bioactive compounds. The main conditions to be considered are shown in Table 3. Most of the Brassica by-products used in the studies come from broccoli, radish, cauliflower, and cabbage. Before EAE, by-products are usually pretreated by grounding and drying (oven at 45–60 °C or using a freeze-dryer), although particle size is rarely detailed. The enzymes used were determined by the compound to be extracted. The main enzymes found were cellulase, hemicellulase, protease, pectinase, and glucanase, among others. Papaioannou and Liakopoulou-Kyrikides [23] used a fungus to facilitate the β-carotene production from Brassica by-products. Other green technologies combined with EAE, such as MWAE [20] and USAE [24], have been used to increase the extraction yield prior to enzymatic rupture of the cell walls. Only half of the articles summarized in Table 3 detail the enzyme inactivation conditions; two of them used heating for a few minutes and one used refrigeration. The solid:liquid ratio ranged from 10:40 to 5:500, like other extraction methods using green technologies. Extraction time was highly variable, ranging from 8.4 to 1200 min, but the temperature was limited between 26 [23] and 68 °C [20].