Project dates: 01/07/2024 - Ongoing
Dietary fibres have a market value of multi-billion dollars. This project aims to produce novel dietary fibres from a food industry waste, brewer’s spent grain, using low-cost green alcohol solvents and novel enzymes. The expected outcomes include two types of novel dietary fibres, new knowledge in understanding of property-functionality relationships of the dietary fibres as well as improved process sustainability and economics achieved with the use of innovative biorefinery technologies. The biorefinery technologies are applicable to other cereal grains and grain processing by-products, such as wheat bran, accelerating the development of a new multi-billion-dollar nutraceutical manufacturing industry in Australia.
Project team
- Professor Zhanying Zhang
- Professor Phil Pope
- Mr Matthew Kronborg, Grainstone
- Dr Peyman Salehian, Allozymes
Project partners
- Grainstone
- Allozymes
Project funding
- Australian Research Council LP230201082
