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EIT Food has announced the 61 high-impact agrifood startups that have been selected to join the EIT Food Acceleration Network (EIT FAN) 2022. EIT Food is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the…
Workshop on Ice Structuring Proteins
Thu, October 24, 2019
DIL, Quakenbrück, Germany
Temperature fluctuations during storage of frozen foods result in big chunks of ice causing major quality defects of the product. A controlled deceleration of recrystallization processes can be achieved by specific ice structuring proteins (ISP). So far, the only food-grade available ISP are based on animal or GMO sources.
This workshop, hosted by DIL, will focus on the upscaled isolation of ISP from plant materials and their application in frozen foods.
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Thu, October 24, 2019 at 12:01 am
DIL, Quakenbrück, Germany
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