Six upcycled food trends we’re looking out for in 2024
The upcycled food innovation continues to take a stand against food waste, and we’ve got six trends we’re looking out for in 2024:
?1.???????? Food Waste for Skincare
The Upcycled Beauty Company creates a variety of upcycled food waste active powders, active oils and water solubles for skin care. Gin TONIC comes from a by-product of gin production, Olive CRUSH from leftover olive pits and Blueberry CRUSH is made from upcycled berry seeds. Although it’s not unusual to find such ingredients in skincare, it’s all about how the raw ingredients are obtained and that’s what we should be looking out for on your next skincare haul.
2.???????? Coffee Cherry
Food production has got so used to focusing on the profitable aspects of raw materials, and that’s one aspect of the dire food waste situation the world finds itself in. The Coffee Cherry Company has caught our attention as it’s taking a whey protein stance with green coffee beans. The company has turned the byproduct? – coffee cherries – into a resource. Powdered down, Coffee Cherry is a superfood, vegan ingredient that generates extra income for green coffee farmers and reduces the coffee cherry waste polluting land and rivers.
3.???????? Dehydrated Waste Citrus Peel
Farmers monetising byproduct waste from raw materials helps reduce the food waste statistics. Peelz?? is a flavour ingredient doing just that with waste citrus peel. It is a patented dry flavour system, according to the Upcycled Food Organisation, that uses dehydrated citrus peels as a carrier for liquid flavours. Ideal for teas and as a powdered ingredient for food products, it carries natural flavours such as ginger and raspberry. For those of us fed up with artificial flavourings found on the ingredients list, this is a sustainable alternative and one to look out for in the future.
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4.???????? Upcycled Potato Prebiotic
We all know how versatile potatoes can be, but Solnul?? is taking it to the next level with an upcycled prebiotic ingredient. Taking resistant starch at the manufacturing stage, they turn it into an ingredient for a healthy gut. With claims of easy digestion, food and drink producers are adding Solnul as a vegan and allergen-free base to their prebiotic categories and credit the upcycled food waste trend perfectly.
5.???????? BioAuthentic Exosomes
Exosomes traditionally extracted from humans and animals for use in pharmaceuticals and skincare are going vegan too. Using the same extraction technology, Active Concepts develops BioAuthentic Exosomes from food waste of apples, pomegranates, grapefruit and watermelons. These botanical exosomes stabilise cosmetic formulations and have full transparency as well as the usual skincare benefits. Watch out for the term in future launches.
6.???????? Cocoa Board
Not all upcycled food waste has to be turned into another edible or cosmetic product. Mars was the first to market with the cocoa ‘Bean Board’, upcycling their waste cocoa husk to create paper-based boards used for M&M retail displays.?Adding the husks to the board recipe removes all virgin fibre paper, allows it to still go through the paper recycling stream and creates a circular solution for food waste and retail point-of-sale waste within the business. With solid life cycle assessment figures, the innovation looked at food waste through a resource recovery lens.
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