Sustainable and tailored production of fungal proteins to accelerate acceptance of alternative food

Objectives

  • To identify and develop edible fungal strains to produce nutritious alternative proteins
  • To demonstrate scalability of fungal proteins production

Project overview

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Summary of screening results for selected strains

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Food side streams as fermentation feedstocks

Tray and packed-bed SSF

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Aerial mycelial via semi-solid cultivation

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Mushroom cultivation

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Application and prototype development

The fungi-bread patty: nutrient enriched burger which can replace soybean burger

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Oncom reimagined: veggie waste & F9022 mycelium

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