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CARTIF is a horizontal, private and non-profit Research Institution, whose main mission is providing innovative solutions to the industry to enhance their processes, systems and products, improving their competitiveness and creating new business opportunities. CARTIF develops R&D projects financed by private companies or through public funds obtained from competitive calls at national and international level. CARTIF is a multidisciplinary centre that works in multiple knowledge fields focused to many economic sectors: energy, food, industry, construction and infrastructures, health and environment, addressing research lines oriented to the main societal challenges, as industry 4.0, smart grids, smart cities, energy efficiency, cultural heritage, quality of life, circular economy, natural resources and biotechnology. CARTIF has an analytical testing laboratory the offers analysis services to the centre and to other companies by means of a wide offer that includes 3D digitalization, biomass characterization, food biotechnology and material nanotechnology. Some of our solutions in the FOOD field are focused on: Research on the use of new sources of proteins and the application of innovative technologies to generate new foods from alternative proteins., Solutions to generate new uses for agro-food by-products by modifying techno-functional properties through the application of innovative processes to facilitate their recovery., Development of new ad-hoc rapid detection applications to ensure food quality and safety., Innovation in food formulation and processing to improve nutritional quality, sustainability, and its relationship with health improvement., Implementation and evaluation of actions across all phases of the food chain to improve Food Systems. .