The overall aim of the project is to develop a database of plant origin Traditional Foods containing emerging bioactive compounds with putative health effects in the Black Sea Region.
BaSeFood promotes a rationale for sustainable economic development in the area of production and processing of tradition-based healthy foods, benefiting producers and the consumer.
BaSeFood structure and activities have been developed around the following points, inherent to two key concepts of bioactive substances and traditional foods:
- there is an increased concern, especially in Western, industrialised world, for chronic- degenerative diseases connected to non-optimal nutritional habits;
- several plant components (bioactives) are presently being studied for their potential positive effects on human health;
- unifying approaches have been taken, setting up international standards for database management and formats for data acquisition, to which BaSeFood refers;
- the health promoting concept is considered a potent tool to add values to food and, as such, is highly considered by the European Food industry;
- both the science approach to the study of bioactives, and the industrial approach to product development are often led by technology or science push, not taking sufficiently into account the chain perspective and the opinion of end users;
- traditional foods are often considered as containing a concentration of positive traits, connected to several aspect of their production chain, including positive spontaneous relation with healthy properties.
- Black sea region traditional foods are lesser known.
From an operative point of view, BaSeFood contributes to the scientific study of bioactives of Black sea area traditional foods by means of rigorous analytical and biological assays, in the context of unifying methodologies and data acquisition, and considers a vast array of characteristics of traditional foods and consumer concerns, in order to put health claims in a favourable context, to be properly understood by people and exploited by stakeholders.

Preparation procedures of traditional foods of the Black Sea Countries.

A book containing the ingredients, recipes, and flowcharts for the preparation of 33 traditional foods of the Black Sea area countries: Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russian Federation, Turkey and Ukraine. This publication can serve as a basis for the semi-industrial production of the traditional foods.
Download Book here.
Also available in a hard copy from the Hellenic Health Foundation. Please send request to info@academyhealth.gr.

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BaSeFood is a collaborative research program funded by the European Commission within Theme 2: Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology of the Seventh Framework Programme.