Objective
Currently, fish scraps are mostly used as a low-value animal feed or considered as a waste product. Fish oil from oily types of fish has a high content in omega-3 fatty acids, which are essential to human health and can be used as a new functional food ingredient. Unfortunately, the actual process to produce fish oils impairs the omega-3 fatty acids because of their thermal instability. But a regular intake of omega-3 fatty acids decreases significantly the risk of so-called lifestyle diseases. The development process will enable small and medium sized fish processors to use their so far unused parts to produce high quality fish oil with a high omega-3 content without any heating or solvent extraction. The oil will be stabilised by micro-encapsulation and directly used by the food industry in common foods like bread or snacks. Despite of this a new method of micro-encapsulation will be developed to produce a freezing and heating stable capsule for frozen stored foods like ready-made meals. This would enable the food industry to use omega-3 rich fish oil in a wide field of applications.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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.
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.
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules lipids
- agricultural sciences animal and dairy science domestic animals animal husbandry animal feed
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Coordinator
53332 BORNHEIM-MERTEN
Germany
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