A first: hummus and falafel with Belgian chickpeas for sale in at the Delhaize
Hummus and falafel made from Belgian-grown chickpeas: starting today, for the first time, now available at Delhaize.
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First soybean field trials are successful and show efficacy of Flemish soil bacteria.
Researchers at VIB and ILVO successfully conducted the first-ever field trials of soybean based on new knowledge about the interplay between bacteria, soil and crop.
Local legumes deserve boost.
Market is slowly picking up due to divergent drivers among consumers, growers and processors.
Proteins from microbial fermentation get boost with The ProteInn Club
In Ghent, an innovation platform has been christened that will advance a fairly new (f)actor in the food landscape and the broader bioeconomy, namely proteins made through fermentation-based productio...
Which farm animals live off more human edible protein than they consume? Edible protein efficiency of Belgian livestock systems calculated for the first time
The ILVO study maps out for the first time the relationship between the vegetable proteins used as animal feed, and which in principle could also be used in human food, as well as the quantity of edib...
ILVO starts breeding CHICKPEA
Of all the protein crops suitable for human consumption, after soy, chickpea (Cicer arietinum) is particularly promising for cultivation and local processing in Flanders and Northwest Europe.
Proteins from seaweed and legume residual flows
A sustainable and low-cost solution for the recovery of biofunctional and technological proteins: that is the aim of European project ALEHOOP
Alternative proteins for use in a wider range of food products?
In the Food Pilot in Melle, Flemish Minister of Agriculture and Food Hilde Crevits inaugurated the 'high moisture extruder'.
ILVO conducts algae feeding trials on broilers and laying hens for the first time
Do hens and their meat or eggs benefit from adding algae to their feed?