a lecture about new technologies in food production

2. About
Dr.Eslam Salama
General Dentist “ BDS “
• Self Employed Scientific Researcher
• Researcher at Abhath Co.
• Author of 2 Books
1. Programming By Photoshop ‫بالفوتوشوب‬ ‫البرمجة‬
2. Technology Building ‫التكنولوجيا‬ ‫بناء‬
• Online Lecturer
Contact
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3. Objectives
 Photosynthesis
 Food from air & electricity
 Bioreactor Farm
 Natural Proteins vs Fermentation Proteins
 Fermentation
 Hydroponics
 Aeroponic technique
 Lab Produced meat
 Beyond meat
 Synthetic biology

4. Photosynthesis

5. The Main Food
For humans
Most Important
Lipids Carbohydrates
Proteins Vitamins

6. Food fromAir
and Electricity
 The idea of “food from air” is to use renewable
power to capture carbon directly from the air and
turn it into a simple compound, such as formate,
that bacteria can feed on.
 Several companies are trying to commercialize food
from air. For instance, Solar Foods of Finland aims to
have a demonstration plant running in 2023.

7. Food fromAir
and Electricity
 “If you have 10 square kilometres of soya bean
fields in the Amazon, hypothetically you could
make that 1 square kilometre of solar panels
and reforest the other nine.”

8. Formate
 Formate (IUPAC name: methanoate) is the
anion derived from formic acid.
 A formate (compound) is a salt or ester of
formic acid.“ CHO2- ”

9. Food fromAir
and Electricity
 A company called Calysta is already producing
animal feed made from bacteria fed on
methane, but the methane is derived from
fossil sources.
Methane Uses ?

10. Solar Foods
 They’ve managed to grow a nutrient rich
protein called solein, which is made from a
single microbe using carbon dioxide - from the
air - and hydrogen that is split from water using
electricity.
Solar Foods is a Finnish food-tech startup “ In Finland “ that is pilot
testing a technology that uses electricity to produce hydrogen which
is combined with carbon dioxide, water, vitamins and minerals to feed
and grow a microbial biomass that can be used as edible protein.The
company was founded in 2017. Wikipedia

11. Solar Foods

12. Solar Foods
 Image shows some food made with solein , the
protein created from water, hydrogen and
carbon dioxide in Solar Foods.

13. The Electric
Bioreactor
Farm
 After exposing the raw materials to electrolysis in a
bioreactor, the process forms a powder that
consists of more than 50 percent protein and 25
percent carbohydrates — the texture can also be
changed by altering the microbes used in the
production.
Large Scale Small Scale

14. The Electric
Bioreactor
Farm
 The next stage, is to optimize the system
because, currently, a bioreactor the size of a
coffee cup takes around two weeks to produce
one gram of the protein.

15. Green houses ?
 Agriculture and related land use is a significant
contributor to greenhouse gases worldwide
and in 2018, was responsible for pumping 9.3
billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere , according to the UN Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO).

16. Natural
Proteins vs
Fermentation
Proteins
 "The problem in the current food system is that
about one third of the climate impact due to
human action is due to what we eat, and about
80 per cent of that is due to animal production.
 Solein (is) nutritionally similar to meat and
meat like products, dairy products or milk. And
that is what we want to replace."

17. Fermentation ?

18. NASA Deep
Space Food
Challenge
• The Deep Space Food Challenge, a NASA Centennial Challenge, seeks
ideas for novel food production technologies or systems that require
minimal resources and produce minimal waste, while providing safe,
nutritious, and tasty food for long-duration human exploration missions.
• Solutions from this challenge could enable new avenues for food
production around the world, especially in extreme environments,
resource-scarce regions, and in new places like urban areas and in locations
where disasters disrupt critical infrastructure.

19. Hydroponics
 Hydroculture which involves growing plants, usually
crops, without soil, by using water-based mineral
nutrient solutions in aqueous solvents.
 Aquatic plants may grow with their roots exposed to the
nutritious liquid or in addition, the roots may be
physically supported by an inert medium such as
perlite, gravel, or other substrates.

20. Aeroponcis
 Aeroponics is the process of growing plants in
an air or mist environment without the use of
soil or an aggregate medium.

21. Aeroponcis

22. Benefits and
drawbacks
 Increased air exposure
 Benefits of oxygen in the root zone
 Other benefits of air (CO2)
 Disease-free cultivation
 Water and nutrient hydro-atomization
 Advanced materials
 Nutrient uptake
 As a research tool

23. Types of
aeroponics
 Low-pressure units
 High-pressure devices
 Commercial systems

24. Cultured Meat
 is a meat produced by in vitro cell cultures of
animal cells.
 It is a form of cellular agriculture, with such
agricultural methods being explored in the
context of increased consumer demand for
protein.

25. Cultured Meat
 Cultured meat is produced using tissue engineering
techniques traditionally used in regenerative
medicines.
 The concept of cultured meat was introduced to wider
audiences by Jason Matheny in the early 2000s after he
co-authored a paper on cultured meat production and
created New Harvest, the world's first nonprofit
organization dedicated to in-vitro meat research.

26. Cultured Meat

27. Cultured Meat
 Cultured meat may have the potential to
address substantial global problems of the
environmental impact of meat production,
animal welfare, food security and human
health .
 Specifically, it can be thought of in the context
of the mitigation of climate change.

28. Cultured Meat
 The production process is constantly evolving,
driven by multiple companies and research
institutions.
 The applications of cultured meat have led to
ethical, health, environmental, cultural, and
economic discussions

29. Beyond Meat
 Beyond Meat is a Los Angeles–based producer of plant-
based meat substitutes founded in 2009 by Ethan
Brown.
 The company's initial products were launched in the
United States in 2012.
 The company offers plant-based options in the beef,
pork and poultry categories.
 As of March 2021, Beyond Meat products are available
in approximately 118,000 retail and foodservice outlets
in over 80 countries worldwide.

30. Products
 Chicken strips
 Beyond Burger
 Ingredients
 Beyond Sausage
 Beyond Meatballs
 Beyond Meat Jerky

31. Synthetic
biology
 is a multidisciplinary area of research that seeks to create new
biological parts, devices, and systems, or to redesign systems that
are already found in nature .
 It is a branch of science that encompasses a broad range of
methodologies from various disciplines, such as biotechnology,
genetic engineering, molecular biology, molecular engineering,
systems biology, membrane science, biophysics, chemical and
biological engineering, electrical and computer engineering,
control engineering and evolutionary biology.

32. ThankYou