Today Food Tank is highlighting these 12 companies that upcycle food waste into new products from snacks, to ready-to-eat meals, cooking ingredients, and more.
-ÄIO uses waste streams from the food, agriculture, and wood industries to produce fat substitutes for food and cosmetics. Kudos to ÄIO and their amazing team Nemailla, Petri-Jaan, Mary-Liis, Kristi, Luísa, Vitali, Gaia, Mateus.
-Bake Me Healthy, United States and Kimberle Lau. Bake Me Healthy mixes are free from the nine most common allergens and made with fruits and vegetables that do not fit aesthetic standards to be sold in grocery stores and byproducts from fruit and vegetable processing.
-Barnana, PBC, United States
Barnana partners with indigenous-run regenerative farms in Latin America to source bananas and plantains that are diverted from market.
-Cáscara Foods, Chile
Cascara Foods rescues fruit pulp and byproducts like peels and stems that hold key nutrients essential to a healthy diet.
-CRUST Group, Japan
Crust Group operates in Singapore and Japan and partners with restaurants and hotels to help them reduce food waste. The company primarily upcycles surplus bread and other ingredients into beer and surplus fruit peels into non-alcoholic fruit juice.
-Green Bowl Foods, United States
The company makes ready-to-eat, shelf stable, and preservative free plant-based meals with a mix of fresh and upcycled ingredients.
-I Am Grounded, Australia
I Am Grounded has turned coffee fruit into energy bars since 2019, saving over 15,000 kilograms of fruit.
-Matriark Foods, United States
Rather than wasting surplus vegetables from farms or fresh cut remnants, Matriark transforms them into healthy, low-sodium vegetable products like pasta sauce and vegetable broth.
-Oisix ra daichi, Japan
Oisix ra Daichi is a Japanese retailer that focuses on selling quality organic and additive free products to consumers.
-PLANETARIANS, United States
Planetarians uses spent yeast and soybeans to create a vegan meat product; they have made the product as cheap as chicken and cheaper than beef and it produces 120 times less greenhouse gas emissions than beef.
-PLUCK | happy natural food & drinks, Canada
Toronto-based tea company Pluck uses zero waste packaging, locally sourced ingredients that reduce transportation emissions, and small batch production.
-Rootly, Denmark
Rootly produces plant-based meat products like falafel and steak using surplus beet, carrot, and mushrooms and excess pulp from juice production.