What is “Upcycled” food? Food residue can now be converted into components

Lost food is a big problem. More than a billion tons were thrown in 2022 by families, retailers and food services companies, according to the numbers they published United Nations Environment Program In 2024, it is also costly: The World Bank estimates That cost or lost food cost $ 1.2 trillion in 2020.

It is an issue that the entrepreneur, Chloe Stewart, is aware of him as a young young woman who travels to different parts of the world. She said that seeing paintings accumulated in places like Beijing and Boston and a feeling that “there is no way to finish someone” angered them.

“This is actually a criminal, the fact that we are not commissioned to find a better use of food that ends in the landfill,” she said in a video call with CNBC.

Stewart Food, NIBS, etc., as a blog in which she wrote about the ingredients of “misunderstanding” such as cocoa boats – small pieces of fermented cocoa pills that are used to make chocolate – as well as explore how to cook with parts of fruits and vegetables that are usually disposed of, such as outward seeds. Stewart calls these “Upcycled”, instead of waste, because of its potential as ingredients themselves.

In 2018, Stewart began making Granola, delicious crackers and banana desires in her kitchen, to sell them in the high -end town market in London. The newly covered juice position was soon, and began making recipes from the remaining pulp – the seeds and the skin to be disposed of.

“The pulp of the juice is only” a waste “because it comes out of the wrong end of a juice, but in reality it is the place where all good things are located, and it is full of fiber.” As her work grows, she tried different fruits, settled on the pulp of apples that she was from the apple juice maker in Kent Province. It has become the main element of NIIBS, etc. in granola and make up 25 % of crackers, Stewart is now selling NIBS, etc.

Stewart said that other types of so -called food waste can last in this way, as Stewart said, NIBS, etc. develops a snack similar to potatoes made of potatoes as well as grains spent from the fermentation process, a component that may become animal feed. It also works on digestive biscuits-a sweet, sweet, flour-based meal-using a turnip seed, which is a secondary result of the production of turnip. Stewart said that both of these new products have the ability to make from 40 % to 50 % of the transferred ingredients.

The food industry can becomeNature is positive“According to Ellen Mac Arthur, a charity focuses on The circular economy. The Charitable Society said that it could be renewed from natural resources instead of exhausting them, for example, using crops that had been lost.

Some NIBS products, etc. were among the winners of the Foundation’s “re -design” challenge. Among the other winners was a “Hodmedod” pasta made of “rising” peas, a crop that might be carried out again in the soil if the harvest time was missed, and the elites, a beer fermented by excess bread.

Beth Mander, who supervised the “Challenge of the Great Food Restore”, which announced the winners in February, said the broader goal of the initiative is to influence companies to produce food in a more renewed way. “Our great hope is that every time … you go to a supermarket and choose products from the shelf, you can make sure that nature is the best result of your options,” Mander told CNBC via the video call.

This cultivation may mean less intense, develop a variety of crops or add components to products that reduce their environmental impact, according to Ellen Macarthur Foundation. One of these ingredients is seameat, a mixture of seaweed that can be added to the burger to provide a delicious taste, while reducing the percentage of meat in burger by 25 %.

Seaweed does not provide “Ocean flavor”, according to Hana Weise, Director of Marketing and Trade Communications at Seaweed, making the Seameat mix. Instead, wesse said, “It adds juice and … (a) a nice fabric, because it contains or can absorb a lot of water, and also adds UMAMI flavor.” Sea herbs contain protein – Up to 32 % of its dry weight – And It grows quickly Wees said in a video call with CNBC.

“Our goal is to make food supply chains more sustainable and more green through seaweed,” she said.

While Seameat is currently being developed, the concentration of the noint herbal company, a Belgian crochet made of seaweed instead of traditional shrimp. Noint is sold in Bioplanet stores in Belgium, the goal is to expand in other chains and more European countries this year.

Several products are sold in the Big Food Redesign Challenge in the UK stores in the UK, which is part of the grocery efforts to address the environmental depletion caused by food production, according to the company’s environmental manager, Ben Thomas.

“The diet is not a wonderful way. It is a major contributor to environmental degradation, climate change and loss of biological diversity … mainly, we are part of the issue, so we must be part of the solution,” Thomas told CNBC by video call. (The “Agriculture for Nature” initiative in Waitrose aims to help 2000 farms shift to renewal practices, for example.)

One of the cases is to communicate the meaning of “renewal” to shoppers. While food is organically produced by consumers in the UK, terms such as “Upcycled” are less good. Products are marketed in the challenge of redesigning Eileen Mac Arthur using the phrase “nature in mind”, which appears on the store’s positions and online, but Thomas said that there is a way to go before people exactly understand what this means.

Small production operations can mean that the top -tip products at the upper end, with a 360 gram package of NIBS, etc., Rye Rye and Hazlnut & Cacao are inserted on the company’s website for 6.99 pounds ($ 9.08). But the entrepreneur in the food, Stewart hopes that the ingredients that last. “There is nothing wrong with the first days for … Upcycled concept and products to sit a little more. But it is clear that the goal is to compete with the comprehensive market products for group adoption. And do so, we must be able to benefit from savings of size,” CNBC told CNBC.