Recent patents demonstrate researchers are continuing to innovate ways to valorise or ‘upcycle’ by-products into ingredients for the food and beauty industries.
Neha Srivastava, Senior Patent Analyst – Food & Drink and Beauty & Personal Care
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- What you need to know
- Why consider upcycled foods and ingredients?
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WHAT CONSUMERS WANT AND WHY
- Consumers are keen to adopt sustainable practices, but affordability is an issue
- Consumers are interested in reducing waste and favour upcycling initiatives
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PRODUCT INNOVATION TRENDS
- Upcycled ingredient claims have room to grow
- Graph 1: food, drink, vitamin & dietary supplement launches with selected ethical & environmental claims, 2019-23
- Launches that utilise agri-food industry by-products hold potential to help mitigate environmental pollution
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THE PATENT LANDSCAPE
- Valorise waste for food and health ingredients
- Recent launches use upcycled agri-food industry waste streams
- Producers are investigating methods to derive health ingredients from waste streams
- Waste from the production of soy foods like tofu hold potential as a source of upcycled fibre
- Explore methods for the valorisation of protein from food and fishery industry by-products
- Leverage upcycled materials to create active skincare ingredients
- Brands are using upcycled agri-food waste ingredients in skincare products
- Utilise by-products from fruit processing to enhance skin health
- Transform fish industry waste into valuable bioactives
- Explore brewery by-products as potential skincare actives
- Skincare launches use ingredients from brewery by-products
- Innovators are transforming waste into valuable resources for the beauty sector
- Convert waste into soil conditioners
- Unlock the potential of agri-food waste to improve crop yields
- Recent patents cover techniques to utilise waste materials that increase soil organic matter
- Improve crop yield using agri-food waste streams
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Key takeaways
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APPENDIX
- Research methodology
- Key patent examples for use of agri-food waste to produce upcycled ingredients and products
- Shape your future with Mintel bespoke patent analysis
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