Protein Industries Canada ramps up lupin production for plant-based product development

With a excessive protein seed content material and distinctive oil and starch composition, lupin is an rising crop with important progress potential within the plant-based meals and beverage sector, stated Protein Industries Canada. 

“Lupin is an thrilling new crop for Canada that may convey new worth to Canada’s plant-based meals and ingredient ecosystem, benefiting your complete worth chain, from farmers to finish shoppers,”​ stated CEO of Protein Industries Canada Invoice Greuel.

Lupin Platform Inc., Hensall Co-op, plant-based meals producer Lumi Meals (previously Blue Heron Creamery), and PURIS have partnered to set up an built-in ecosystem to extend the manufacturing and processing of lupin in Canada. The $7.3 million challenge will develop a lupin provide and worth chain, from crop manufacturing by way of to the event and manufacturing of purposeful elements and merchandise.

Hensall Co-op, one in all Canada’s largest farmer co-operatives, will oversee agronomic analysis and testing for the lupin crop, utilizing in-house gear and processing experience to develop efficient and scalable cleansing, dehulling and milling applied sciences appropriate for mass commercialization on the processing degree. 

The processed lupin elements will then be utilized by Lumi Meals and PURIS in new product improvement for shoppers throughout North America. 

“Lupin has a novel composition that makes it an thrilling supply for plant-based protein elements. It additionally fixes nitrogen to the soil and is of course illness resistant, which reduces the necessity for inputs, decreasing emissions for sustainable farming apply and benefiting Canadian farmers that add it to their rotation,”​ stated Lupin Platform Inc. CEO Tristan Choi.