Carbohydrate-based economy: Perspectives and challenges

Inserted in the bioeconomy context, the carbohydrate-based market has the main objective to develop products based on carbohydrate material, in their most diverse forms and sources, and not depend on costly and exhaustible inputs. This chapter discusses possibilities of carbohydrate-based products and market-insertion opportunities, covering biofuel, enzymatic biocatalyst, biomaterial, food agents, and bioactive ingredients from fungi cultivated in carbohydrate sources with pathogen biocontrol purpose. Furthermore, industrial trends from the operational and environmental point of view are covered up, bringing perspectives from the fourth and fifth industrial revolution to the carbohydrate-based technologies in the circular bioeconomy context.