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Innovative plant protein fibre and physical activity solutions to address poor appetite and prevent undernutrition in older adults (APPETITE)
Project
Project code: 2820ERA19E
Contract period: 01.04.2021
- 31.03.2024
Budget: 126,461 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: food pattern, nutritional information/recommendation, malnutrition, human studies, food technology, food engineering, nutrients, plant nutrition, prevention, elderly people, catch crop
The overall objective of APPETITE is to prevent undernutrition in community-dwelling older persons by enhancing appetite through targeted nutrition and physical activity. This objective will be pursued by developing innovative, acceptable, accessible, and affordable, easily applicable food products based on combinations of several plant proteins and dietary fibres for and together with older persons with poor appetite, and by subsequently examining the effects of selected products – with and without physical activity – on digestibility, amino acid bioavailability and whole-body protein metabolism, appetite, incidence of undernutrition and other nutritional and functional outcomes in older persons with poor appetite and at high risk of undernutrition. The main objective of Fraunhofer IVV will be the development of innovative plant-protein fibre products with attractive sensory properties and balanced amino acid profiles in cooperation with older adults with a poor appetite, and to elucidate effects of product properties on in-vitro digestibility.
Section overview
Subjects
- Physiology of Nutrition
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (FhG)
