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Eurecat demonstrates photoprotective and anti-inflammatory potential of compounds from agricultural waste to improve skin health

2025-11-03T16:07:46+01:00August 28th, 2025|Food, Nutrition and Health, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre has demonstrated the photoprotective and anti-inflammatory potential of polyphenol-rich extracts from agricultural by-products such as chicory leaves, red onion skins, vine prunings and olive prunings, proving their effectiveness in three-dimensional in vitro models equivalent to human skin exposed to UV-B radiation in a paper recently published in the Journal of [...]

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Afrucat and Eurecat to fast-track innovative technology projects for sweet fruit businesses

2025-11-03T15:44:14+01:00July 21st, 2025|Corporatiu, Food, Press Notes|

The Catalonian Fruit Business Association (Afrucat) and the Eurecat technology centre have concluded a strategic partnership to fast-track developing cutting-edge tech solutions which address the main challenges facing the fruit industry. The agreement also encompasses bringing new tech capabilities to businesses in this sector and specific training and talent development initiatives to bolster professional [...]

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Eurecat drives technologies to power innovation in food and protein alternatives in the food industry

2025-11-03T15:26:17+01:00July 11th, 2025|Food, Nutrition and Health, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is developing several technologies to drive innovation in food, such as a new automated digester which will enable the food industry to analyse the digestibility and nutritional quality of new protein sources. The digester simulates the human digestive system and allows in vitro laboratory testing of the digestibility and protein [...]

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Catalan Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food visits Eurecat, which is helping more and more agri-food and rural businesses to embrace standout technologies

2025-08-27T08:40:56+02:00June 12th, 2025|Corporatiu, Food, Press Notes|

Artificial intelligence, biotechnology and robotics applied to agriculture and livestock farming and improving efficiency in the use of natural resources and food transformation processes are just some of the areas in which the Eurecat technology centre conducts technological innovation projects to make the agri-food sector and rural areas more competitive, where it is helping [...]

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Eurecat innovates in validating the efficiency and safety of new nutraceutical ingredients

2025-08-26T14:09:40+02:00May 22nd, 2025|Fires, Food, Health, Nutrition and Health, Press Notes|

At the Vitafoods Europe trade fair in Barcelona, the Eurecat technology centre is presenting advanced molecular technologies and studies for identifying new nutraceutical ingredients and designing new foods, including evaluating their effectiveness in improving health, to food, nutraceutical, nutricosmetic and pharmaceutical businesses. Eurecat furnishes the industry with technological solutions to assess the beneficial effects [...]

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Eurecat makes progress in technologies to drive innovation in food and protein alternatives

2025-08-26T14:06:48+02:00May 21st, 2025|Fires, Food, Nutrition and Health, Press Notes|

At Food4Future in Bilbao, the Eurecat technology centre showcased several technologies to drive innovation in food, such as a new automated digester it has developed which will enable the food industry to analyse the digestibility and nutritional quality of new protein sources. The digester simulates the human digestive system and allows in vitro laboratory [...]

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Eurecat showcases agricultural robots for harvesting vegetables and applying plant protection products

2025-08-26T13:56:24+02:00May 14th, 2025|Autonomous and professional robotics, Fires, Food, Press Notes|

At Food4Future in Bilbao, the Eurecat technology centre is showcasing robotic solutions for automating tasks in the agricultural industry such as detecting and harvesting vegetables, applying plant protection products, autonomous transport in the field and gathering crop data. Eurecat is exhibiting a robotic arm for detecting and harvesting vegetables such as cucumbers at this [...]

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Eurecat expands its nutrition and health clinical studies with a new facility in Cerdanyola

2025-08-26T10:22:12+02:00April 28th, 2025|Food, Nutrition and Health, Press Notes|

In May, the Eurecat technology centre is to open a health centre at its Cerdanyola site to expand its nutrition and health clinical studies addressing nutritional intervention and health promotion for agri-food and biotechnology businesses specialising in nutraceutical and nutricosmetic products along with research projects. “The new health centre Eurecat is to open at [...]

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European study to analyse the impact of endocrine disruptors during pregnancy and the first 18 months of life

2025-08-26T09:34:00+02:00April 7th, 2025|Food, Nutrition and Health, Omics sciences, Press Notes|

A European study is to look at how endocrine disruptors (EDs), chemical substances found in items such as plastics, personal care products, textiles, cleaning agents, food, furniture and electronic devices, may alter the hormonal systems of pregnant women and their babies during the first 18 months of life. The project will also assess the [...]

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International study backs Mediterranean diet in families to foster healthy and sustainable habits

2025-04-30T11:24:25+02:00March 28th, 2025|Food, Health, Nutrition and Health, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre has taken part in an international study involving 250 families with school-age children in Spain and Turkey to promote the Mediterranean diet and foster healthy and sustainable habits through digital resources, educational materials and introducing healthy plant-based products. Eurecat’s Nutrition and Health Unit, supported by the Centre for Research in [...]

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