Increasing demand for safe, natural and healthy food in the global market presents new opportunities and challenges for food scientists and food industry globally. The need for reducing the use of synthetic food preservatives and other food additives is rapidly growing due to the safety concern among the consumers. Currently only a limited number of natural food preservatives are in use in commercial products, largely due to the low and unstable efficacy and/or other technical difficulties. The aim of our project is to develop a new strategy for screening large number of plant materials for more effective natural food preservatives. The target plant species are special plants in Northern Europe and Indian spices and herbs. Metabolomics study combined with various modern bioassays and chemometric methods are applied for pin-pointing the specific metabolomic profile responsible for targeted bioactivities, for screening bioactive plant extracts, and for optimizing extraction technologies. The project is jointly funded by the Tekes-Finnish Technology Funding Agency and The Department of Biotechnology of India. The project is led by the Food Chemistry and Food Development Unit at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, Finland. The other partners are VTT-National Technical Research Center of Finland, Central Food Technological Research Institute (India), and food companies in Finland and other European countries. The project also aims to promote the collaboration in food research and business between the two countries as well as the development of the rural areas in India.

Finnish-Indian collaboration as a new strategic approach for screening of effective natural food preservatives

248th National Meeting (2014)

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