Unlocking Plant Potential: Harnessing Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents (NADES) for Enhanced Protein Isolates
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2024-10-30
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As world food systems increasingly trend towards environmentally sustainable and ethically produced food items, there is growing demand for novel plant-based protein sources and innovative processing methodologies. The past decades have seen extensive exploration of proteins from legumes (i.e., soy) and grains (i.e., wheat). However, extracted proteins frequently elicit poor consumer acceptance due to pungent flavors, off-color, and poor texture. Other protein-rich crops, such as rapeseed, have only been used for vegetable oil production because of similar concerns. This project explores a novel processing strategy for peas and rapeseed based on natural deep eutectic solvents that mitigates these problems due to the solvents’ selective capacity to extract antinutritive and acrid plant polyphenols from protein-rich seeds before protein recovery. The insights gained from this research enhance our foundational comprehension of controlling extracted plant proteins’ properties, enabling researchers to effectively develop a new generation of functional and neutral-tasting plant protein ingredients.
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ETH Zurich
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Food Day @ETH 2024
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FOOD PROCESSING + FOOD PROCESS ENGINEERING (FOOD INDUSTRY)
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09571 - Mathys, Alexander / Mathys, Alexander