Project description
Fermentation techniques for flavourful and healthy plant-based foods
Consumers demand flavourful and healthy plant-based foods, prompting the need for advanced fermentation technologies to deliver tasty and nutritious options to the market. The EU-funded FlavourFerm project will optimise fermentation techniques to enhance the flavour of plant-based foods, addressing consumer preferences for delicious, nutritious and healthy products. The project will refine precision, biomass and traditional fermentation methods to improve the sensory properties and nutritional quality of plant-based foods. It will develop plant-based milk and cheese using animal-free recombinant casein derived from precision fermentation, and plant based meat using fungal mycelia sourced from legume fermentation. These ingredients and final products will be produced at pilot and pre-commercial scales in collaboration with SMEs and established manufacturers.
Objective
FLAVOURFERM aims to optimize, demonstrate, and deploy fermentation technologies to unlock the flavor potential of plant-based foods and respond to consumer demand for tasty, nutritious, and healthy plant-based products. Precision fermentation, biomass fermentation, and traditional fermentation techniques will be optimized to improve the sensory properties (flavor and texture) as well as the protein content and bioavailability in plant-based foods. Innovative fermented foods will be developed by incorporating ingredients from the optimized fermentation techniques into food products. The production will involve animal-free recombinant casein obtained by precision fermentation, as well as fungal mycelia obtained from legume fermentation, to produce an array of novel food products in three business cases: plant-based cheese, plant-based meat, and plant-based milk. All novel ingredients and final products will be scaled-up and produced at pilot and pre-commercial scale in collaboration with industrial partners, which include both innovative SMEs and established manufacturers from different EU regions.
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1210 Wien
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46980 Paterna Valencia
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20009 Donostia San Sebastian
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901 87 Umea
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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00100 Roma
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NR4 7UQ Norwich
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50-375 Wroclaw
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20500 Abo
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3760 GUDHJEM
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2720 København
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20130 Urnieta
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20130 Urnieta
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9354212 Jerusalem
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20-029 Lublin
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