Food and feed products from micro-algae: Market opportunities and challenges for the EU
By M. Vigani, C. Parisi, E. Rodríguez-Cerezo, M. Barbosa, L. Sijtsma, Matthias Ploeg, C. Enzing. 2015
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Micro-algae are a new and promising source of nutrients. The main products obtainable are dried algae with high nutrients content and high-value compounds such as fatty acids, pigments and anti-oxidants. This paper analyses the market and the economic opportunities of micro-algae-based food and feed sectors in the EU through an integrated methodology composed by literature search, interviews to experts and Delphi survey. Results show that the quantities produced and the market size of nutrients obtained from micro-algae are still significantly smaller in comparison to the ones derived from cereals and other commodity crops, but that the sector has seen an impressive and unique growth. Despite the challenges due to the climatic conditions together with the insufficient domestic demand and the complexity of the EU Novel Food regulation, the survey revealed that the EU can improve its market position in the next decade, thanks to its scientific and technological capacity and its dominant position in the global agri-food markets. New micro-algae-based products can be developed for foreign markets, and the improved global production share of European firms (presently of about 5%) may be the result of strategic acquisitions of foreign companies.
Subfields: Food Science, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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- Future Protein Supply and Demand: Strategies and Factors Influencing a Sustainable Equilibrium (2017, background): “Regulatory restrictions on novel food and novel food ingredients, food safety, nutrition and food health claims can delay the pace of commercialization of algae [86].”
- The environmental sustainability of insects as food and feed. A review (2017, background): “Other alternative protein sources investigated both as food and feed are as follows: seaweed (Mohamed et al. 2012; Makkar et al. 2016), duckweed (Appenroth et al. 2017), canola/rapeseed (Campbell et al. 2016), micro-algae and other microbes (Vigani et al. 2015), and insects (Van Huis et al. 2013).”
- Microalgal Biostimulants and Biofertilisers in Crop Productions (2019, background): “Different microalgae-based products (MBS and MBF) are available commercially for use in agriculture as innovative and promising products to improve crop yields [97].”
- Root morphological and molecular responses induced by microalgae extracts in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) (2018, background): “Many microalgae-based products are available for use in agriculture as a new and promising source of crop nutrients (Vigani et al. 2015).”
- Single Cell Protein—State-of-the-Art, Industrial Landscape and Patents 2001–2016 (2017, background): “Enzing et al. (2014) and Vigani et al. (2015) provide useful surveys of the companies and countries involved in production of microalgae as food or feed.”