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As the world population grows, the energy prices rise and climate change impacts natural resources, innovation in the food and beverage industry has become essential. This is stressed even more by the data released by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), and which will also be discussed at Food 4 Future 2022: by 2050 we will need to produce 60% more food in order to feed all of us. So, what are the emerging trends in FoodTech to solve this challenge in 2022?
- Precision fermentation
The future of fermentation is to combine it with Precision Biology. This technique, based on traditional fermentation, allows us to produce customizable molecules from a simple microorganism in a natural and cost-effective way.
The outcome is a variety of functional ingredients that can include specific features such as aromas, better tasting, or they can even be hypoallergenic. In other words, precision fermentation allows for the highly scalable manufacturing of any ingredient.
In the graph below we can see how trending the topic is: the innovation signals generated in the first quarter of 2022 are already more than half of those produced during the previous year. Before 2021 this matter was hardly generating innovation signals.