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The MED4Youth European project, led by the Eurecat technology centre, has picked up second prize at the 15th NAOS Strategy Awards in the category of Healthy Eating in the family and community setting awarded by the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs. The NAOS Strategy Awards recognise [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is conducting a study to assess the effects of probiotic supplementation on the symptoms of persistent allergic rhinitis and the quality of life of people affected who account for 21.5 percent of the population, with the greatest impact on young children and young people. Allergic rhinitis is a health problem characterised by inflammation [...]
The Eurecat technology centre has developed a new platform to obtain and validate ingredients and nutraceuticals that makes it possible to identify and determine their potential biological activities, using sustainable and scalable methodologies in industrial processes and new screening models, which it presented at the Nutraceuticals Europe – Summit & Expo in Barcelona. The [...]
Technological innovation is strategic in the development of new foods and ingredients in the food industry that contribute to the well-being of different population groups, where nutrition and health, robotics, digitalisation and sustainability will be the main pillars. These are solutions that open the doors to ‘an important hybridisation of digital and industrial technologies, [...]
Starting today, the Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the Food4Future World Summit in Bilbao, where it will preview innovative solutions regarding diet and health, biotechnology, sustainability, industrial and agricultural robotics and digital transformation linked to the agri-food sector, such as the DANTIAN project, which studies new bioactive ingredients and foods that promote mental well-being. [...]
The PREVENTOMICS project, coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre has developed a system for personalised nutritional and healthy life habit recommendations based on biomarkers, eating habits and physical and behavioural characteristics of the users to generate made-to-measure plans. This innovative platform would allow integration with technological applications that need to apply precision nutrition to any [...]
Technological innovation is ‘strategic for the food industry, from the point of view of developing new foods and ingredients’ to promote the well-being of different population groups, as well as from the perspective of the opportunities opened up by alternative protein sources and products designed to respond to new consumer habits, where ‘nutrition and [...]
Implementing a personalised nutrition strategy leads to following the Mediterranean diet to a greater extent and could be effective in weight loss, according to the results obtained in a clinical study carried out by the Eurecat technology centre with 134 participants who received personalised nutrition and lifestyle tips to improve their healthy habits using an online [...]
Starting today, the Eurecat technology centre is presenting the DANTIAN project at the Alimentaria fair in Barcelona. This project studies new foods and bioactive ingredients that will encourage mental well-being through the understanding of the mechanism at cognitive level and its relationship with the microbiota and intestinal health. In this vein, studies are being carried out [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is the technical coordinator of a consortium of seven companies led by Raventós Codorníu which has kicked off an ambitious project to apply artificial intelligence to production processes in the food industry. It is called ALIMENTE 21 – Smart food industry for the 21st century, and its main goal is to enhance industrial [...]
