AMPs-based Food Preservation Solution

In response to the problems of food safety caused by preservative contamination and efficient environmental safety caused by pollutants, the development and application of broad-spectrum, novel natural food preservatives have become an important research trend in modern food safety. Aprofood provides food preservation solutions based on antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), which will be expected to play a key role in the application of food preservation due to the advantages of AMPs such as broad spectrum of bacterial inhibition, good stability, unique mechanism of bacterial inhibition, and not easy to be retained.

Introduction of AMPs

AMPs are a class of small molecule peptides produced by the host that can defend against external microbial attacks and eliminate mutant cells in the body. Usually composed of 20-60 amino acid residues, they are also known as peptide antibiotics or natural antibiotics. because AMPs are proteins in nature, they are broken down into basic amino acids in the animal body and have no residual problems. Moreover, AMPs are small molecule peptides with no immunogenicity, and their antibacterial mechanism is special and not easy to produce drug resistance. These advantages in bacterial inhibition indicate that AMPs have great potential for application in the field of food preservation.

Overview of AMPs resistance

• Antibacterial activity
• Antifungal activity
• Antiparasitic activity
• Antiviral activity
• Anti-tumour cell activity

Our Solutions

With high efficiency and broad-spectrum resistance, as well as the advantages of small molecular weight, no residue, and not easy-to-develop drug resistance, AMPs are expected to play a key role in food safety and preservation. Aprofood provides AMP-based food preservation solutions from three aspects.

• In the food raw material control segment, we will provide AMP development solutions within this scenario to replace or reduce the use of pesticides (veterinary drugs) and improve the safety and quality of food processing raw materials.
• In the food preservation and freshness segment, we will develop AMPs as highly efficient and safe biological preservatives applied in many aspects of food processing, storage, and transportation to solve the problem of food preservative residues.
• We develop solutions for the application of AMPs in agricultural production and food preservation, which will help to reduce the use of antibiotics and the emergence of environmentally resistant strains of bacteria, and thus improve the environmental conditions for food safety.

Our Advantages

Innovative

Efficient

Safe

Widely Used

Given the advantages of AMPs, such as no residue, and even most of them have some nutritional and health care effects such as immunomodulation on the human body, Aprofood will continue to develop and promote their application to various scenarios of food preservation. We are in the process of establishing a safety evaluation system and evaluation criteria for AMPs to screen out AMPs with different safety levels, which can help you to research and develop safety standards for AMPs for different applications. Please feel free to contact us.