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5-Apr-2023
In part two of our roundup of the Future Food-Tech summit in San Francisco, we highlight startups spanning a range of fields from molecular farming to upcycled prebiotic fibers from leftover parts of crops.
Comet gears up to open dedicated plant for production of prebiotic fiber arabinoxylan from wheat straw
Comet—a startup developing functional fibers and sweeteners from upcycled ingredients—is opening a manufacturing facility in Kalundborg, Denmark with RE Energy on April 28 where it will deploy patented water-based extraction technology allowing it to extract the prebiotic fiber arabinoxylan from wheat straw.
A fiber found in the cell walls of several plants, arabinoxylan has a range of benefits from prebiotic effects to blood glucose control and immune health support.
But no one has found a cost-effective way to isolate and produce it on an industrial scale… until now, says Comet, which claims it has distinct advantages in the prebiotic space given its high-tolerability and high-potency: “We’re seeing prebiotic effects with only 3g a day, so you can have very low inclusion rates.”
