Cluster

Food Sciences and Technology

The Food Sciences and Technology Cluster is working on the challenge of converting the world’s harvests into safe, healthy and good food for our changing global population. Now and for the decades ahead in the entire food system. The Food Sciences and Technology research unit incorporates two major mutually linked and multidisciplinary lines of research.

Our cluster themes

Sustainability

Sustainable food production
New mechanical insights and technologies for reducing environmental impact
Higher food quality
Sufficient food for a growing global population
Additional alternative sources of protein

Nutrition during Consumption and Digestion

Good food digestibility
Healthy and safe composition
Optimal in quality, taste and appearance
Macro and biological availability of micronutrients
Specific use by consumers or groups of consumers

Our objective

The overall aim of the Food Sciences and Technology cluster is to be the leading unit of food science disciplines, by combining the joint expertise in all five disciplines with world class facilities into a centre that can work cross-disciplinarily to create novel mechanistic understanding and to invoke new principles to pro-actively enable our society to tackle the challenges of turning the world’s harvests into safe, healthy and enjoyable foods for our changing populations, for decades to come.

About us

Food Sciences and Technology aims to be the leading research unit for food science disciplines in the world. The cluster works closely with other partners on the basis of combined expertise from five disciplines, both within Wageningen University & Research and outside.

The cluster is working on plant-based protein products that will be able to replace animal products in our nutrition. This may not be done at the expense of high quality, taste, nutritional value or safety. It is important to utilise all components of the raw materials, to close chains and to look for alternative, unutilised, sources of edible protein.

Stories that connect us

Education

The Food Sciences and Technology cluster puts students, professionals and others in a position to develop in the field of foodstuffs technology through knowledge, guidance and assistance, training, infrastructure and expertise through close collaboration with social partners.

Contact

MAJ (Marloes) Pals MA
Cluster coordinator
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Connected chair groups

Food Chemistry

Gaining knowledge of compounds in agricultural raw materials, food ingredients, and their modifications for application as food/feed or building blocks for biochemical use.

Food Quality and Design

Designing better foods and improve food quality throughout the food chain.

Food Process Engineering

Exploring new principles for preparing food structure and ingredients.

Physics and Physical Chemistry of Foods

Integrating physics, meso-structure design and development, and application-driven research, to enable innovations more effectively.

Food Microbiology

Generating and disseminating genetic and physiological knowledge as well as knowledge of ecology, fermentation and quantitative methods to understand and predict microbial behaviour and to propose intelligent interventions for the assurance of microbiological food safety and quality.

Sustainable Development Goals

The cluster Food Sciences and Technology contributes to the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s):

Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

MAJ (Marloes) Pals MA