Context
The active ingredient eliminates stages and helps to prepare bean broth, which is traditionally produced in several processes, such as: cooking, grinding and sieving to remove the integuments. By using instant cowpea cotyledon flour, time and practicality is gained.
About the asset
Instant pre-cooked cowpea cotyledon flour. Its main application is for the preparation of instant soups. It is an alternative to the traditional way of consuming cowpeas, which is an important food because it is nutritious and beneficial to health, and whose per capita consumption has been reduced in recent decades; modern living requires foods that are easy and fast to prepare, such as the instant cowpea soup.
Technology readiness level on TRL/MRL scale: 5
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Theoretical models
Lab assays
Pilot scale
Final/full scale
Proof of concept
Prototypes
Market
Characteristics in comparison with competitors available in the market
Instantly-prepared, nutritious, biofortified, health-benefitting, gluten-free, vegan, easily-portable food that can be sold in single servings.
Impacts for the production sector and for society
• Product with high nutritional value
• Three times more protein than traditional (wheat, corn or rice) flours
• Product with high nutritional quality, contributing to improved consumer health
• Gluten-free and more nutrient-rich product
• Instant food
• Three times more protein than traditional (wheat, corn or rice) flours
• Product with high nutritional quality, contributing to improved consumer health
• Gluten-free and more nutrient-rich product
• Instant food
Partnership goals
- Market and/or Commercial Validation
- Technical and/or Industrial Validation
- Asset licensing
- Codevelopment (proof of concept to prototype)
- Market Development
What is expected from the partnership?
The partnership aims at the progressive improvement of product quality, considering that the industry has structure for large-scale production meeting the quality standards required by the market and legislation, in addition to the trade of the instant flour for target audiences.
How will the technology be offered to the production sector?
It will be offered through the transfer of know–how aimed at industrial and commercial validations.
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