Katharina Pälchen had the best flash presentation on the Virtual International Conference on Food Digestion which took place on May 6-7, 2021 with her work on ‘in vitro digestion conditions to study of macronutrient digestion of chickpeas’. Many congratulations!  

Adiguna, Natalia and Sharmaine recently published an article in New Food Magazine about ‘Colouring foods’. Check this article online.

During the first week of February in 2021 the third FOODENGINE winterschool took place in an online format. Scientific lectures, discussion of the research progress, welcoming two new fellows and lots of online fun describe this training event. Read more about the content of the winterschool on the Event page.  

FOODENGINE is delighted to welcome Inthuja Manickam and Pedro Martínez Noguera to our research network. Inthuja will work on understanding and controlling the chemistry behind color evolution of plant-based ingredients during their production and will be hosted at INRAE with DöhlerGroup as the industrial partner. While Pedro will focus on the evaluation of odor-active compounds in pea-based food applications and will be hosted at INRAE with Cargill as the industrial partner. Learn more about our two ...

Many congratulations to Svenja Krause (ESR9)! Svenja was awarded the prize for ‘The best oral presentation‘ during the the doctoral days of the doctoral school ABIES (INRAE, France) on September 21-22, 2020. Svenja presented her work entitled ‘Reaction potential of pulse ingredients in processed food and the effect on food quality’.

We are happy to announce that we were selected to participate in the Science is Wonderful! event in September 2020. Science is Wonderful! brings the world of science, research and innovation to the public. We are looking forward to inform children and the society about the food for the future.

Are you curious about the experience of some fellows during their first days as a FOODENGINE Early Stage Researcher? Or are you willing to explore the plant-based diet? If the answer to at least one of these questions is YES, than you better check out the first two articles of the first FOODENGINE newsletter (click here)!

During the last week of January, the FOODENGINE network came together in Copenhagen during the second Winterschool. During this training event, the FOODENGINE fellows had the opportunity to present and discuss their research progress with the partners of the network. During a 3-days scientific course, the fellows learned more about sensorial analyses and sensometrics. Food and sensorial properties were also the ...

On the 11th and 12th of July 2019, part of the FOODENGINE fellows participated in the Researchers meet Innovators event organised by the Marie Curie Alumni Association at TU Berlin. During this event, the fellows discussed how to contribute to innovation in the value chain. Some impressions of the event can be found below.

The FOODENGINE fellows made nice movies to introduce the network and their research projects. Click on the pictures below to watch the movie about the project or the fellows.