Saveggy - Plant-based protection to keep fruits and vegetables fresh longer

45% of fruit and vegetables go to waste every year. Currently, plastic packaging is used to extend the shelf life of fruit and vegetables.

Cucumber with and without saveggy

Year:

2024

Category:

Green & blue industries

Responsible Researcher:

Vahid Sohrabpour, Arash Fayyazi, Pirjo Wiena, Lars Nilsson, Federico Gomez, Annika Olsson

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Saveggy has developed an edible plant-based protection for fruits and vegetables to reduce food waste and replace plastic packaging. We are supported by Lidl, EIP (Jordbruksverket), Eurostars, Sten K Johnsons Stiftelse, Krinova, Ideon Innovation & SmiLe Incubator. We are on a mission helping the world waste less. The pilot launch of the first protection for cucumber was conducted in 2024 with Lidl and we are in process of the high scale launch.

IVA’s 100 List 2024: Innovation through Interdisciplinary Research

IVA’s 100 List 2024 highlights a diverse range of research projects from Swedish universities, under the theme Technology in the Service of Humanity - Innovation through Interdisciplinary Research. The projects have been selected based on their great potential to create value through commercialization, business and method development, or societal impact. All participating researchers are interested in increased contacts with the business sector for the application and further development of their projects.

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