Actinidia arguta (Baby Kiwi) Waste: Preliminary Considerations on Seed Recovery

Fruit seed oils are of new interest due to their significant properties and can be a good opportunity recover fruit waste. Actinidia arguta (baby kiwi) fruits novelty in the market berries consumed with peels. Due limited shelf life, very perishable waste management techniques used post-harvest an important issue. Berry reused, for biological flows focused on food losses reduction. Therefore, baby kiwi samples were collected from Ortofruititalia company orchards Cuneo, Italy, then processed analysed oil constituents using standard analytical methods. The results this study indicate that unsaturated fatty acids most dominant (92.6 g/100 g) comparison saturated (7.4 g). In addition, α-linoleic acid (82.7 was acid. Additionally, γ-Tocopherol (0.023 tocopherol study. Extraction these could proposed as option obtaining high-added-value pharmaceutical cosmetics, among other uses.