AgWastePortal™. The engine behind our next-generation ingredients.
Vision
Most food ingredients came from compounds people already knew how to find. AgWastePortal™ looks inside agriculture, post-fermentation, and dairy feedstocks. It finds hidden molecules, peptides, enzymes, fibers and proteins, and predicts which ones could change how everyday products taste, feel, and hold up.
AgWastePortal™ in action. Each string represents a peptide in 2nd Nature’s molecular database. A user-defined query (e.g., identifying umami in spent noodles) directs the AI to explore this search space and surface candidate molecules predicted to deliver the desired functionality
Discover. Develop. Deploy.
Discover
AgWastePortal™ maps what's in a feedstock and flags compounds likely to do a certain job, like add sweetness or umami.
Develop
AI-assisted process design maps out different ways to make each one, works out how to produce it at cost, and takes forward the one that meets commercial specifications.
Deploy
We work through scale-up, where it stands with regulators, and whether it can be supplied reliably.
What partners get
Two ways to start.
Bring us a need and we find the ingredient. Bring us a feedstock and we find its hidden value.
A clear target.
Every search starts with a specific functionality, like sweetness without sugar or savory flavor without sodium. That keeps development focused.
Intellectual Property.
Functionalities of the next-generation ingredients are uncovered.
Sometimes the work starts from seeking a functionality. Sometimes it starts with the feedstock. 2nd Nature connects them.
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