We are looking for partnership in a TASTE ECOLOGY project, aiming to rebalance taste preferences of EU consumers from HFSS foods to food rich in healthy food with more neglected tastes , biodiversity and tradition.
Activities required:
-research about taste perception and preferences in local consumers (focus on bitter-sour-spices)
-design and realisation of innovative food preparations with neglected tastes
-taste education; organisation of seminars, meeting with local schools etc
-coordination of thematic "scientific lunches" to be realised with local restaurants/communities.

We are a group of researchers at UNIMI with expertise in all area of food science and technology.
Skill related to this call: mechanisms of taste perception; bitter, somatosensory and sour tastes from traditional and neglected food plants and theior importance for health; taste rebalance strategies; food technology&innovation; fermented food and microbiology; food culture and society.
Science dissemination. Expertise in coordination of local and international projects; third mission.
We come from the Department of Food, Environment and Nutritional Sciences; Department of Philosophy and Culinary Mind Reasearch Center.