Advanced Process Technologies

ATFM will build on the current understanding of the complex connections between food composition, nutrition, and health. This knowledge will be used to develop scientific methods to manage and monitor both physical and physiological functional quality attributes alongside traditional sensory and nutritional quality indices. The interdisciplinary collaboration of the ATFM will generate scientific knowledge and develop technological skills that will deliver predictive models that elucidate the effects and interactions of processing on the structure, sensory properties, and chemical, physiological, and nutritional functionalities of food products.

Project 1:

Extrusion properties of protein for the manufacture of novel and healthy foods

Project 2:

Exploring the use of dried food materials as natural flavours to improve the flexibility of product formulation

Project 3:

Protein recovery from vegetable processing wastewater effluent streams

Project 4:

Lupin processing to produce several processed ingredients with enhanced flavour and aroma properties

Project 5:

Lupin processing for enhancing nutritional properties particularly micronutrients and their bioavailability

Project 6:

Development of new functional food traits in peanuts

Project 7:

Quantitative proteomics for differential metabolic analysis of peanut genotypes showing high and low antioxidant capacities

Project 8:

Postharvest technology of fruit and vegetables