Description du projet
Renforcer le développement innovant de collations aux fruits de qualité supérieure
Bien que la consommation de fruits soit indispensable à une alimentation saine, le rythme effréné de la vie moderne empêche les gens d’atteindre leur niveau de consommation quotidienne optimal. La production de collations prêtes à manger à la fois naturelles, nutritives, saines et personnalisées permettrait de relever ce défi. Le projet FRIETS, financé par l’UE, créera un cadre solide pour le développement et la commercialisation de collations intelligentes, à base de fruits rouges, personnalisées, nutritives et innovantes, qui ne contiennent pas de sucre ajouté, de sodium ou d’agents conservateurs chimiques. Rassemblant une équipe de scientifiques issus d’horizons variés et un réseau de PME internationales, FRIETS concentrera ses travaux sur l’optimisation d’une production intelligente à faible impact et le développement durable de baies transformées de qualité supérieure pour des produits adaptés aux besoins de groupes spécifiques.
Objectif
Maintaining a healthy diet requires sufficient consumption of fruits and vegetables. However, nowadays, the fast pace of modern lifestyle discourages individuals from reaching their optimal daily intake via consumption of fresh fruits/vegetables, ultimately creating an increasing demand for natural, nutritive, healthy and personalized ready-to-eat snacks. It is also an accepted actuality that there is a lack of healthy food snacks for personalized nutrition in the market. Hence, the development of such products, which can also be tailor-made to the needs of specific groups (young children, elderly, diabetic, sportive etc.), is a long-awaiting innovation. FRIETS project aims in training crossdisciplinary scientists from 5 European countries, in collaboration with international SMEs, for the development and marketization of personalized, nutritious and innovative, soft fruit smart snacks that contain no added sugar, sodium or chemical preservatives, as a palatable way to increase daily fruit consumption. FRIETS smart snacks will include novel processed berries (strawberry, raspberry and blackberry) with superior quality and nutritional characteristics, as well as extended shelf-life. Pre-harvest management practices will be optimized for cultivating high-quality berries. Low impact post-harvest technologies will be developed and optimised including (1) mild and energy efficient drying techniques (e.g. osmotic dehydration, freeze drying, microwave vacuum drying or their combination) using limited or no sugar or salt, and low temperatures, (2) composite or multi-layered edible coatings, based on micro- and macro-algae components, including encapsulated or non-encapsulated natural functional ingredients. Life Cycle Analysis and socio-techno-economic analysis will be implemented for the sustainable development of new products. FRIETS implementation will be based on staff secondments, strengthening collaborative research among different countries and sectors.
Champ scientifique
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturehorticulturefruit growing
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutrition
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturehorticulturevegetable growing
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and management
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MSCA-RISE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)Coordinateur
25200 Patras
Grèce
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.