Project description
Increasing food processing industry sustainability
Upcycling is an important ingredient in the recipe to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Overall, our food consumption and production habits are important and impactful. This is why the EIC-funded Fl'Our Planet project is focusing on the food processing industry. Its aim is to reduce the environmental impact of food waste while also assisting food companies in bringing better nutrition to consumers. To do so, it offers a novel solid-state fermentation process that converts fruit, cereal and vegetable side-streams into high value-added food ingredients at industrial scale. In addition, these functional ingredients are nutritious, sustainable, taste great and can be incorporated into a wide range of food applications, such as meat analogs, other plant-based applications, snack bars, bakery products, etc.
Objective
Green Spot Technologies has developed an innovative solid-state fermentation (SSF) process that converts large amounts of fruit and vegetable side-streams from the food processing industry into high value-added ingredients.
These ingredients are high in dietary fibre and complete protein, low in fat and sugar, free from gluten, lactose and GMOs, and rich in vitamins, essential minerals, fatty acids and beta-glucan prebiotics.
Crucially, ours is the first SSF process that allows for cost-effective upscaling and automation.
In the past 4 years, GST has developed this technology up to TRL 6. We were able to scale-up our production of different flours up to dozens of kg/week, which allowed real consumer trials during the seed fund period. Our value proposition has raised the interest of several large food manufacturing companies, such as Nestl.
GSTs Fl'Our Planet project supports the EUs Green Deal goal of accelerating the transition to a sustainable food system (Farm 2 Fork strategy).
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- social sciences sociology industrial relations automation
- natural sciences physical sciences astronomy planetary sciences planets
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture vegetable growing
- engineering and technology industrial biotechnology bioprocessing technologies fermentation
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HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC)
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31520 Ramonville-Saint-Agne
France
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