Horizon Europe Project FlavourFerm: Unleashing the flavor potential of plant-based foods through fermentation
- Type Project
- Status Firmado
- Execution 2024 -2028
- Assigned Budget 4.484.546,98 €
- Scope Europeo
- Main source of financing Horizonte
- Project website Proyecto FlavourFerm
Consumers are demanding tasty and healthy plant-based foods, driving the need for advanced fermentation technologies to deliver tasty and nutritious options to the market.
The EU-funded FlavourFerm project will optimize fermentation techniques to enhance the flavor of plant-based foods, addressing consumer preferences for delicious, nutritious, and healthy products. The project will refine precision, biomass, and traditional fermentation methods to improve the sensory properties and nutritional quality of plant-based foods. It will develop plant-based milk and cheese using recombinant animal casein derived from precision fermentation, and plant-based meat using fungal mycelia from legume fermentation.
These ingredients and final products will be produced on a pilot and pre-commercial scale in collaboration with SMEs and established manufacturers.
FLAVOURFERM aims to optimize, demonstrate, and implement fermentation technologies to unlock the flavor potential of plant-based foods and respond to consumer demand for tasty, nutritious, and healthy plant-based products. Precision fermentation, biomass fermentation, and traditional fermentation techniques will be optimized to improve sensory properties (flavor and texture), as well as protein content and bioavailability in plant-based foods. Innovative fermented foods will be developed by incorporating ingredients from optimized fermentation techniques into food products.
Production will include animal-free recombinant casein obtained through precision fermentation, as well as fungal mycelia obtained from legume fermentation, to produce a variety of new food products in three commercial scenarios: plant-based cheese, plant-based meat, and plant-based milk. All new ingredients and final products will be scaled up and produced at pilot and pre-commercial scales in collaboration with industrial partners, including both innovative SMEs and established manufacturers from different EU regions.
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