Sustainability of the Food Chain
The Sustainability of the Food Chain Exploitation Platform, led by Keith Waldron, seeks to enhance the exploitation of food-chain residues and co-products. This will be achieved by developing a greater understanding of how to disassemble plant structures into marketable ingredients. It contributes to local initiates (Innovation in non-food crops) and the Sustainable Agriculture and Land Use challenge.
It aims
- To develop combination approaches (biochemical, chemical and physical) for selectively extracting and modifying cell-wall and intracellular components;
- To exploit higher value components as functional ingredients including nutritionally- and pharmacologically-functional biopolymers and oligomers, high-value rheologically-active polymers, and structuring agents.
- To evaluate the potential for exploitation of non-food-grade components;
- To elucidate and exploit the biodegradation of non-food-grade co-products with special reference to the composting process, and the interactions between micro-organisms and plant structure
Website: www.ifr.ac.uk/SFC
Fax: +44(0)1603 507723