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Pea and rapeseed acreage and land use for plant-based meat alternatives in the EU
- Source :
- Oilseeds and fats, crops and lipids, Vol 28, p 54 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- EDP Sciences, 2021.
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Abstract
- Plant-based meat alternatives from grain legumes and oil crops are expected to play an increasing role in human nutrition. Several commercially available products use pea protein isolate as protein basis and rapeseed oil as lipid basis. The aim of the present study is to estimate the prospective area of peas and rapeseed for plant-based meat alternatives in the EU. A simple calculation model is employed to assess the impacts on land use and imported deforestation, in case plant-based meat alternatives substitute meat consumption in different shares. Various data sources and scenarios were used to estimate the cultivation potential. While pea acreage would increase considerably compared to current production, additional rapeseed acreage would be more limited. Even in an extreme scenario of 100% substitution only 12% of EU’s arable land would be used for pea and rapeseed as main ingredients for plant-based meat alternative. If pea protein isolate and rapeseed oil as main ingredients of plan-based meat alternatives increase, the land currently used for animal feed production would become partly available and imported deforestation could be decreased: a substitution of 25% of meat consumption would allow to provide the equivalent of food proteins without extending the cultivated areas in Europe, while avoiding soybean and maize imports for feed.
- Subjects :
- Oils, fats, and waxes
Rapeseed
030309 nutrition & dietetics
Animal feed
legumes
rapeseed
Biochemistry
03 medical and health sciences
Agricultural science
0404 agricultural biotechnology
Deforestation
pea protein isolate
Production (economics)
TP670-699
cultivation area
2. Zero hunger
0303 health sciences
Land use
imported deforestation
Pea protein
land use
food and beverages
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
15. Life on land
plant-based meat alternatives
040401 food science
Human nutrition
Environmental science
Arable land
Agronomy and Crop Science
Food Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 22576614 and 22726977
- Volume :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- OCL
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6b57d64982a0a72d950cbdf148eefcc5
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1051/ocl/2021037