Descripción del proyecto
Colorantes alimentarios fabricados con residuos alimentarios
El sector de la alimentación emplea colorantes artificiales para que sus productos tengan un aspecto más atractivo. Por ejemplo, está en entredicho la seguridad de un pigmento conocido como E120, utilizado por grandes multinacionales para obtener un color rojo brillante. Los grupos de defensa del consumidor afirman que el E120 provoca trastorno por déficit de atención e hiperactividad en niños, así como ciertos tipos de cáncer en animales. Además, la coloración artificial está relacionada con problemas conductuales en general. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos LycoSOL propone una solución respetuosa con el medio ambiente, basada en ingredientes naturales. El método implica la extracción y procesamiento de ingredientes saludables a partir de residuos del procesamiento de alimentos. El proyecto tiene por objetivo desarrollar el proceso de extracción y encapsulado a partir de residuos vegetales, centrándose en particular en las pieles de tomate.
Objetivo
Artificial food colouring makes the foods more appealing and desirable, a tactic the food industry has been capitalising on for decades. One of the most used artificial food colouring is Carmine or E120 (Used in Nestle Nesquik, Rainbow Mentos, etc.) a pigment of a bright-red colour obtained from the aluminium salt of carminic acid, which is produced by some scale insects, such as the cochineal scale and the Polish cochineal, and is used as a general term for a particularly deep-red colour of the same name. While the safety of these dyes has been called into question, consumer advocacy groups and recent scientific research have linked these food dyes to a number of potential health problems, most notably, certain types of cancer in animals and attention-deficit disorder and hyperactivity in children. The link between artificial colours and behavioral problems is a concern, especially for parents of children diagnosed with ADHD.
LycoSOL extracts and formulate natural ingredients (nutraceuticals and phytochemicals) from the waste products of food processing, by using (i) biological, (ii) sustainable and (iii) environmentally friendly, novel processes to stop the use of synthetic food colouring, known to adversely affect the public health and replacing them by ingredients with major health benefits. BioCapSOL aims to provide an improved process for extracting and encapsulating biological content from plants and vegetables using benign chemistries that can be applied at an industrial scale. The LycoSOL extracts the carotenoids from waste by-products of tomato paste production through a 100% natural and low-cost production method.
LycoSOL is currently at TRL6 stage. The global market size for lycopene amounts to €113M in 2018 and the market is expected to grow annually by 3.5% (CAGR 2018-2023) is estimated to be more than €117M. BioCapSOL aims to achieve between the 5 to 10% of market share in the first five year from the commercialization launch.
Ámbito científico
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic health
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcolors
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistrypost-transition metals
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturehorticulturevegetable growing
- natural sciencesbiological scienceszoologyentomology
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1
Régimen de financiación
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinador
34906 PENDIK ISTANBUL
Turquía
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.