Increased research work in the field of healthy nutrition

In 2021, an exchange took place between the ZHAW Department of Life Sciences and Facility Management and with Agroscope to discuss competencies of both research institutions in the field of systems research for healthy nutrition. With a signed declaration of intent (a "memorandum"), strategic research cooperation in the food sector is now also to be intensified.

Closing loops

The declared aim is to make a research contribution to a regenerative agro-food ecosystem in order, for example, to be able to make better use of by-products from food production, such as whey from recirculated production or bran from white flour for human nutrition. Agroscope, with its close ties to agriculture, conducts more research in primary production, while ZHAW focuses even more on processing and packaging research, among other things.

Currently, new answers and solutions are being sought in the field of fermentation processes. This also involves, for example, research into fermented foods and their influence on the intestinal microbiome, as can be seen from a statement by Agroscope emerges. A new research campus is currently being built at Agroscope in Posieux.

Together with the new "Future of Food" campus of the ZHAW and the new facility at Agroscope, the aim is to avoid duplication in Switzerland as a research location and also to regulate the handling of publications, rights and patents, which were also set out in the memorandum.

Source: Agroscope/Editorial Office