Acronym SeaFeed
Category
Aquaculture
Title Sustainable and healthy food and feed ingredients from seaweeds Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Peter Eisner Coordinator email peter.eisner@ivv.fraunhofer.de
Coordinator institution
IVV - Fraunhofer-Institut für Verfahrenstechnik und Verpackung (Germany)
Institutions involved
NA - Alibra Ingredientes Ltda (Brazil) ,
NA - Bakery wishes GmbH (Germany) ,
NA - Companhia das Algas (Brazil) ,
NA - Coperion GmbH (Germany) ,
NA - Deutsche Tiernahrung Cremer GmbH & Co (Germany) ,
FIPERJ - Fisheries Institute of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) ,
NA - Life Company (Germany) ,
NA - Mondelēz International Inc. (Brazil) ,
NA - OceanBASIS GmbH (Germany) ,
NA - Scheid AG & Co KG (Germany) ,
UNESP - São Paulo State University (Brazil) ,
NA - Van Hees GmbH (Germany) ,
Start year 2016 End year 2019 Funding (€) € 721,000 Website NA Summary Aim of “SeaFeed” is to develop an integrated seaweed utilization based on selective protein extraction to achieve protein ingredients with neutral taste and high functionality for food industry. The extraction residues that still contain relevant protein amounts shall be used in poultry feed for partly substitution of animal meal. To enable the use of tasty seaweed proteins for food applications, the off-flavors from the seaweeds-ingredients will be reduced by combination of solvent- or supercritical CO2-treatment with aqueous protein extraction that will be applied after adequate mechanically pre-processing. To reach this aim, the most relevant species of seaweeds with potential for processing and production
of food and poultry feed have to be selected. Criteria will be availability, laboratory and/or field strain
selection, seedling production, feasibility of cultivation in laboratory/field scale, chemical composition
and process ability. After identifying the most potential materials, the medium-scale cultivation will be
performed under farming conditions to deliver larger amounts of seaweeds for process development in
pilot scale. The fractionating will be developed in laboratory to determine sensitive process parameters
(variation: mechanical pre-treatment, solvents, temperatures, extraction and drying conditions). The
most suitable conditions will be up-scaled into pilot scale, enabling the processing of larger amounts of
food and feed ingredients for tests in food industry and for poultry feeding trials.
As final result, all requirements for sustainable cultivation of seaweeds and the technical parameters
for an economic processing unit will be available. This knowledge will be the basis for a business plan
and thus for an industrial realization of an integrated ingredient-production-plant in São Paulo.
Keywords
Human health;
Animal welfare;
Economy;
Protein;
Human food;
Animal feed;
Bioprospecting;
Marine Region
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