DELICIOUS

As more people become aware of their lifestyle choices and their impact on health and the environment, the demand for plant-based alternatives to traditional dairy products is growing. DELICIOUS aims to accelerate dietary change and act as a paradigm for the entire plant-based food sector, contributing to a better diet for all by developing high-protein products rich in vitamins, fibre and probiotics. The project also aims to reduce the environmental impact of the food industry, not only by replacing conventional dairy products in people's diets, but also by introducing microbial products that require less fresh water, less land use and cheap residual raw materials.

In order to accelerate the commercialisation of the products developed, DELICIOUS will also carry out various analyses and evaluations such as safety assessments, nutritional simulations, consumer tests and techno-economic evaluations of the processes combined with behavioural economics to define the profit and price margins of such products. Taking advantage of the consortium's large capacity and experience in high throughput methodology, the project also has the ambition to provide the fermentation industry with a bioinformatics tool to predict the taste, odour and texture of a product based on the original raw materials and the microorganisms used in fermentation, thus significantly reducing the cost of product development.

We create DELICIOUS together

At DELICIOUS, we tackle problems that are too big and too difficult for individual actors to solve on their own. The knowledge we create together is an important key to achieving a sustainable transition of the food system.

RISE is coordinating the DELICIOUS project and will also be responsible for scale-up of microbial processes, high-throughput screening of microbial strains and communities, and sustainability assessments and through techno-economic analysis (TCA) and social life cycle assessment (SLCA)