PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT OF GLUTEN-FREE FOOD PRODUCTION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

One of the ways to implement the state policy in the field of healthy nutrition of Ukraine is to develop highly efficient technologies in the processing industries, search for new domestic raw materials and create a new generation of food enriched with essential micronutrients. The analysis of the world experience in the production of gluten-free products allows us to conclude that today there is a wide choice of this group of products, but the main share in the market of gluten- free food in Ukraine is occupied by imported products. Experts in the food industry have proven that the human diet should include more than six hundred mutually balanced nutrients, which in practice cannot be achieved by eating conventional foods, even with their wide variety. In this regard, it is necessary to make more intensive use of innovations in the food industry: to compile and develop new generation food recipes, efficient numerical methods, mathematical models, algorithms for implementing the latest information technology in the form of problem-oriented programs for various industries. Including, when creating new foods. Analysis of the production of gluten-free functional products allows us to conclude that today the main share of the gluten-free food market in Ukraine is occupied by imported products, which indicates the relevance of development and implementation of domestic technologies and recipes for gluten-free products. Taking into account the world and domestic experience in the production of gluten-free products, it is possible to create problems and initiate their solution based on the introduction of new technologies and recipes directly into production based on the use of domestic raw materials. The need to provide patients with celiac disease with quality and inexpensive specialized products of domestic production based on the development of the latest advanced technologies and recipes for gluten-free production using annually renewable raw materials is an urgent task today. In addition, the introduction of innovative technologies in the domestic production with the use of domestic raw materials for functional purposes for cafes, restaurants and other catering establishments is also an urgent task in connection with the development of the tourism business.