Abstract
Abstract Current societal challenges and recent knowledge acquisition now provide the conditions for the renewal of our collective vision of food science and technology. To meet increasingly complex challenges, it obvious that current reductionist approaches in food science must give way to a knowledge-intensive framework for function-driven research and innovation. This implies a need for more in-depth, multiscale characterization of bioresources, leading to the detailed description of functional entities (molecules, macromolecules, substructures and assemblies etc.) and the development of new transformation technologies. These must provide the underpinning knowledge to devise specific transformations, using minimal energy and water inputs, and generate the targeted end-user products. We should thus consider food manufacturing as a complex systems problem, dealing with heterogeneous product matrices (agents), changing processing conditions (environmental context), non-linear behaviour (phase changes), novel functional properties (emerging phenomena), etc. Accordingly, we propose a new research methodology and innovation agenda, hereby utilizing the knowledge that we have gained in the past decade and described in this Special Issue.
Highlights
It is vital to recall that all of the Earth’s resources are intrinsically finite and that recycling is a wise strategy, it is inevitably imperfect
Humanity is faced with a conundrum: the world population requires a sufficiently plentiful and stable supply of nutritionallybalanced food, while mobilizing agricultural and forest resources for the production of biobased non-food items that will offset current requirements for fossil resources; a far from easy task (Fig. 1.)
Scientific progress is increasingly demonstrating its feasibility. In this special issue of IFSET, we show how research performed by INRA and its partners is providing basic knowledge and new process concepts to achieve this ambition
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