Frequently Asked Questions

Food innovation is the development of new food products.

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Food processing includes converting agricultural products into food, transforming a food product into another form and preservation and packaging techniques.

The food industry is a complex network that provides a large amount of the food that is eaten the population. This network consists of many different food producers but also businesses that take care of the distribution, processing and packiging of food.

Novel food is defined by the EU as food that had not been consumed to a significant degree of humans in the EU before 15 may 1997. For example, Exotic fruits, fermented beans and insects.

Plus Ultra means ‘Farther beyond’ in Latin.

Products that contain a lot of protein are for example: Meat and fish, eggs, dairy products, seeds and nuts, legumes like beans and lentils.

Food that contains a lot of protein. For example: Meat and fish, eggs, dairy products, seeds and nuts, legumes like beans and lentils.

If you don’t like the taste of pea proteine, you can mask the taste with other ingredients. Mix it with fruits, coconut milk or add a drop of vanilla.

Most common pant-based meat products are made from soy protein, pea protein, wheat gluten or a combination of different types of protein. Some are minimally processed and others are highly processed.

Precision fermentation is a relatively new food technology that uses microorganisms as ‘cell factories’ to produce specific enzymes, vitamines or proteins. This makes it easier to produce alternative forms of protein as less imput is needed.

Food that contains a lot of protein. For example: Meat and fish, eggs, dairy products, seeds and nuts, legumes like beans and lentils.

Products that contain a lot of protein are for example: Meat and fish, eggs, dairy products, seeds and nuts, legumes like beans and lentils.

An alternative for meat is a product with a high level of protein used to replace meat in a diet. For example, tofu, tempeh, beans or vegetarian meat products.

Lupin bean belongs to the same family as the peanot and soybean and contains a lot of protein. Lupin flour can also be found in other products such as pasta, salades and vegetarian sausage. Manufactures can use lupin to add protein or fiber.

Food and health is about eating a healthy and balanced diet. Understanding a healthy diet may make it easier to make better food choices. It is all about making the healthy choice the easy choice.

Food and health are interrealated. To increase overall nutrition and health, change must come both in the products available and consumer behaviour. In addition to increasing overall availability of healthy products in food retail, canteens, producers can create new healthy products or reformulate existing products to make them more nutritious.

Personalised nutrition could be a service or a product. It uses individual-specific information, is founded in evidencebased science and has the goal to give consumers control and promote a positive, sustainable dietary behavioural change. This may then result in measurable benefits for personal goals like health improvement and health maintenance, or disease specific benefits.

Circular agriculture means that we keep residuals of agricultural biomass and food processing within the food system as renewable resources. For example use brewer’s spent grain for human consumption.

Upcycling is reuse material in such a way as to create a product of higher quality or value than the original.

An online global community thats vision is to promote and teach upcycling as a business opportunity and innovation. It is a safe environment where you can partner up on your ideas and find inspiration from each other. Providing the right support and creating a mix of cross-sectoral organisations working on the same topic.

Upcycling is the process of reusing old materials, but it creates something more valuable or of a higher quality. Examples of upcycling include using brewer’s spent grain as an ingredient for bread s to make new shoes or reclaimed wood to make quality furniture.

Spent grain is a food waste that is a byproduct of the brewing industry that makes up 85 percent of brewing waste.

Agritech is the application of technology to improve all elements of the farming and growing process.

The Portfolio is an ecosystem collaboration, established as a Food Innovation Hub Europe Initiative, and brought to you by Foodvalley NL, EIT Food, World Economic Forum and the Food Collective. This coalition leverages the strengths of each member to work towards integrated change that is relevant to all stakeholders involved.  It aims to remove barriers to adoption of regenerative agriculture by demonstrating innovative cross-value chain solutions in Europe, enabling viable business models to boost the supply of regenerative products & ecosystem services. 

A system in which people can collaborate in an effective and pleasent manner. This ecosystem helps entrepreneurs to quickly find the resources or connections that they need in order to grow their business.

A food acceletor helps young innovative food businesses to survive the startup stage. It creates an environment to make strategic connections, find recources and expereinced mentors.