Toast Companion™ - a circular additive from surplus bread

Toast Companion™ - 来自剩余面包的循环添加剂

• 批准号: 10055372
• 金额: $ 28.61万
• 依托单位: TOAST ALE LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10055372
• 关键词: Toast; Companion; circular; additive; surplus

Social enterprise brewery Toast Ale is building a research and development facility to convert surplus bakery bread into a low cost, environmentally positive ingredient for beer production and the wider food industry.Since Toast launched in 2016, the business has brewed with 2.5 million slices of bread that would have otherwise gone to waste. Their award-winning beer is sold nationally in Waitrose, Coop, and Ocado.By investing in the processing of surplus bread for brewing, it will increase the amount of bread it can rescue and improve the efficiency with which it can be turned into beer.This will reduce more food waste, a significant contributor to climate change and driver of land use change, reduce food costs and improve food security. Bread is one of the most wasted foods in the UK (44% of UK bread is wasted).This will also reduce the demand for malted barley, which accounts for approximately 30% of the environmental footprint of a beer.It will also create an additional revenue stream for bakeries whilst reducing their cost of waste, improving margins.With the Innovate UK grant, Toast's knowledge and expertise in small-scale brewing with bread will now be taken to an industrial scale with further innovation to wider applications beyond the brewing industry.

社会企业酿酒厂Toast Ale正在建立一个研发设施，将多余的面包转化为啤酒生产和更广泛的食品工业的低成本，环保的原料。自2016年Toast推出以来，该公司已经使用了250万片面包进行酿造，否则这些面包就会被浪费掉。他们的获奖啤酒在Waitrose， Coop和Ocado全国销售。通过投资剩余面包的加工用于酿造，它将增加面包的数量，并提高其转化为啤酒的效率。这将减少更多的粮食浪费，降低粮食成本，改善粮食安全。粮食浪费是造成气候变化的一个重要因素，也是土地利用变化的驱动因素。面包是英国最浪费的食物之一（英国44%的面包被浪费了）。这也将减少对麦芽的需求，这大约占啤酒环境足迹的30%。它还将为面包店创造额外的收入来源，同时减少他们的浪费成本，提高利润率。有了Innovate UK的资助，Toast在小规模面包酿造方面的知识和专业知识现在将被带到工业规模，进一步创新，以更广泛的应用于酿造业之外。