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Over the next 25 years, agricultural productivity in the UK must increase by almost as much as it has over the previous 50 if it is to keep pace with the world's increasing demand for food. But it has plateaued. Meanwhile climate change demands reductions in agricultural GHG emissions, threatens food security, its nutritional quality and the distribution ...

New therapeutic products in the pharma industries are invariably large, complex chemical molecules -- e.g., synthetic active ingredients, amino acids, peptides etc. In the consumer goods and food industries, complex emulsions form the backbone of products such as detergents, beauty products, milk and other liquid-based foods. An essential pre-requisite fo...

The rising number of people who are overweight or obese is a huge public health burden; excessive intakes of sugar and calories above recommendations, in combination with sedentary lifestyles has been associated with this rise. In addition, fibre intakes are reported as below recommendations. This application addresses the challenge of sugar reduction in ...

Users of soft wheat have identified variation in quality to be a major root cause of challenges encountered in downstream processing. These challenges are currently managed reactively, and are exacerbated by a fundamental lack of understanding in terms of defining the principal quality characteristics of soft wheat for a given process. This project will a...

This project will produce a machine for low cost, high throughput and continuous inline tempering of chocolate; the first such unit within this global industry. It would save around 1.5 MJ of energy per kg of chocolate produced. Given that 600,000 tonnes of chocolate are eaten every year in the UK (10 kg per person per year), this would amount to a saving...

Food processing often results in by-products of little or no value, and/or limited applications. This project aims to identify the fundamental modifications in material properties required to enable the use of these by/co-products in a broad range of food applications. Many by/co-products are valuable sources of dietary fibre but are limited in applicatio...