The plant-based preservative “NaturFORT RSGT” was developed by the global food technology company “Kemin” as an alternative to the chemical ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA for short). This is the company’s response to customers’ growing awareness of food ingredients.
Live Green Group and Sigma’s FoodForms Collaborate to Develop Plant-Based Food Additives
Plant-based foodtech startup Live Green Group is to partner with FoodForms, an internal startup by multinational food company Sigma. FoodForms was created to offer alternative food recipe solutions for third parties. Through the new collaboration, the two startups will develop replacements for common food additives. This will involve using Live Green’s AI/ML recommendation engine, Charaka™, which has a database comprising 15,000 plants and over 500,000 data points. Using this data, the search engine recommends plant-based ingredients to replace food additives. FoodForms will contribute consumer knowledge, food R&D expertise, and scaling capabilities. “This partnership demonstrates the potential of our technology to be the ‘Intel Inside’ of the food industry and be a key enabler in helping accelerate the industry’s transition to health and sustainability,” said The …