Dr. Kemal Aganovic & Dr. Andreas Juadjur, DIL

Dr. Kemal Aganovic & Dr. Andreas Juadjur © DIL

Interviews

German Institute for Food Technology (DIL): “The Production of Protein from Grass Offers Farmers in Grassland Regions a Promising Opportunity”

The German Institute for Food Technology e.V. V. (DIL) has been researching for several years how protein from grass can be made available directly to human nutrition. A special subject of research is the grass protein RuBisCO, the most common protein in the world. With this research area, the DIL wants to drive forward the sustainable transformation of the food system. Dr. Andreas Juadjur and Dr. Kemal Aganovic look after the grassland project at DIL. In this interview, they talk to us about the innovative process of how grass produces proteins for human nutrition and what opportunities and challenges arise here for agriculture. Can you tell us a little about the progress of protein production for human nutrition from grass? The cell wall components of …

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Grass protein

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Protein

Meat Alternatives Created From Grass Protein? Schouten and Grassa Investigate

Schouten Europe has joined forces with another Dutch company, Grassa, to develop meat alternatives made from grass protein. Currently, Grassa works mainly in the agricultural sector. The company notes that when a cow eats grass, only 30% of the protein is used, with the rest converted to manure. By removing some proteins from the grass beforehand and using them for other purposes, efficiency is improved and cattle emit less nitrogen. The concept is similar to that of New Zealand’s Leaft Foods, which has developed a way to extract protein from leaves. Schouten wants to investigate whether this technology could be used to produce a local, scalable alternative to soy protein with a lower carbon footprint. According to Grassa, grass yields 2.5 times as much protein …

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