And why manufacturing economics are as important as nutrition Beetroot doesn’t have an awareness problem. Its naturally occurring nitrates and their relationship with nitric oxide have been extensively studied, particularly in relation to exercise performance and vascular health. As a result, beetroot has become a familiar ingredient across sports nutrition, functional foods, powders, supplements and […]
Recovering value is becoming more important than producing volume. “The greatest untapped natural resource isn’t hidden beneath the ground. It’s already being harvested every day.” [Roy Henderson, CEO GCT®] For more than a century, industrial progress has been measured in volume. More steel. More coal. More wheat, timber, fish, milk, oil and so on… More production has almost […]
As the industry moves from cultivation to commercialisation, are we investing enough in processing infrastructure? The Seaweed Industry’s Next Bottleneck As the global seaweed industry gathers in Gothenburg for Seagriculture EU 2026, much of the conversation will rightly focus on scale. How does it move beyond pilots? How does it attract investment? How does it […]
A recent FoodNavigator article on functional beverages highlights a challenge that extends far beyond drinks. The article makes a simple but important point: functional beverages can no longer rely on health claims alone. Consumers expect products that taste good, deliver credible benefits, feel natural, are priced correctly, and fit into their everyday lives. That is not just a […]
Why Do We Eat? And How We Lost Our Way We eat for fuel.At least, that’s what food was always meant to be. Fuel for the body.Fuel for the brain.Fuel for growth, repair, resilience, and health. And yet, somewhere along the way, we stopped eating to live – and started living to eat. This shift did […]
From Waste to Value: How Intelligent Processing Will Shape Our Future As another year draws to a close, the global conversation around sustainability, circularity and food security grows louder. There are more panels, more pledges, more reports, and more “bold visions” than ever before. And yet, a quiet truth is emerging beneath the noise: Despite all […]
The New Frontier of Waste Utilisation Why the world’s most overlooked resource may also be its most profitable From waste to wealth: the hidden opportunity in agro-residues Every harvest produces two things: a primary crop, and everything else.For decades, that everything else – husks, stems, pulp, peels, and by-products – has been treated as waste. Globally, we generate billions […]
From Cultivation to Consumer Why processing must be the next leap in the biomaterials economy – how next-generation processing technologies will determine who wins in the bio-based future. Around the world, industries are racing to replace petrochemical feedstocks with renewable, biological ones. From kelp-based packaging to mushroom leather, from hemp fibres to food waste-derived biopolymers, the biomaterials revolution is well underway. But […]
Waste is the Hidden Hunger – Better Processing not More Production Needed In January 2025, Nobel and World Food Prize laureates issued a powerful open letter in The Guardian, calling for a “moonshot” transformation in how we produce and distribute food. They warned that by 2050, the world could face catastrophic instability unless bold new approaches are […]
Feeding the Future From What We Already Have We’re living in an age of paradox. On one hand, there is more than enough food produced globally to feed every person on Earth. On the other hand, hunger and malnutrition persist – both in the Global South and in wealthy nations like the United States, where millions still […]