Objective
The pomegranate fruit possesses unique characteristics both of nutritional and medical value. Despite its many advantages, it is currently a minor crop with limited marketability. The major obstacles to the realisation of the full potential of this unique fruit are the difficulties in mechanically retrieving the internal edible seeds. The current crude manual process of extracting the seeds is laborious and costly, and discourages potential consumers from buying the fruit. It is aimed by this project to develop:
- a mechanical system producing 500 kg/hour of clean and undamaged seeds. - a suitable Modified Atmosphere Packaging for the seeds, maintaining original quality for at least 6 weeks. and investigate:
- the application of pomegranate seeds in different foodstuffs. To reach this goals it will be necessary to work on the following aspects:
- automation and robotics for fruit sorting systems - investigation of the post-harvest physiology of pomegranates - identification of optimum package - study of the effect of inactivating the micro-organism and enzymes in pomegranate seeds - investigation of new approaches for utilising edible coatings
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology other engineering and technologies food technology
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture fruit growing
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering robotics
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins enzymes
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Coordinator
75363 RISHON LE ZION
Israel
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