AdvanceYeastProt- Advanced and sustainable yeast-based novel food, grown in bio-scaffolds for a high- structured and protein rich product

Start date: 1 October 2023
End date: 30 September 2025
Value: £500,000
Partners and collaborators: G's-Fresh, BioPower Technologies and AgriFoodX
Primary investigator: Célia Ferreira
Co-investigators: Dr. Alan Javier Hernandez Alvarez, Dr. Darren Greetham, Dr Amin Sadeghpour
External co-investigators: Dr Phil Metcalf, Dr Catherine Birch, Dr Graham Bonwick, Dr Darren Gedge, Prof Francisco Goycoolea
Postgraduate students: PDRA under recruitment

Create food tailored for the next centuries by generating new nutritive/healthier, environmental friendly, clean-label mycoprotein affordable to everyone while reducing food waste.

Impact

Generate novel low emission alternative healthy, clean label and high nutritious proteins to counteract the increase of global population, famine, global warm, decrease gas emission and food waste.