Our institute is the only food research institute working under "General Directorate of Agricultural Research" and conducting researches in the topics below, at all over the country. Determination of the natural ingredients of food and animal feed, and their suitability of for the industry.Natural ingredients of food and animal feed, and their processing technologies. Enrichment of food and animal feed for nutrients and stuffs gained functional properties.Preventing problems which have been facing in the technology of processing and preserving food and animal feed.

Development of new products and determination of their processing technologies.Finding new technologies of processing and preserving food and animal feed. Minimising the loss of food and animal feed during ingathering, transportation, processing, storing, packing and consuming. Finding most convenient analysis methods in quality control of food and animal feed and their raw material. Determination of quality criteria of food and animal feed and collecting data for preparing Turkish Food Codex. Increasing the storage life of food and animal feed. Choosing applicable materials for packing of food and animal feed, quality control of tinware packings, and determination of some chemical materials migrate to the food from its packings. Determination of additives, residues and contaminants in food and animal feed. Finding new raw materials for animal feed industry. Utilisation by-products from food industry for animal feed production.Current status and capacity of food industry and animal feed industry and their possible capacities of development.