Combination of existing and alternative technologies to promote oilseeds and pulses proteins in food applications

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The continuous world population growth induces a total protein demand increase based mainly on plant sources. To meet these global nutritional challenges, existing and innovative dry and wet fractionation processes will have to be combined to better valorise plant protein fraction from pulses and oilseeds. The worldwide success of soy protein isolates originate from the intrinsic qualities of soybean proteins but also from a continuous R&D effort since mid-twenty century. Therefore, the soy protein development model can be applied to protein isolates from diverse pulses and oilseeds meals as rapeseed which has already been recognised as novel food protein in Europe. To boost the delivery of plant proteins, agrofood-industries and academics must pool their respective expertise. Innovative and issue solving R&D projects have to be launched to better valorise pulses and oilseed proteins by (i) creating oil extraction processes which preserve native proteins structure; (ii) developing novel protein extraction processes from lab up to industrial pilot scale; (iii) producing plant protein isolates having comparable foaming, emulsifying or gelling functionality than animal; and (iv) generating hydrolysed proteins with high digestibility adapted to human nutrition. It is also essential to initiate research programs to innovate in wet and dry fractionations of plants or to design in vitro models to evaluate proteins digestibility and allergenicity. The increased awareness regarding plant protein valorisation resulted in the creation by agro-industries and academics of the open platform IMPROVE which propose a combination of competencies and equipment to boost market uptake of Plant Based Proteins.

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Chéreau, D., Videcoq, P., Ruffieux, C., Pichon, L., Motte, J. C., Belaid, S., … Lopez, M. (2016). Combination of existing and alternative technologies to promote oilseeds and pulses proteins in food applications. OCL - Oilseeds and Fats, Crops and Lipids, 41(1). https://doi.org/10.1051/ocl/2016020

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