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Innovation starts here



Three dominant drivers directing innovation in the ingredient business are health, convenience and costs, whereas safety is a boundary condition. Within Health, the main trends are weight management and satiety. Safety will become more of an issue when mild processing steps are increasingly being applied; this offers opportunities for the ingredient industries to develop natural preservatives.

Because of the growing concern to quality and availability of water and the costs for energy, there is a driver to develop sustainable processes and ingredients. Finally, the EU legislation and the reframing activities for the use and declaration of ingredients is a concern to many ingredient suppliers leading to an increased interest in natural ingredients. However, to maintain high quality, it is essential to understand how ingredients and processes interact and what the functionalities of the ingredients and/or new natural sources should be.

It is the challenge for the ingredient industry to add functional and emotional benefits to ingredients that ultimately results in the satisfaction of (latent) consumer needs.
NIZO food research assists the international ingredient industry by developing new functionalities for protein, starch, fat and a whole range of specialty products. Next to that, ingredients are applied on a lab or pilot plant scale in a wide series of applications to demonstrate technical functionality.

   

Solutions

  • Idea   Robust probiotic bacteria
  • Idea   Flavour and texture join hands: cross modal interactions
  • Idea   Assessing cost-efficient and safe opportunities for water reuse with predictive models
  • Idea   NIZO FOOD RESEARCH CALL FOR A PREBIOTICS CONSORTIUM
  • Increasing CLA levels in dairy
  • Pilot plant facilitates human health trials
  • Fighting the flu with fermentable fibres
  • When oxygen kills your healthy ingredients…
  • Natural in situ folate production
  • Vitamins on demand
  • Low calorie and high vitamin foods via fermentation
  • Genetic research identifies more effective probiotic bacteria
  • Protection against gut infections with calcium
  • Protect against colon cancer with chlorophyl
  • Milk fat improves gut health by increasing the resistance to pathogens
  • Proving functionality of Cysteine Peption against liver damage
  • Control of mycotoxins in the dairy sector
  • Lowering microbial contamination rate of eggs and eggproducts
  • Designing the flavour of cheese
  • Proteins are not always the "flavour sinks" they are thought to be
  • Maximal flavour perception of alcoholic drinks
  • Improved flavour of Vivinal Alpha
  • Tailor made starters for your desired cheese
  • Elimination of cheese bitterness
  • Encapsulated flavour for release in mouth
  • Cheese flavour formation: the lysis approach
  • Tailor-made surface starter cultures for smear cheeses
  • Tailoring cheese flavour by improving starter cultures
  • Natural preservation by peptides
  • Predicting the functionality of carrageenans
  • Fast identification of cheese spoilers
  • Water - No more than necessary
  • Improved production of delicate bioactives
  • Lysostaphin: a breakthrough pharmaceutical against Staphylococcus aureus
  • Early smouldering detection in spray dryers
  • Measuring powder emission
  • Good tasting sauces without phase separation
  • Reducing bitterness of bioactive peptides
  • Stabilisation of dairy drinks with CMC
  • Controlling natural thickening through fermentation
  • Encapsulate it
  • Boost gut health & immunity
  • Potent probiotics
  • Low Salt - Low Sugar: tailored taste and texture
  • Fewer calories and increased satiety: key solutions for body-weight management
  • Small-batch production of foods for satiety studies
  • making value with your proteins & peptides
  • Predictive simulation software as Internet Application
  • Production of ice cream on industrial scale
  • Production of functional dairy products for Lipid Nutrition
  • Nisin-producing starter cultures


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Technology

  • Preservation by processing
  • Extending product shelf life: high-quality UHT- products
  • Isolation, determination and purification
  • Biochemical characterisation
  • Improved stability of health ingredients using encapsulation
  • Measuring satiating effects of food products in humans
  • Health ingredient production
  • In silico gut microbiology
  • Detection of milk allergens
  • Accelerated discoveries with high-throughput technologies
  • Sensory triggers that induce satiation
  • Separation facilities
  • Heat treatment facilities
  • Lactococcus lactis – Excellent host for expression of membrane proteins
  • Controlled gene expression in L. lactis – an emerging alternative for recombinant protein production
  • Microbial shelf life testing
  • (Intestinal) microflora determination
  • Determination of key aroma and taste components
  • Sensory analysis
  • Triggering satiation and satiety
  • Automated flavour quality control
  • Natural flavour production through fermentation
  • Flavour release measurement - MS Nose & Artificial throat
  • Engineering freshness cues
  • Culture collection
  • Sensory analysis to elucidate product defects and improvements
  • Visualization of food structures
  • Bioactive peptides from food proteins
  • Models for intestinal health
  • Applied ingredient technology
  • Biochemical characterization
  • Cold gelation, novel textures from proteins
  • Optimisation of costs, energy and environmental load
  • Restrain microbes in your processes
  • Sensorial characterisation
  • Emulsion technology
  • Evaporation equipment
  • Reduction of bacteria by microfiltration/bactofugation
  • Mild concentration and isolation of functional ingredients
  • Drying facilities
  • High throughput experimentation at microtechnological scale
  • Drying technology
  • In-line product quality control
  • Process-product simulation software
  • Cheese: from fast screening up to representative production
  • Physical characterization
  • NIZO develops an objective tool for grading rim air
  • Measurement of fat absorption in humans
  • In vitro stomach model (SIMPHYD)
  • Human trials to measure the satiety value of your product
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Microcheese for high throughput screening
  • Application technology.


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