The components of natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) are abundant in plants. This led to our hypothesis that NADES may play an important role solubilizing, storing, and transporting poorly water-soluble metabolites living cells, adjusting the water content plants, protecting cells when harsh conditions. In order test these hypothetical roles, diverse plant materials were analyzed, including...

In recent years a high demand for natural ingredients with nutraceutical properties has been witnessed, for which the development of more environmentally-friendly and cost-efficient extraction solvents and methods play a primary role. In this perspective, in this work, the application of deep eutectic solvents (DES), composed of quaternary ammonium salts and organic acids, as alternative solven...

Natural dyes can be poorly water-soluble, and improving their solubility with accurately designed solvents benefit application in most domains. Ionic liquids deep eutectic solvents, systems complex diverse intermolecular interactions, are capable of dissolving compounds different nature polarity. A remarkable increase three natural dyes, indigo, alizarin curcumin, is observed the ionic liquid 1...

In this work, a review about the applicability of eutectic solvents, mainly deep solvents (DES) and natural (NADES), for extraction bioactive compounds from products has been carried out. These alternative have shown not only to high yields but also be environmentally friendly, exhibiting very low or almost no toxicity, compared conventional organic solvents. The last trends main methods that m...