DEMETER

The DEMETER project is funded by the European FACCE-JPI-Surplus programme and aims to study new practices for increasing resource efficiency in the food value chain via 4 predefined biorefinery routes for recovering plant residues or second-quality products.

The DEMETER project is dedicated to the valorisation of co-products from market garden production.

Among the various tasks of the programme, which is being piloted by the Belgian company Verdyun, the BIA Unit is involved in characterising pomace from fruit juice production and market garden by-products. Our aim is to develop new uses for pomace after gentle processing to produce new ingredients that promote the development of textures or provide beneficial nutritional characteristics in prototype juices or soups. These prototypes will be produced and characterised by the other INRAE team involved in the project: the UMR SQPOV in Avignon.

The overall aim of the DEMETER project is to establish a more sustainable and resilient agri-food value chain, through the differentiation of value chains and higher added-value products derived from residues or downgraded products known as second quality. Four recovery routes will be studied: production of high-quality juice, production of bulk juice, production of cold and hot soup and fractionation of pomace for the production of functional ingredients for human consumption.

The project is expected to identify the most appropriate solutions, technologies and parameters of biorefinery techniques for the direct treatment of secondary streams at collection and primary processing plants.

For each biorefinery process, DEMETER will include an economic feasibility study and an LCA (Life Cycle Assessment). By 2022, the project's industrial partners aim to recover at least 33% of their annual volume of secondary raw materials, with a minimum profit margin of 10%.

The DEMETER project partners are: Verduyn NV (Belgium), INRAE SQPOV and BIA (France), le centre technique agroalimentaire CTCPA (France), Verduyn France sarl (France) et The Juicy Group (Belgium).

Project start/end date: 01/2020 - 12/2021
Type of funding: ERA-NET
Total budget: 454 k€
Partners involved: Verduyn NV (Belgium), INRAE SQPOV and BIA (France),CTCPA (France), Verduyn France sarl (France), the Juicy Group (Belgium).
BIA team involved: PVPP

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DEMETER

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