Appl(e)ause. a food design experiment to create new processed foods from apple by-products

The work addresses the challenges associated with the sustainable management of food resources through the application of knowledge from the discipline of Design. The aim of the research is to identify new scenarios to increase the competitiveness of the Piedmontese agro-industry sector by identifying new uses for the by-products of fruit processing. The work focuses on using apple pomace in the development of new edible products, enhancing local food resources, and proposing new uses for a by-product that is currently destined for disposal. By adopting a transdisciplinary and design-led approach, it was possible co-design new edible processed foods, involving different territorial actors. The first collected results showed the possibility of valorising apple pomace and reintroducing it into the food cycle, adopting a circular economy for food approach.