Around thirty percent of all food produced is ‘lost’ without ever getting into the human food chain. Fortunately, food loss conversion into foods is an increasing driving force for new product and ingredient development. There are 60-70% of apples (> 180,000 tonnes) that don’t meet supermarket specifications and are poorly defined as “secondary” or even “third-grade”, while 25-35% of apple after juicing is waste as pomace (>25,000 tonnes). However, the apple pomace from low or high grade apples is an edible part of the fruits and contains valuable nutritious components, just like the apples themselves. Apple pomace contains polyphenols, dietary fibres, protein and essential nutrients, which now normally goes to animal feed or compost.
There is a market gap for retrieving the lost nutrients of apple and creating value from apple pomace, which can produce more high-value apple products. The nutritional components in apple pomace degrades very rapidly therefore it is a huge challenge to stabilise and retain the bioactives and nutritional components while processing this material into stable food ingredients.
We have developed a process for stabilising the nutritional components in apple pomace so as to deliver an industry revolution in multiple apple pomace based food ingredients products that are highly nutritious and rich in bioactives and dietary fibre.
We plan on rolling out a versatile apple products range to Australian and global consumers. We invite food and beverage manufacturers, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to discuss Apple Pomace opportunities further.,Around thirty percent of all food produced is ‘lost’ without ever getting into the human food chain. Fortunately, food loss conversion into foods is an increasing driving force for new product and ingredient development. There are 60-70% of apples (> 180,000 tonnes) that don’t meet supermarket specifications and are poorly defined as “secondary” or even “third-grade”, while 25-35% of apple after juicing is waste as pomace (>25,000 tonnes). However, the apple pomace from low or high grade apples is an edible part of the fruits and contains valuable nutritious components, just like the apples themselves. Apple pomace contains polyphenols, dietary fibres, protein and essential nutrients, which now normally goes to animal feed or compost.
There is a market gap for retrieving the lost nutrients of apple and creating value from apple pomace, which can produce more high-value apple products. The nutritional components in apple pomace degrades very rapidly therefore it is a huge challenge to stabilise and retain the bioactives and nutritional components while processing this material into stable food ingredients.
We have developed a process for stabilising the nutritional components in apple pomace so as to deliver an industry revolution in multiple apple pomace based food ingredients products that are highly nutritious and rich in bioactives and dietary fibre.
We plan on rolling out a versatile apple products range to Australian and global consumers. We invite food and beverage manufacturers, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to discuss Apple Pomace opportunities further.