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Our Mission
We promote true environmental and corporate sustainability by upcycling food and agricultural waste.
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We promote true environmental and corporate sustainability by upcycling food and agricultural waste.
Learn about how we’ve turned the bitter, antinutrient coating of Quinoa into a functional byproduct.
Have you considered auditing the volume, composition, and associated valuation of your waste?
We have on-site bench-top and pilot plant process-development capabilities and have established cooperation pilot plant access-agreements with specific universities, including Oregon State University, Kansas State University, and Texas A&M University, associations with analytical, microbiological and biotechnological laboratories including BIOGEN Laboratory Developments, LLC, WRSSFNI-Megazyme Food & Nutrition to ensure reliable and scalable commercial systems. In this manner, we assure consistent, reproducible results focusing on product functionality and the production of market-test quantities before proceeding with capital investments.
To render these large quantities of by-products useful, Kontinuum R&D has developed technologies for yeast debittering, inactivation and controlled autolysis. Yeast autolyzates offer an excellent source of nucleic acids, minerals, carbohydrates and soluble dietary fibers, beta-glucans in particular. These developments have been custom-designed for savory flavor-enhancement and nutritional yeast markets. Recognizing the composition of spent grains, we have developed a wide range of customized malted grain- fibers able to contribute natural sweetness, calorie reduction and fiber enrichment to bakery products, snacks, protein bars, and RTE cereals.
Maximize your value
Have you considered auditing the volume & most importantly the composition and associated valuation of your waste? Could this be the answer to protecting your primary-product market? KONTINUUM R&D offers a customized Phased-Step Project Approach (PSPA) in global consulting services seeking to identify and assess the recovery-value of industrial food and agricultural waste. All seeking to promote upcycling as a practical and economically-attractive initiative for environmental sustainability together with corporate responsibility awareness.
Kontinuum R&D is an upcycling initiative recognizing the economic dependency of food manufacturers by focusing and limiting their profitability solely in maximizing primary product yields (typically the basis in forecasting Profit & Loss statements) while undervaluing their by-product contribution. This well-hidden economic impact may be the “dingy” needed to achieve overall sustainability while providing market-protection via primary-product price adjustments through proper by-product credit valuation.