Nutritionally Superior Foods from Agricultural Waste Streams: Webinar Recording

Nutritionally Superior Extruded Foods from Agricultural Waste Streams with Dr. Syed Rizvi
FFAR awarded a $540,000 Seeding Solutions Grant to Cornell University to develop a way to convert nutritious agricultural waste into snack foods. Matching funds were provided by New York Apple Association and Cornell University for a total $1.08 million investment.
This presentation focuses on a new and novel platform for the utilization of agricultural byproducts by converting them into snack foods of unique texture and high nutritional qualities. Fruit pomace and acid whey as a subset of waste stream along with high-pressure extrusion technology that has been developed at Cornell University were utilized to establish the process efficacy and product characteristics. No such commercial process and /or product exist in the market today. The utility of the technology for making novel products and its techno-economic analysis will also be discussed.