“…Ionic liquids not only have the ability to dissolve and pretreat complex raw materials, but they can be also designed to selectively extract target compounds due to their tailoring ability. Nonetheless, when compared with their use in the extraction of value added products from biomass (Passos et al, 2014), few studies addressed the ILs application in the recovery of value added compounds from real food waste (Lateef et al, 2009; Bi et al, 2010; Qin et al, 2010; Bica et al, 2011; Guolin et al, 2012; Setoguchi et al, 2012; Cláudio et al, 2013, 2018; Jiao et al, 2013; Ge et al, 2014; Hernoux-Villière et al, 2014; Zhang et al, 2015, 2017; de Faria et al, 2017; Oberleitner et al, 2017; Mizuno and Usuki, 2018). Most of these studies employed imidazolium-based ILs to recover antioxidants, vitamins, fats, sugars, and essential oils from different types of food and food waste, such as tea, fruits, vegetables, crustaceans, or used oils.…”