Health and health food solutions

At AZTI, we are working on:

• The determination of the nutritional requirements of different population groups, based on omic tools (membrane lipidomics and intestinal microbiota)
• The development of products based on specific nutritional requirements, convenience, comfort, quality, ethics and environmental concern and market competitiveness.
• The manufacturing processes, processing and preservation technologies to develop products and improve the efficiency of processes from the technological point of view.
• The validation of new technologies in the food sector.
• The characterisation of the technological functionality of new components and ingredients.
• The design of digital advice tools to promote healthy habits to society.

Our projects focus on three areas of research:

Precision nutrition and personalised diet

Precision nutrition for product innovation. Solutions for a personalised diet

We are working on precision nutrition, which is understood to be the adaptation of food to the specific needs of the individual for the innovation and creation of a variety of healthy products.

Formulation and processing of new food products

Healthy food

Addressing consumer needs through healthy products

Convenience, sustainability and pleasure

Innovating with products to suit consumers’ usage needs, consumption and emotions

Food Processing and Preservation Technology

Improving the quality, preservation and efficiency of products

Our innovation is achieved through technology that improves (nutritional and organoleptic) quality, preservation (product shelf-life), technological qualities (such as thickening or emulsifying capacity) and (environmental and economic) efficiency of food products. Furthermore, we generate new processes and technologies that guarantee the proper formulation and effectiveness of nutrients in transformed food.