Harnessing the microbial potential of fermented foods for healthy and sustainable food systems

Food, Bioeconomy & Natural ResourcesHORIZON-RIAID: 101060218
EC Contribution
€108,151
Consortium Size
22 orgs
Start Year
2023
Summary

European consumers are expressing a clear demand for healthier and more sustainable food. Fermented foods (FFs) have the potential to meet these expectations but there is a need to demonstrate their health impacts scientifically, while developing innovative strategies to tackle both sustainability and nutritional health. In this frame, DOMINO will investigate the health impacts of FF-based diet on a healthy population and a cohort suffering from metabolic syndrome to better focus on health biomarkers. We will provide tailor-made microbial solutions using an integrated ‘omics’ strategy and computational biology modelling to address the challenges associated with sustainable food production and healthy nutrition. In six food case studies, selected as representative of the wide diversity of plant-based FF prototypes, we will involve key stakeholders in a multi-actor approach. These objectives will lead to key results: the characterization of the health effect of milk kefir; the application of diagnosis tools based on healthy microbiome/human biomarkers to inform dietary recommendations based on FF for people with metabolic syndrome; the development of an open access database and new computational tools for profiling food microbiomes metabolic interaction during food fermentation and their overlap with the healthy gut microbiome; the delivery of a research and innovation workflow to facilitate the smart design of functional healthy FF, bio-waste valorisation, sustainable processes on plant-based food case studies using the leverage of food microbiomes’ biodiversity; all supported by a federation of key stakeholders and citizens through several living labs and a tailored dissemination strategy. Together we will develop and move towards a vision of the future of FFs in Europe while enhancing the trust of citizens in the food value chain through their involvement and genuine integration of their perspectives, paving the way for citizen-friendly innovation.

Consortium (22)

Project Results (18)

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Publications (7)
Design of a proteolytic module for improved metabolic modeling of <i>Bacteroides caccae</i>
mSystems· 2024DOI
Paulay, Amandine; Grimaud, Ghjuvan M.; Caballero, Raphaël; Laroche, Béatrice; Leclerc, Marion; Labarthe, Simon; Maguin, Emmanuelle
Fermented foods, their microbiome and its potential in boosting human health
Microbial Biotechnology· 2024DOI
Vincenzo Valentino, Raffaele Magliulo, Dominic Farsi, Paul D. Cotter, Orla O'Sullivan, Danilo Ercolini, Francesca De Filippis
Intestinal Blastocystis is linked to healthier diets and more favorable cardiometabolic outcomes in 56,989 individuals from 32 countries
Cell· 2024DOI
Elisa Piperni, Long H. Nguyen, Paolo Manghi, Hanseul Kim, Edoardo Pasolli, Sergio Andreu-Sánchez, Alberto Arrè, Kate M. Bermingham, Aitor Blanco-Míguez, Serena Manara, Mireia Valles-Colomer, Elco Bakker, Fabio Busonero, Richard Davies, Edoardo Fiorillo, Francesca Giordano, George Hadjigeorgiou, Emily R. Leeming, Monia Lobina, Marco Masala, Andrea Maschio, Lauren J. McIver, Mauro Pala, Maristella Pitzalis, Jonathan Wolf, Jingyuan Fu, Alexandra Zhernakova, Simone M. Cacciò, Francesco Cucca, Sarah E. Berry, Danilo Ercolini, Andrew T. Chan, Curtis Huttenhower, Tim D. Spector, Nicola Segata, Francesco Asnicar
Monitoring the yeasts ecology and volatiles profile throughout the spontaneous fermentation of Taggiasca cv. table olives through culture-dependent and independent methods
International Journal of Food Microbiology· 2024DOI
Chiara Traina, Ilario Ferrocino, Ambra Bonciolini, Vladimiro Cardenia, Xinping Lin, Kalliopi Rantsiou, Luca Cocolin
Unexplored microbial diversity from 2,500 food metagenomes and links with the human microbiome
Cell· 2024DOI
Niccolò Carlino; Aitor Blanco-Míguez; Michal Punčochář; Claudia Mengoni; Federica Pinto; Alessia Tatti; Paolo Manghi; Federica Armanini; Michele Avagliano; Coral Barcenilla; Samuel Breselge; Raul Cabrera-Rubio; Inés Calvete-Torre; Mairéad Coakley; José F. Cobo-Díaz; Francesca De Filippis; Hrituraj Dey; John Leech; Eline S. Klaassens; Stephen Knobloch; Dominic O’Neil; Narciso M. Quijada; Carlos Sabater; Sigurlaug Skírnisdóttir; Vincenzo Valentino; Liam Walsh; Avelino Alvarez-Ordóñez; Pablo Alvarez; Livio Antonielli; Elke Arendt; Federica Armanini; Aurelie Aubry; Jacob Baelum; Coral Barcenilla; Alejandro Belanche; Yaiza Benavent-Gil; Tony Blake; Aitor Blanco-Míguez; Radhika Bongoni; Mickael Boyer; Fiona Brennan; Samuel Breselge; Helgi Briem; Derek Butler; Inés Calvete-Torre; Omar Cristobal Carballo; Mireille Cardinal; Niccolò Carlino; Christian Chervaux; Christine Chopin; Natallia Clotaire; Mairead Coakley; José Francisco Cobo-Díaz; Jim Codd; Stephen Conroy; Karla Fabiola Corral-Jara; Karla-Fabiola Corral-Jara; Paul D. Cotter; Gerard Coyne; Gerard Coyne; Chris Creevey; Patricia D. Cuevas; Brendan Curran; Susana Delgado; Liesbeth Derde; Muriel Derrien; Danilo Ercolini; Ruth Gomez Exposito; María Mercedes López Fernández; Francesca De Filippis; Daniel Fordham; Hubert Galy; Asimenia Gavriilidou; Oddur Gunnarsson; Buck Hanson; Gerben Hermes; Rongcai Huang; Sharon Huws; Israel Ikoyi; Alice Jaeger; Ian Jeffery; Marc Jérôme; Pierre-Alexandre Juan; David Kenny; Annelies Kers; Karim-Franck Khinouche; Stuart Kirwan; Eline S. Klaassens; Stephen Knobloch; Kristinn Kolbeinsson; Laetitia Kolypczuk; Tanja Kostic; Fabio Ledda; John Leech; Doerte Lehmann; Françoise Leroi; Eva Lewis; Johanna Ley; Eva Lucic; Kieran Lynch; Sabrina Mace; Iain MacLaren-Lee; Lisa Mahler de Sanchez; Juergen Marchart; Abelardo Margolles; Viggó Thór Marteinsson; Giulia Masetti; Fiona McGovern; Noirin McHugh; Steven McLoughlin; Dara Meehan; Lars Mølbak; Thomas Monin; Javier Moreno; Diego Morgavi; Steven Morrison; Steffen Müench; Ana Rute Ramos Neves; Emma Neylon; Laura Nyhan; Rhona O’Kelly; Dominic O’Neil; Paul O’Toole; Abimael Ortiz-Chura; Juan Manuel Palma; Edoardo Pasolli; Delphine Passerini; Milica Pastar; Federica Pinto; Walter Pirovano; Olga Plans; Marion Policht; Aurel Pop; Bianca Pop; Milka Popova; Miguel Prieto; Narciso M. Quijada; Antje Reiss; Pedro Romero; Patricia Ruas-Madiedo; Francesco Rubino; Raul Cabrera Rubio; Lorena Ruiz; Angela Ryan; Clodagh Ryan; Carlos Sabater; Aylin Sahin; Cecile Salaun; Fernanda Godoy Santos; Carolin Schneider; Nicola Segata; Evelyne Selberherr; Angela Sessitsch; Sigurlaug Skírnisdóttir; Hauke Smidt; Paul Smith; Markus Sprenger-Haussels; Ilma Tapio; Julien Tap; Vincenzo Valentino; Martin Wagner; Aaron Walsh; Liam Walsh; Sinead M. Waters; Spike Willcocks; David R. Yáñez-Ruiz; Tianhai Yan; Min Yap; Emanuele Zannini; Véronique Zuliani; Avelino Alvarez-Ordóñez; Francesco Asnicar; Gloria Fackelmann; Vitor Heidrich; Abelardo Margolles; Viggó Thór Marteinsson; Omar Rota Stabelli; Martin Wagner; Danilo Ercolini; Paul D. Cotter; Nicola Segata; Edoardo Pasolli
Which factors drive consumers’ evaluation of fermented foods and drinks? A protocol for a Systematic Map
Open Science Framework· 2024DOI
Rene Geiss, Jutta Roosen
The power of fermented foods: Levers for healthier and sustainable nutrition
AgroFOOD Industry Hi Tech· 2023
Rieke Sproten
Deliverables (10)
Other Results (1)
Periodic Reporting for period 1 - DOMINO (Harnessing the microbial potential of fermented foods for healthy and sustainable food systems)