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Innovation is Our Target
R+D+i
We have excellent in-house laboratory facilities with the latest equipment, which allows our R&D team to develop new products by carrying out analysis and working together with our customers, thus offering maximum flexibility. Delafruit also actively promotes research and development in order to be at the forefront of innovation and pass on this expertise to our customers.
We Build Your Product
What do we do?
At Delafruit we are equipped with the most advanced food processing technologies which allows us to offer you the highest quality products.
In-house Laboratory
We use the most advanced food processing technologies, which means that we can offer you the highest quality products.
Development
We have excellent in-house laboratory facilities with the latest equipment, which allows our R&D department to constantly develop new products.
Certification
Delafruit is an award-winning company, renowned for its contribution to research and development projects.
PRODUCT
The development of healthy, nutritious and great-tasting products that help improve the quality of people’s diets, and reduce the prevalence of preventable, food-related diseases which have a major impact on society.
TECHNOLOGY
Keeping at the forefront of the alternative food processing technology sector by supporting the development and industrial implementation of emerging technologies.
PACKAGING
Implementation of a sustainable packaging system. Replacement of multi-material packaging by 100% recyclable mono-material packaging. Increasing the use of bio-based and recycled packaging.
MARKET
Designing products adapted to the needs of specific sections of the population to promote personalised and inclusive nutrition.
STRATEGY
Reduction of waste originating from industrial activities. Re-evaluation of by-products generated during industrial processes.
HEALTH
Development of processes to obtain fibre, protein and other added value nutrients from the company's by-products, in order to reintroduce them into the food chain.
ENVIRONMENT
Development of ways to transform by-products into high value-added ingredients for animal feed.
TECHNOLOGY
Development of ways to give new value to the company's waste, beyond the food industry, eg. biofertilisers and bioenergy.
R+D+i Projects
The Delafruit company is very pro-active in carrying out R+D+I projects. By participating in these projects, the scientific and technical knowledge of our department is widened through contact with research centres, universities, public bodies and other companies in the same field.
Ongoing projects
Jul 2022
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Waste from the agri-food industry to be the raw material for compostable packaging thanks to a new project.
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Development of tools, methodologies and educational strategies methodologies, such as mobile applications, innovative educational strategies by participating schools and healthy snacks based on plant foods, to encourage the consumption of a mediterranian diet in families with school-age children.
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link: switchtohealthy.eu
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MM Pouch
Mono-material pouch for Food products
Jan 2021
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Implementation of monomaterial pouch solutions in the food industry form fruit juices and purees pasteurized.
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Amb el suport de l'Agència de Residus de Catalunya
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Obtention of new fungi and plant-based protein ingredients and products.
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FOOD4STROKE
Development of products and ingredients with neuroprotective properties.
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Design of new routes to enable the revalorization of by-products to obtain natural preservatives and functional feeds.
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Completed projects in chronological order
Research and development of products for people suffering from food allergies and intolerances.
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Reduction of sugar consumption through the development of new natural sweeteners.
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RECICLE
Evaluation of management processes for post-consumer packaging waste.
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Development of innovative food products with satiating effort as an strategy to tackle obesity epidemics.
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Development of new food products to fight Metabolic Syndrome
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Development of products to improve bone health in children
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Improvement of superfoods supply chain and development of new products.
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Development of a competitive strategy for improving the sustainability of the agri-food chain and the efficient use of natural resources.
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Development of food products with new sources of protein aimed at specific segments of the population.
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Development of a new product range of dietary fibres obtained from fruits such as apples and oranges
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Development of products aimed at tackling adult chronic diseases.
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