Technology · Fooditive Engine
One engine. Many ingredients.
Sugars and food side streams go in. Fermentation or enzymes turn them into ingredients, made in your own plant or at a CDMO near you.
What is the Fooditive Engine?
The Fooditive Engine™ is our technology platform. It combines precision fermentation, enzymatic bioconversion and upcycling in one system, from code to creation.
You license the layers you need and produce in your existing plant.
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From side stream to ingredient
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In
Sugars and side streams
Fruit sugars such as fructose, and food side streams such as potato peels, carrots, avocado seeds and banana peels.
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Engine
Fermentation or enzymes
Our own strains ferment, our enzymes convert, and our upcycling processes recover what is valuable.
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Out
Ingredients
A sweetener, a dairy protein, bee-free honey and next-gen ingredients. Each is at its own stage, shown below.
Pillar 1 of 3
Precision fermentation
We give microorganisms precise instructions, so each one makes one ingredient.
Fed with simple plant-based nutrients, our strains make complex ingredients such as dairy proteins.
What it makes
- Non-animal casein. Precision-engineered E. coli strains. Licensing now.
- Bee-free honey. Enzymes made by an E. coli strain. Project-based.
Pillar 2 of 3
Enzymatic bioconversion
Enzymes are nature’s own catalysts. We use them to turn one natural substance into another, precisely and without harsh chemicals.
Fooditive Sweetener® Keto-Fructose (5-keto-D-fructose, 5-KDF) comes from fructose by two routes: our own non-GMO strain of Gluconobacter oxydans, or our FAOX-C enzyme.
What it makes
- 5-KDF sweetener, strain route. Our non-GMO Gluconobacter oxydans strain. Licensing now.
- FAOX-C enzyme route. Converts fructose inside the food. Project-based.
- Emulsifier. Patatin from potato peels. Project-based.
Pillar 3 of 3
Upcycling and circular design
We see side streams as raw materials.
We find valuable compounds in agricultural and food side streams and turn them into functional ingredients.
What it makes
- Fat replacer. From avocado seeds.
- Preservative. Beta-carotene from carrots, by fermentation.
- Thickener. From banana peels.
- Emulsifier. Potato peel protein, shared with bioconversion.
Built for the plants you already run.
We license our process into existing dairy, juice and food plants, or manage production at a CDMO near you. No new factory needed.
Good to know
What equipment do I need?
The plants and lines you already run. We license our process into them, and your team produces under licence with our process package and support.
Can I license one technology only?
Yes. You get access to the layers you need: one ingredient, one route, or several.
Which ingredients can I license today?
All of them: the 5-KDF sweetener, non-animal casein, bee-free honey, the FAOX-C enzyme and the next-gen ingredients. Non-animal casein: GRAS notices submitted to FDA in February 2026.
Which side streams can feed the Engine?
Fruit sugars and food side streams such as potato peels, carrots, avocado seeds and banana peels. Tell us what your plant has.
Ready to build what’s next?
Whether you are exploring a new ingredient or scaling a proven one, we support your next step: licensing, trials and partnership.