Research Activities

• Future Meat

  The goal of the “Future Meat” project is to build on the results of the “Cleaner Meat” project to achieve a legally compliant, sensorially acceptable, and industrially scalable nitrite-free formulation for sausage products without “hidden” nitrate/nitrite, with Work Package 4 – Sensory Evaluation & Consumer Acceptance focusing on sensory parameters throughout the development process. In this work package, sensory comparisons between the nitrite-free and standard variants will be conducted to investigate the effects of the absence of nitrites on sensory characteristics such as taste, color, consistency, texture, and mouthfeel.

• Ölive

  Since 2019, farmers in five Austrian federal states have been working on establishing domestic olive production. The next step is to research and evaluate processing and production options for the harvests from the fruit of around 5,000 agriculturally cultivated olive trees.

• Exotisches Österreich

  Sensory evaluation of selected exotic organic spices, herbs, and teas through hedonic testing as part of the EIP-AGRI project "Exotisches Österreich"

• o.leaves

  The project aims to identify potential uses for olive leaves that are produced as harvest waste.

• Cleaner Meat

  Sensory analysis of salt- and nitrite-reduced meat products

• SusFoMa

  Sustainable Transformation of Food Byproducts into processable Materials

• Wissenschaft trifft Schule – Climate-friendly food

  Facing the considerable impact of the food market on global warming, the project examines prevailing consumption barriers for climate-friendly products and develops concrete practical measures for the development, positioning and marketing of climate-friendly food products.

• Schnellmethoden Vergleich

  Sensory rapid methods are relatively new methods, which promise an increase in efficiency, especially for small and medium-sized companies, through cost reduction and time savings. For this reason, the present project aims to comprehensively compare the rapid methods CATA and napping with one another.