NordKelp
The NordKelp project addresses innovation in the food industry and the emerging marine bioeconomy based on cultivated macroalgae. The project focuses on cultivated kelps (large brown macroalgae) as renewable and non-traditional food crops for the provision of safe, nutritious and flavourful ingredients to the food industry. The project will summarize and disseminate the state-of-the-art knowledge from recent and ongoing R&D activities related to the processing and quality of kelp biomass to food applications.
The cultivation of kelp biomass is increasingly recognized as climate-resilient with the potential to mitigate climate change and to support coastal biodiversity, and is an emerging sector of the blue bioeconomy in the Nordic region. Hence, kelp cultivation has a large potential to provide future-oriented solutions for sustainable food production from the oceans. The project consortium, consisting of leading industrial stakeholders and research groups with internationally recognized expertise within the fields of food science, food risk assessment, sensory and consumer science and kelp production systems will i) communicate the potential of kelp as an ingredient in food applications, ii) provide guidelines for optimal post-harvest methods of kelp to food applications based on state-of-the-art knowledge, iii) provide recommendations for further R&D work within the production of kelp and macroalgae to food applications and iv) strengthen the Nordic cooperation across the food sector, macroalgae production and relevant research institutions.
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