INDUSTRIALIZATION OF CANNABIS AND ITS APPLICATION IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the variable industrialization of cannabis in the food industry. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document is to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in Scopus database during the period 2016-2021 in Latin American countries, achieving the identification of 110 publications. The information provided by said platform was organized by means of tables and figures categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, the position of different authors regarding the proposed topic was referenced by means of a qualitative analysis. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that the United States, with 37 publications, is the country with the highest production. The area of knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of the industrialization of cannabis in the food industry was biological and agricultural sciences with 49 published documents, and the type of publication that was most used during the period indicated above was the journal article, which represents 61% of the total scientific production.