With a media centric approach and modified fungal strains for precision fermentation, we establish sustainable production of animal-identical food proteins based on bio-residuals from agriculture, food- and biotech industry.
This requires as a starting point a comprehensive overview of and knowledge about local side (bio)streams from agriculture, food and industry. For example molasses, vinasse, spent yeast from the brewery/biotech industry, permeate from whey protein production, brown juice from beet tops/grass protein production, potato juice, etc. This knowledge does not exist today and requires a total mapping of availability, quantities, season, delivery as well as a characterization of these regarding nutrient content and possible toxins.
The Network Animal Free Protein – Fermentation Produced Milk Protein is supported by GUDP
The network will connect the Danish resource base and bridge the gap between research, innovation, production, and the market.
The network's aim is to highlight opportunities and barriers to novel foods based on sustainable production of milk proteins through precision fermentation.
The network is a pre-competitive forum across sciences, trade associations, businesses, consumers, and authorities. The network will produce a "roadmap" for building a Danish cellular food production with a focus on milk protein. We work throughout the value chain for alternative milk proteins.
BioFerment is supported by BIOSOLUTIONS ZEALAND
The project develops methods for up-cycling local agro-industrial biostreams as an affordable and sustainable fermentation substrate for the production of food proteins, e.g. betalactoglobulin. We develop biostreams and production organisms to match.
The partners in the project are:
ProteinFrontiers, 21st. Bio, Nordic Sugar, Aalborg University, Danish Technological Institute
Mette Lübeck
R&D, PhD, Associate Professor
Phone: +45 24 47 04 18
Email: mluebeck@proteinfrontiers.dk
Lasse Solheim
Senior Advisor, MSc Agriculture
Phone: +45 2395 2151
Email: solheim@proteinfrontiers.dk
Niels Kristian Sørensen
R&D, PhD Dairy Science & Technology
Phone: +45 4080 9930
Email: nks@proteinfrontiers.dk