Public Funding for International Ingredients and Chemicals (Iic) Ltd

A collaboration between Mondelez International, Molson Coors, Campden BRI, Naturis and Atritor will develop and evaluate applications for a high fibre value-added ingredient generated from spent brewery grain. This project will call on the combined knowledge of these companies, whose expertise spans the full food chain from raw material generation and ingredient manufacture, through engineering, analytical and consumer science testing, product development and application to commercialisation of the new ingredient.

Consumer insight based development of ingredients and products to aid the reduction of meat consumption. This project will look to understand the psychology of consumers with regard to meat and replacement of meat in meals. Based on the consumer insights ingredients and new meat alternative products and meat hybrid products will be developed that meet the needs of omnivores whilst not compromising on taste and mouth feel. Intervention studies will look at the effects of meat replacement notably cardiovascular, weight management benefit. As a result it is envisaged that new non meat protein products and ingredients will be commercialised whilst development of a new hybrid meat non meat category established. New communication tools and channels will be developed to ensure the benefits of reduced meat consumption are effectively communicated to consumers and disseminated .

The processing of food materials for the consumer market results a variety of surplus or waste streams, which currently have low value uses, for example for animal feed, or for anerobic digestion. The project will focus on the innovative recovery and transformation of wet perishable process streams, such as peel, stalk, grain, and fruit waste, into higher value functional and textural ingredients for incorporation into food products. Outcomes will demostrate exploitation rather than simple management of food waste, of strategic importance for security of food supply, also delivering direct commercial benefit. Technological solutions will be developed for stabilisation and manipulation of biproduct materials frok key selected feedstocks, supported by a consortium with synergistic skills, representing the full supply chain.Investigations will involve innovative coupling of process steps and novel combination of transformed materials from different sources.