Turning Wheat Straw Into A Value-Added Human Food Ingredient | Damian Mason
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Comet Bio is a technology-enabled food ingredient company that, after eight years, is finally ready to churn out food ingredients. The company extracts fiber — arabinoxylan to be specific — from wheat straw and turns it into an ingredient for food companies to use in food for human consumption. This is a win-win for everyone involved: New demand for an Ag by-product (straw) is always good, creating a product that adds up to 100 times value is even better. Comet’s CEO, Rich Troyer explains the process, the product, and the potential. The company’s first processing facility is in Denmark, with plans to build and open a facility in North American wheat country in the future.
Sponsored by:
Pattern Ag https://www.pattern.ag/
AGvisorPRO https://getagvisorpro.com/
Truterra https://www.truterraag.com/
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