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Wheat bran is a common side stream in the agricultural sector. In Sweden alone about 80 000 ton wheat bran is produced each year and the product mainly ends up in low value applications such as animal feed or is burnt for energy. Microbial fungi have the potential to utilize these low valued side streams to produce a highly nutritious protein. Within this project wheat bran will be supplied by Berte Qvarn and upcycled to a nutritious fungal protein biomass by Mycorena. The fungal cell walls are however to some extent rigid and therefore RISE will take part in the project and study the possibility of pre-treatments to the biomass in order to increase the protein accessibility in an in vitro digestibility study. Further, a protein extraction process, aiming to obtain a highly functional fungal protein isolate, will be explored. As a final goal, food prototypes of the fungal biomass with an increased amount of easily digestible protein produced from a waste stream, will be created. Also, a food prototype within a different segment than meat-replacers will be looked into for the protein isolat