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VALUİNG ENDOGENOUS AND THERMAL RESOURCES İN THE PRODUCTİON OF HEALTHY FOOD: CHESTNUT BY-PRODUCT FLOUR WİTH THERMAL WATER
* 1 , * 2 , * 3
1  1Vigo University, Faculty of Law, Ourense Campus, Espanha. 1ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4525-9699 1acqgoncalves@gmail.com, +351 936625525
2  AquaValor—Centro de Valorização e Transferência de Tecnologia da Água, Portugal. 2ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3988-8927 2andre.lemos@aquavalor.pt, +351965026403
3  AquaValor—Centro de Valorização e Transferência de Tecnologia da Água, Portugal. Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal 3ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4629-3297 3maria.alves@ipb.pt, +351936209525
Academic Editor: Manuel Viuda-Martos

Abstract:

With the aim of enriching and innovating regional tourism and promoting new offerings based on two aspects that characterise the regions of Trás-os-Montes and Galicia, endogenous resources and thermal springs, this research has been launched, creating synergy between these two potentialities. Its main objective is to evaluate the contribution of incorporating thermal waters into the sustainable production of chestnut flour using chestnut by-products, shells and hedgehogs. This study involves obtaining more specific and concrete answers, such as demonstrating the viability of using chestnut by-products, shells and hedgehogs, in the production of chestnut flour. It is imperative to verify whether the introduction of chestnut by-products adds value to the nutritional characterisation of the product to be developed. The other variable under study is the introduction of thermal waters during the processing of the chestnut flour. These waters come from the thermal springs of Chaves, Portugal, and Ourense, Spain. Various chestnut formulations will be created with the different waters and by-products from the regions mentioned and then evaluated in terms of the chestnut flour's organoleptic, physical, chemical, and nutritional characteristics, as well as the effect of its consumption on human health. Once the most suitable formulation of sustainable chestnut flour with thermal water has been obtained, gastronomic experiments will be carried out with this new product to assess its degree of acceptance by consumers.

Keywords: chestnut, chestnut by-products, chestnut flour, thermal water and sustainability
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