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Vegetable proteins

In the last years, massive consumption of animal proteins became unsustainable for environment: for this reason it is useful to find a better use of vegetable sources and improve supply, to reduce meat consumption. Nowadays  plant sources with high protein content and an excellent aminoacidic composition compared to animal sources, such as soybean, hempseed, lupinseed, microalgae are rediscovering.

Besides nutritional value, vegetable proteins result especially interesting as biologically active peptides source: they possess scientific proved antioxidant, antihypertensive, hypocholesterolemic and antitumoral effect. The knowledge of this bioactive molecule are economically important as they could be extracted.

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Free from Solvent Extraction (FFSE)

Nowadays, the most used method to recover oil from oleaginous seeds, consists of an extraction using different types of chemical solvents. However, to ensure human and animal welfare and the use of natural substances, it’s essential to perform more and more “green” processes. In order to satisfy these particular requests, scientists and engineers focused their attention on “free from solvent” approach as cold pressure, ultrasound/microwave and CO2 supercritical extraction methods. Therefore, it’s very important to identify alternative extractions depending on the raw material and on the final intended use of the product. The goal of a “green” extraction meets different wide markets and […] Read more

Alternative sources

Protein demand for animal nutrition is increasing with the increasing world population; Europe’s main source of feed protein is soybean meal, but many alternatives are being evaluated for the future. Among these, insects are a promising one especially for their low environmental impact.

ATPr&d is interested in evaluating new protein sources and joined the “Edible Insect Seminar & Workshop” in Wageningen the last 8th and 9th December 2016.

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