DOMINO is a Horizon Europe funded research project aiming to attribute health benefits to traditional fermented foods, and to develop novel plant-based fermented foods which address the changing societal demands for healthier and more sustainable nourishment.
The project will last 5 years (2023-2028) and gathers 19 partners from 10 countries, in a collaboration between top universities and research centres, as well as expert non-profit organisations and the private sector.
The activities of the project regard:
• Food and Gut Microbiome science;
• Human Nutrition, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and data sciences;
• Pilot scale plant-based fermented food production from sustainable sources;
• Food system economy;
• Citizen sciences & living labs;
• Food safety.
The expected outputs consist of:
• Impact of fermented food-based diet on health.
• Standardize diagnosis tools based on healthy microbiome biomarkers.
• Public release of food and gut microbiome data for scientific community and food production engineers.
• Demonstration and delivery of sustainable plant-based fermented food prototypes with strong positive evaluation for having enhance healthy benefit.
• Demonstration of multi-actor fermented food design with transparancy towards consumers and enhance trst in the food value chain and computational methods.
• Promotion of holistic understanding of microbiome to general public.