In 2004, the U.S. Department of Energy released a list of the top value-added chemicals from biomass which included glucaric acid—the direct product of the oxidation of glucuronic acid.
The U.S. Department of Energy in 2004 published a report on the most profitable chemical products that can be obtained from biomass, with glucaric acid being one of them, which is created through the oxidation process involving glucuronic acid.