The molecules your ingredient catalog is missing.
2nd Nature finds and develops next-generation ingredients for problems today's molecules can't solve. We're starting with sugar, sodium and fiber.
Consumers’ demand has changed. The ingredient catalog hasn't.
Shoppers demand cleaner ingredients. Regulators keep pushing for less sugar and sodium. GLP-1s have people wanting healthier snacks. Formulation teams are being asked to do more with the same list of ingredients.
Every cut costs something.
Take out sugar or salt and the taste or texture shifts. The product drifts from what the team set out to make.
The list is limited.
Most food ingredients came from resources and compounds that were easiest to find decades ago. A great deal of useful chemistry still hasn't been looked at.
From the feedstock to the ingredient.
Some companies come to us needing an ingredient that does a certain job. Others come with a feedstock and want to know what's inside it. AgWastePortal™ looks through food processing side streams for useful compounds. AI-assisted process design works out how to make them at cost, and on a path regulators will accept.
Built around your needs.
Tell us the functionality you’re looking for, or the feedstock you have. We work toward an ingredient you can put in a product.
From discovery to supply.
Finding the molecule is step one. We also plan how to make it at cost and how it gets approved.
Hidden next-generation compounds.
AgWastePortal™ finds compounds standard screening misses.
Where things stand
Partners.
Early discovery work with Kanematsu.
Patents pending
on the ingredients we've discovered.
Three ingredients in development.
A no-calorie sweetener, a non-sodium umami and an enzyme that turns sugar into fiber.
Have a formulation your ingredients can't meet?
