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Welcome to SayFood Joint Research Unit

SayFood -Paris-Saclay Food and Bioproduct Engineering- is a research unit created in 2020 by INRAE and AgroParisTech through the merger of the GENIAL and GMPA joint research units.

SayFood's mission is to acquire new scientific knowledge and propose new approaches in product and process engineering for the bioeconomy and the development of new sustainable food systems. The unit aims to contribute to product-process innovation that incorporates the constraints of upstream production as well as the needs and expectations of consumers and users. To conduct its research, SayFood relies on a range of disciplines, including process engineering, food and material chemistry and physico-chemistry, analytical chemistry, microbiology, industrial biotechnology, and consumer sciences.

SayFood comprises approximately 180 people, including researchers, teacher-researchers, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and administrative support staff. They are grouped into five multidisciplinary teams, a technological facility and an administrative support service.

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21 August 2025

By: Delphine Achour

Modeling Continuous Ice Cream Freezing

Application deadline: 20 September 2025

Fermented products such as cheese, bread and wine are the result of centuries-old know-how that mankind has enjoyed for millennia. Regarded as a lever for healthier, more sustainable food, fermentation is now attracting renewed interest from scientists, including researchers at Université Paris-Saclay, who are working to gain more insight into the composition of these products and their underlying biochemistry, their impact on human health and the environment, and the sensory perception of their future consumers.

Subject to the acceptance by the reviewers defense* is scheduled for May 22, 2025, at 1:30 PM, building C1.0.06, Agro Paris-Saclay Campus, 22 Place de l'Agronomie, 91123 Palaiseau.