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Smart Protein Repository

GFI India’s repository of R&D innovation priorities in smart proteins

Discover ideas for your R&D work in plant-based, fermentation-derived alternative proteins, and cultivated meat.

Key: Digital art icon of a burger, representing cultivated meat. Cultivated A digital art icon of a cell, representing fermentation. Fermentation A digital art icon of green peas in a pea pod, representing plant-based meat. Plant-Based
Opportunity Production platform Value chain segment Technology sector
Technological interventions to improve the ‘clean-label’ claims of plant-based foods

Consumers prefer clean-label food ingredients and end products. Employing science-based innovations to eliminate the need for synthetic additives would be an effective approach.

 A digital art icon of green peas in a pea pod, representing plant-based meat. Plant-Based R&D End product formulation and manufacturing
Optimisation of novel texturization technologies (3D printing, fibre spinning, shear cell) for the development of plant-based meat products

Exploring novel top-down and bottom-up technologies for texturising plant proteins can catalyse product innovations. Optimising the processing and formulation parameters for 3D printing, fibre spinning, and shear cell technologies can…

 A digital art icon of green peas in a pea pod, representing plant-based meat. Plant-Based R&D End product formulation and manufacturing
Functionalisation of plant proteins for the development of plant-based meat, egg and dairy products

Protein functionality is the key to product innovations in the smart protein sector. Identifying the suitable strategy for functional modification of proteins, preferably physical approaches is the need-of-the-hour.

 A digital art icon of green peas in a pea pod, representing plant-based meat. Plant-Based Raw materials, ingredients, and inputs End product formulation and manufacturing