Textured Fava Bean (Vicia faba): Manufactured at Scale for Nutrition, Quality and Sustainability

纹理蚕豆 (Vicia faba)：大规模生产以保证营养、质量和可持续性

• 批准号: 10067076
• 金额: $ 21.06万
• 依托单位: BIOPOLYMER SOLUTIONS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10067076
• 关键词: Textured; Fava; Bean; Vicia; faba

Fava bean (_Vicia faba_) is an established UK crop that improves soil fertility and helps lock in carbon. With the increase in flexitarian and vegan diets, plus the encouragement of more legumes in the diet, a fava based alternative to animal proteins would be advantageous across the UK supply chain and for the consumer. To achieve the textures expected for a meat analogue or extender from fava bean protein was challenging, but this challenge has been met. By using unusual and combinations of already established food processing techniques and innovative conditions a product has been made that compares well with other textured plant proteins. Major food producers and retailers consider, from their kitchen concept work, that the fava texturant showed excellent results. The challenge now is to use our technologies, developed for producing 25kg a month in a research facility, to build and equip a new factory making 5000 tonnes per year. Success for textured fava depends on it becoming an affordable everyday food and therefore requires manufacturing at scale. As volume production occurs, not only is there concern for the product's textural quality, but also that the process embraces high environmental standards, such as low inputs (energy/water, minimal waste) and appropriate use of co-streams. Textured fava must have clean label status, be safe in terms of anti-nutrients and retain the nutritional aspects associated with fava.This project's team are those that originally carried out the ground-breaking steps to create texture from fava. ABMauri, to start scaling production, are building a 1st phase test market facility. Over the project's 9 months the SMEs will use this and other amenities to carry out a series of trials to establish which capital equipment can make, at scale, the textured fava. Potential equipment, destined for a new factory, can then be compared against operational requirements and other criteria. These criteria embrace our starting priorities of quality textured product, sustainability and nutritional excellence. To keep these factors at the forefront of decision making there will be independent advisors, paid for by the project, whose expertise include process efficiency, fava agronomy and legume nutrition. Another feature of the proposal is amassing a dissemination group, many with specialised knowledge, thereby achieving field-to-fork visibility, management of expectations and advising our decisions. Although not all know-how from this project may be shared, many aspects can be publicised and should encourage eating of affordable UK sourced plant proteins.

蚕豆 (_Vicia faba_) 是英国的一种成熟作物，可提高土壤肥力并有助于锁定碳。随着弹性素食和纯素食饮食的增加，加上鼓励在饮食中添加更多豆类，基于蚕豆的动物蛋白替代品将对整个英国供应链和消费者有利。要从蚕豆蛋白中获得人造肉或补充剂所期望的质地具有挑战性，但这一挑战已经得到解决。通过使用不寻常的、已建立的食品加工技术和创新条件的组合，生产出可与其他纹理植物蛋白相媲美的产品。主要食品生产商和零售商认为，从他们的厨房概念工作来看，蚕豆质地剂表现出了出色的效果。现在的挑战是利用我们为研究设施每月生产 25 公斤而开发的技术来建造和装备年产 5000 吨的新工厂。纹理蚕豆的成功取决于它成为一种负担得起的日常食品，因此需要大规模生产。随着批量生产的进行，人们不仅关注产品的质地质量，而且还关注该工艺遵循高环境标准，例如低投入（能源/水、最少废物）和适当使用共流。纹理蚕豆必须具有清洁标签状态，在抗营养方面是安全的，并保留与蚕豆相关的营养成分。该项目的团队是最初执行开创性步骤以利用蚕豆创造纹理的团队。为了开始扩大生产，ABMauri 正在建设第一阶段测试市场设施。在该项目的 9 个月内，中小企业将利用该设施和其他设施进行一系列试验，以确定哪些资本设备可以大规模生产纹理蚕豆。然后可以将用于新工厂的潜在设备与操作要求和其他标准进行比较。这些标准涵盖了我们的首要任务：优质质感产品、可持续性和卓越营养。为了将这些因素置于决策的最前沿，将有独立顾问，费用由项目支付，其专业知识包括工艺效率、蚕豆农学和豆类营养。该提案的另一个特点是组建一个传播小组，其中许多人具有专业知识，从而实现从现场到餐桌的可见性、期望管理并为我们的决策提供建议。尽管并非该项目的所有专业知识都可以共享，但许多方面都可以公开，并且应该鼓励人们食用负担得起的英国来源的植物蛋白。