The Good Food Institute Brazil is honored to announce the list of approved candidates in the call for research incentive projects InovAmazônia: Ingredients for the Plant-Based Food Market. With resources and support from JBS Fund for the Amazon, approximately R$2,7 million will be invested to carry out the seven approved research projects.
The selection process took into account the requirements set out in the call for proposals, such as the requirement that proposals be submitted by researchers residing in the Brazilian Amazon or other regions of the country, as long as they established partnerships with researchers and universities in the biome targeted by the call. In addition to this aspect, the research also required that the research involve communities, cooperatives, associations, or agribusinesses located in the Amazon Biome.
“By the end of the project, we hope to identify edible fungi for the production of ingredients, textured proteins for the production of analogous vegetable meats from species such as tucumã, cocoa and cupuaçu, as well as new sources of proteins, fibers, natural pigments, oils and fats and ingredients that improve the flavor, texture and aroma of analogous vegetable meats, maintaining a clean label appeal, increasingly desired by consumers,” says science and technology specialist and project coordinator, Luciana Fontinelle.
Final approval of the projects depends on the signing of the Partnership Agreement between GFI Brazil and the responsible institutions. Therefore, the list may be subject to change. The contracted research should begin between July and August 2023.
Check out our latest releases
18/12/25
