CyberColloids Ltd,Unit 4A Site 13, Carrigaline Industrial Estate, Carrigaline, County Cork, Ireland. tel: +353-21-4375773www.cybercolloids.net

Adding value to Seaweedsor Seavegetables!!

2019

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1 Eulàlia Trius, 14/07/2014

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Scope

• Intro to CyberColloids

• Our interest in seaweed

• CyberColloids’ seaweed processing activities

• Challenges & opportunities for Irish cultivators

• Examples of successful companies

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Who are CyberColloids?

• An independent, business driven R&D company

• SME - 8 staff based at the main office and laboratory in Carrigaline, Co. Cork and 2 staff based in the UK

• Offer a complete contract research & business solutions service

• Set up in 2002 to provide outsourcing of every aspect of the hydrocolloids world

• Today, business led R&D services with a broader focus on polysaccharide chemistry for food texture and nutrition

• Provide these services worldwide

• Active participant in EU funded research (SME & RTD)

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• As hydrocolloid specialists have been working with seaweed ingredients for many years – alginate, agar, carrageenan

• But – much more to seaweed than a texture story

• nutritional benefits of edible seaweeds

• bioactives from edible seaweeds

• different processing approaches

• market for seaweed derived functional foods

• application in food and drink products

• Overall aims to:

• maximise the use of the whole biomass

• multi-stream processing

• commercially relevant

Our interest in seaweed

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Our seaweed processing activities

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AlginateFeasibilities – setting

up new processing businesses

AgarValue chain creation

New processing & factory design

CarrageenanValue chain creationProcess optimisation

Business strategy

• Primarily focused on hydrocolloids extraction – high volume, global markets

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CyberColloids research - lab to pilot

TASTENatural flavour ingredients for

sodium replacement

SWAFAXPolyphenol extracts with antioxidant & anti-inflammatory

activity

HYFFILMW agars and

alginates for prebiotic activity &

digestive health

These projects received funding from the European Seventh Framework Program managed by REA – Research Executive Agency FP/2007-2013

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www.cybercolloids.net

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How to add value?

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• € 1-5/kg

• Specialist feed & horticulture products

• Higher quality food grade powders

• More processing involved

• < € 1/kg

• Dried & milled/flaked only

• Seaweed meals for feed & horticulture

• Food grade powders in bulkVOLUME

VALU

E

Base commodities

Speciality products

Added value commodities

Neutraceuticals

Specialapplications

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Dried and minimally processed

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• Sell as sea vegetables

• all about packaging and branding

• cultivation of different species (longer term)

• Sell on to other companies - food, feed, cosmetics

• everyone looking for similar volume markets

• Improved drying & grinding (micronisation)

• retention of nutritional components

• finer powders – wider application, better functionality

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How to add value?

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VOLUME

VALU

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Base commodities

Speciality products

Added value commodities

Neutraceuticals

Specialapplications

• €100’s - €1000’s

• Purified extracts for health, pharma and research.

• €5-100’s/kg

• Base alginates from China $8-10/kg

• Blended alginates from Europe €12-15/kg

• High purity/specific grade alginates for pharma < €30/kg

• Crude/bulk extracts from SE Asia (fucoidan, laminarin) $30-100/kg (low purity).

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The challenge for Irish cultivators -how to add value to low volumes

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Develop processing capability

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• Various options for producing extracts for food, health, cosmetics & biostimulants

• Multi-stream processing for value creation

• food grade vs non food grade?

• cost & regulatory implications (novel foods?)

• pure vs “rich-in” extracts?

• market/end-use dependant

• is functionality/bioactivity already known/proven?

• efficacy studies & claims approval expensive & time consuming

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What can be valorised? (% dry weight)

Species

Man

nitol

Laminaran

Fucoidan

Alginate

Cellu

lose

Phlorotann

ins

Protein

Fats

Minerals

KELPS

Alaria esculenta <14 26-39 2-3 10-42 11-12 <4 9-20 <2 14-32

Saccharina latissima 2-58 <33 2-12 10-33 <10 <3 5-18 1-3 15-45

Laminaria digitata 2-20 <18 <6 32-45 3-9 <0.2 3-12 <2 14-35

Laminaria hyperborea 2-30 1-34 2-25 10-37 8-11 5 6 <1 28

FUCOIDS

Fucus spp. 7-16 2-5 11-12 20-26 <7 <15 2-16 <5 15-30

Ascophyllum nodosum 4-11 1-10 <12 22-31 3-9 <14 5-14 2-6 17-34

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What can be valorised?

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• Typical brown seaweed biorefinery product streams:

• laminarin-, fucoidan-, mannitol- & polyphenol- rich extracts

• valuable markets if markets can be identified.

• NOTE: kelps have low polyphenol content -worth valorising?

• NOTE: seasonal & locational variability in components

• potential issues with standardisation & seasonal supply

• Economies of scale – need to balance product streams

• Alginate (+ cellulose) fraction will comprise bulk of the biomass

• essential to valorise this fraction in some way

• Minerals & proteins – potential for natural flavour ingredients & nutritional benefits

• protein extracts may need to use enzymes

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What to do with the alginate?

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• Yield and gelling properties of alginate from Saccharina not commercially interesting

• Alginate from Alaria little known

• Possibility to promote gelling functionality of alginate in situ – i.e. without need for extraction

• New functionalised seaveg fibres for use as texture ingredients

• Clean label replacements for Na alginate in food and cosmetics

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SeaRefinery project – 600g to 600kg

FUCOIDANS LAMINARIN

PROTEINS

ALGINATE

This project received funding under the first call for Transnational Research Projects within the Marine Biotechnology ERA-NET with the Marine Institute of Ireland.

Current interest from Ireland, UK, Norway, Peru & South Africa to develop similar process.

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Companies that have added value

Archangel, Russia

Seaweed biorefinery

Mannitol from kelps

Alginates, wound dressings

Cosmetics

Horti/agri products

ALGAplus, Portugal

Cultivation experts

Optimised multiple species

Customised ingredients for food & cosmetics

Strong research focus

Hebridean Seaweed Co.

Ascophyllum – dried & milled for horti/agri

Upgraded – food grade production

Ishga - organic cosmetics

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A successful seaweed biorefinery

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Thank you for your attention

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For more information about our research activities see - www.cybercolloids.net

or contact Ross@cybercolloids.net