Protein Network

Network Bridge2Food in an active partner in helping create an international food protein innovation network for professionals active in business, development and research. As well as running basic Food Protein Courses every 1½ years for young food professionals, we organize annual Food Protein Innovation (FPi) Conferences for experienced managers involved in the food manufacturing and the food ingredient industries. The 2008 FPi Conference will be organized in Europe, while the 2009 Conference is to be held in the USA.

The FPi 2008 will focus on the following subjects: health & nutrition and texture & taste. The protein industry is in its emerging phase in respect of health and nutritional research. Many new products are popping up. During he recently basic food protein course we concluded that there is a need for more networking in the food industry on proteins. The current price increases for milk proteins have led to a swift in interest and importance of vegetable proteins. Yet the vegetable-based food protein industry is “only” 20 years old and still very much in development. More industry cooperation is needed to make better foods.