Effect of sterilisation on dietary fibre and physicochemical properties of onion by-products

Food industries are forced to develop productions without secondary residues. Therefore, there is a considerable emphasis on the recovery, recycling and upgrading of wastes. The possibility has been suggested for the conversion of onion waste into food ingredients, but with a stabilisation treatment being necessary. The objective of this work was to study the effect of sterilisation on fibre fractions, fibre composition and physicochemical properties of onion by-products to evaluate the use of sterilised onion by-products as a source of fibre.