Bioengineering in Solid-State Fermentation for next sustainable food bioprocessing

Solid-State Fermentation (SSF) is a breakthrough approach in the sustainable bioprocessing of foods that applies bioengineering techniques to enhance the accumulation of bioactive compounds in functional foods. A review of bioengineering strategies that optimize microbial growth and metabolite production in SSF systems is presented in this chapter, including novel bioreactor designs and genetic engineering of microorganisms combined with metabolic engineering. The present document also describes some of the important developments in the extraction and purification of bioactive molecules from SSF processes, with special emphasis on their potential for using waste from the food industry to reduce the…