The present study was carried to explore the possibility for
extraction of important co-product, CTS from A. niger NRRL 567
waste mycelium produced during CA production. In this context,
the bidentate approach was applied as follow: (1) the economical
production of CA from apple pomace (AP) and apple pomace sludge
(APS) under solid-state fermentation (SSF) and submerged fermen-
tation (SmF) conditions and; (2) extraction of CTS from resulting
waste fungal mycelium. The characterization of the properties of
the produced CTS was carried out. As per the published literature,
so far to the best of our knowledge, there is no study reported
on the utilization of fruit processing waste for the combined pro-
duction of CA and sequential extraction of CTS from waste fungal
mycelium.