Project description
Food safety without sacrificing taste or shelf life
Consumers want foods that are safe, nutritious, longer lasting and environmentally friendly. However, traditional processing methods can reduce nutritional quality or use additives that some consumers wish to avoid. New technologies are needed to balance safety, nutrition and sustainability. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the SEQUR FOOD project is creating a global network of researchers from Europe and South America to develop advanced food processing methods. By using techniques like UV treatment, cold plasma and bioactive packaging, SEQUR FOOD aims to make food safer and longer lasting. It will also evaluate these methods for health benefits, with a focus on popular foods like blueberries and oat milk.
Objective
The goal of SEQUR FOOD is to build an international scientific network including researchers from EU and South America that will work on the development of novel food processing technologies, (i.e. UV treatment, cold plasma processing, nanoemulsification, freeze concentration and drying) and/or active bioactive packaging (i.e. bacterial cellulose, antibacterial paper, etc.) to obtain safe products for the EU market with higher shelf-life and high nutritional and functional properties. This includes optimization of the novel food processing technologies, nutritional and risk assessment of these technologies and obtained products as novel foods within EFSA’s framework, and documenting their health claims, if relevant. To achieve this objective, a consortium of 6 universities from EU (Greece, Poland, Romania, Spain, and the Netherlands) with expertise in all the aspects of EU risk assessment, 1 plant-based products processing company based in Poland together with 2 universities from South America (Colombia) with extended expertise in novel food processing techniques will work on a variety of case studies spread across several novel food processing technologies and products relevant for Colombia: fruit (passionfruit, uchuva (Physalis peruviana L.), blueberries); cold brewed coffee; oat milk (including oat grains and nuts needed for its production); and high oleic palm oil as compared to olive oil. These case studies will be a proof of concept for the holistic assessment of each technology-foodstuff pair and will constitute the basis for further research, but also for food processors, the principal stakeholders of the project. The activities proposed in SEQUR FOOD are innovative in many aspects. The most important innovation is the holistic approach of new food product development in terms of the complete physico-chemical, microbiological, nutritional and functional properties, but also sensory evaluation and multicultural consumer acceptance.
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- engineering and technology other engineering and technologies food technology
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture fruit growing
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture grains and oilseeds cereals
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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400372 Cluj Napoca
Romania
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