From sunflower side-streams to tasty meat alternatives
Climate change, natural resource scarcity and fast-growing world population is threatening our access to nutritious, safe and affordable food. One solution is to move towards a more plant-based food system. VTT, DSM, DIL German Institute of Food Technologies, University of Helsinki and ABP Beef have launched a research project aimed at utilizing sunflower press-cakes as protein ingredient to develop sustainable and tasty meat alternatives.VTT Technology Center of Finland coordinates Taste2Meat, an EIT Food funded project, which focuses on mitigating climate change and increasing EU’s