Expected Results

GRAPE_ANTHO aims at the development of an environmentally friendly method for the management of solid winery by-products, allowing the extraction of bioactive compounds that can be further used for the development of food additives exerting neuroprotective effects and the potential to prevent and/or delay neurodegenerative disorders and other age-related diseases development and progression.

Through the implementation of this project we anticipate to gain several environmental, financial and social benefits, as outlined below:

• Significantly reduce the environmental footprint of wineries, by providing an environmentally friendly solution for managing the solid waste generated by their operation
• Reduce the costs associated with winery by-products processing, required before their safe disposal, using traditional methods
• Establish business advantages by providing novel, cost effective methods for extraction of anthocyanin-rich fractions using winery by-products as raw material
• Provide scientific data on the neuroprotective and antioxidant effects of anthocyanins and anthocyanin-rich extracts against neurodegenerative diseases
• Develop and commercialize novel products with added value based on anthocyanin-rich extracts from winery-byproducts, promoting further pharmaceutical industry applications
• Contribute to the prevention and/or delayed progression of neurodegenerative diseases, which is expected to improve affected individual’ quality of life and reduce nursing costs