Cost Effective Production of Healthy and Sustainable Oils and Fats

Organization: University of Delaware

This project will establish a low-cost process for the production and recovery of healthy and sustainable oils and fats from fermentations. The resulting process would significantly decrease the cost of these oils and fats and enable them to access broad markets and applications, such as food, chemicals, and fuel. There is growing consumer interest for oils and fats that have an improved health and environmental impact to current commodity vegetable oils, which make up 20% of daily calories and represent the fastest growing sector of global agriculture. The resulting technology will provide new domestic supplies of healthy and sustainable oils and fats to meet this growing demand. 

Year Launched: 2024

Funding source: BioMADE Open Project Call