Dihydroxyacetone: An Updated Insight into an Important Bioproduct

摘要

Currently obtained from glycerol through microbial fermentation, the demand of 1,3‐dihydroxyacetone (DHA) has significantly grown during the course of the last decade, driven by the consumer passion for a tan and increasing awareness of UV photodamage to the skin caused by prolonged exposure to the sun. We provide an updated bioeconomy perspective into a valued bioproduct (DHA), whose supply and production from glycerol, we argue in this study, will rapidly expand and diversify, with important global health benefits. The perfect tan : An updated bioeconomy perspective into a valued bioproduct (1,3‐dihydroxyacetone), used worldwide in self‐tanning products, whose supply and production from readily available glycerol, is expected to rapidly expand and diversify.