Sustain-a-bite

The project addresses dual challenges in today’s food systems: promoting healthier diets and reducing environmental impacts. European diets are nutritionally imbalanced, with high animal protein consumption and low dietary fiber, while existing plant-based foods often rely on highly refined ingredients with additives and low nutritional value.

Sustain-a-bite aims to overcome these issues through innovative, sustainable, and minimal processing methods to create nutritious, tasty, and affordable plant-based foods, aligning with the EU Green Deal’s Farm2Fork Strategy.

By collaborating with stakeholders across the food value chain—producers, manufacturers, retailers, researchers, authorities, and consumers—the project fosters innovation, drives market adoption, supports inclusive local food systems, and promotes healthier lifestyles for a sustainable future.

EIT Food Role

1. Supporting communication activities, ensuring outreach to wider audiences and consumer engagement to stimulate demand for new ingredients and products developed as part of the project.
2. Engaging in the dissemination of project results to targeted audiences including the research community, industry, policy makers, the public and practioners / technology end users.
3. Developing exploitation pathways to deliver a roadmap for the exploitation of project results by the food industry, creating new markets and job opportunities.
4. Supporting the project’s multi-actor approach by engaging the external advisory board and members of the stakeholder platform in active dialogue and leveraging EIT Food’s ecosystem.