迄今为止，化学品/产品的生产依赖于化石资源，在全球范围内造成了一些环境问题。在这种情况下，需要建立可持续的循环经济模式来缓解全球环境问题。各种加工业产生的生物废物也会产生环境问题，这些问题将在工业上重要的反应性和生物活性化合物的生产中得到解决。木质素是生物废物成分的重要组成部分，可以转化为多种酚类化合物。酚类化合物引起了广泛关注，因为它们不仅影响多种感官参数，例如味道或颜色，而且影响活性包装系统的活性剂。不同类别的农作物残留物是木质纤维素生物质的丰富来源，可以作为阿魏酸（FA）生物合成的可再生资源。 FA经FA酯酶作用得到FA，可进一步转化为香草醛、香草酸、羟基肉桂酸等多种尾端酚类风味绿色化合物。木质素本质上是可再生的，就全球工业点而言，生物废物的加工和管理以实现可持续发展是必要的。本综述探讨了将木质素转化为可用于包装应用的增值酚类化合物的所有方法。这些有价值的产品可以表现出抗氧化、抗菌、心脏保护、抗炎和抗癌特性，并且由于这些特性，可以将它们纳入功能性食品的生产中，并在活性食品包装应用中使用。这些方法将是在营养保健品和食品工业领域利用回收的生物活性化合物的重要一步。版权所有 © 2024。由 Elsevier Inc. 出版。

The production of chemicals/ products so far relies on fossil-based resources with the creation of several environmental problems at the global level. In this situation, a sustainable and circular economy model is necessitated to mitigate global environmental issues. Production of biowaste from various processing industries also creates environmental issues which would be valorized for the production of industrially important reactive and bioactive compounds. Lignin acts as a vital part in biowaste composition which can be converted into a wide range of phenolic compounds. The phenolic compounds have attracted much attention, owing to their influence on diverse not only organoleptic parameters, such as taste or color, but also active agents for active packaging systems. Crop residues of varied groups, which are an affluent source of lignocellulosic biomass could serve as a renewable resource for the biosynthesis of ferulic acid (FA). FA is obtained by the FA esterase enzyme action, and it can be further converted into various tail end phenolic flavor green compounds like vanillin, vanillic acid and hydroxycinnamic acid. Lignin being renewable in nature, processing and management of biowastes towards sustainability is the need as far as the global industrial point is concerned. This review explores all the approaches for conversion of lignin into value-added phenolic compounds that could be included to packaging applications. These valorized products can exhibit the antioxidant, antimicrobial, cardioprotective, anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties, and due to these features can emerge to incorporate them into production of functional foods and be utilization of them at active food packaging application. These approaches would be an important step for utilization of the recovered bioactive compounds at the nutraceutical and food industrial sectors.Copyright © 2024. Published by Elsevier Inc.