Transforming Underused Crops into the Future of Food
Sustain-a-bite develops sustainable, cost-effective processes to create plant-based food ingredients from underused crops and side streams. By transforming materials like barley, faba bean, chickpea, and fruit/vegetable pomace into high-value ingredients, it supports healthier, affordable food products and boosts resilience in the EU agri-food sector—closely aligning with Wageningen Food & Biobased Research’s (WFBR) mission for a more sustainable food system. High-Pressure Processing for Sustainable Plant-Based Ingredients Sustain-a-Bite technologies focus on low-energy, non-thermal methods, with high-pressure processing (HPP) as one of them. At WFBR, we apply advanced processing expertise to investigate how HPP reduces energy, water, and raw material use in plant-based
