Be Innovative, a podcast by Budding Innovation

Be Innovative 006 - Chopsticks and Sustainability - ChopValue Singapore

Justin Lee, GM of Chop Value Singapore, joins the podcast to shed light on the topic of upcycling chopsticks into furniture, and the potential of this material for many more projects!With the Budding Innovation team, we dive deep into the subject matter of sustainability, green washing, the challenges of sustainability and the importance of an integrated, hyperlocal operation to keep a green operation, green.This and more, on #BeInnovative #podcast by #BuddingInnovation About Chop Value: To learn more about Chop Value's mission and works, visit http://www.chopvalue.com.sg About Budding Innovation: Visit http://www.buddinginnovation.com to find out more about Strategic Foresight, Market Expansion in Asia and more business growth opportunities. 00:11 Welcome to Be Innovative! 00:28 Meet our guest - Justin Lee 00:44 What led to a $1 million investment into sustainability 01:52 Justin's background 02:01 Getting introduced to ChopValue through an online video 03:44 An overview of today's podcast 04:04 Why upcycle chopsticks? 06:20 Describe the process from collections to woodworking; Step 1: Collections 09:52 Step 2: What happens in the Microfactory 10:39 Step 3: Water-based Resin and Heat Treatment 12:06 You can upcycle stained chopsticks? 13:27 What other materials can be upcycled from an urban harvest? 14:41 How do you identify and tackle Greenwashing? 15:49 Greenwashing 101 16:46 What people get and don't get about carbon 17:09 Many people don't get the hyperlocal concept 17:54 ChopValue SG's expansion plans 18:42 Is there a market for waste import/export for Chopsticks? 20:18 What's your take on the industry in 5 years time? 23:15 Exploring more timber alternatives with ChopValue 24:20 Comparing Price Points and Target Audiences 27:02 Here's why Industry players are more collaborative than competitive 27:23 ChopValue SG's largest project to date 28:12 The Closing Question: How can this become Mainstream?

Be Innovative 005 - Dominique Kull, CEO, SG Protein

CEO of SGProtein, Dominique Kull, joins the #BeInnovative podcast to tell us all about Plant-based manufacturing and the technologies that are making waves in the industry! From debunking the myth of processed foods, being a "Plant-based butcher" and how the industry can collaborate to achieve Singapore's 30 by 30 plan, this episode was truly an insightful one! Podcast is also available on other platforms: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6wtDivdmShGdC0K434ZZG3 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/be-innovative-a-podcast-by-budding-innovation/id1710932944 Connect with Dominique on LinkedIn: dominique-kull Website: https://www.eatsgprotein.com/ If you'd like to find out more about what we do at Budding Innovation, visit: https://www.budinno.com/ If you'd like to join the podcast, or would like to get in touch with us, drop us a note at podcast@budinno.com Timestamps 00:00 - Opening Sequence 00:10 - Welcome to Be Innovative! 00:27 - Meet today's guest - Dominique Kull 00:41 - Why'd did you start a business in the thick of COVID? 01:47 - Topics that we'll be grilling Dom about today 02:12 - Why did you specifically choose to manufacture Plant-Based Proteins? 04:19 - Explaining the hype curve of Plant-based proteins and how it's becoming a reality 05:55 - What's holding people back from taking more Plant-based foods? 08:04 - Flavour, Texture and Technology will change minds about Plant-based 08:31 - An introduction to High Moisture Extrusion technology 08:58 - Benefits of HME 10:12 - Formats made available using High Moisture Extrusion 12:12 - What does the production line look like at SGProtein? 13:53 - What offerings are made available to food manufacturers with HME? 15:40 - What variables affect price for animal based meats vs Plant based meats? 19:24 - what is needed to scale and achieve the 30x30 goal? 20:54 - The landscape of the Plant-based industry is collaborative, not competitive 22:29 - With a change in diet, comes opportunity for manufacturers 24:01 - If processed food is unhealthy, doesn't that make Plant-based meat unhealthy? 27:19 - How can the prices of Plant-based meats be justifed? 30:09 - Perhaps theres's a better way to introduce Plant-based meats to consumers 32:54 - What's a typical sales cycle like in the world of Plant-based manufacturing? 33:26 - What makes High Moisture Extrusion technology the preferred choice for manufacturing? 34:48 - What's the next area of innovation for HME? 37:40 - What should we expect from SGProtein in 5 years time? 39:39 - Could there be a product to make your own plant-based meats at home? 40:43 - Closing Remarks #Deeptech #Innovation #podcast #Asia #Singapore #beinnovative #futurefood #foodtrends #nutrition #plantbased #plantbasedmeat #foodmanufacturing

BI03 - Changing the Food industry with AI | AI Palette

On this episode of "Be Innovative" - Som, founder of AI Palette, share more about AI as a powerful tool for the Food Industry - from trend discovery, product development and more. if you'd like to learn more about AI palette, visit: https://www.aipalette.com/ And if you'd like to learn how to we're getting information from the ground or would like to partner up for your next wave of innovations, connect with us: www.budinno.com Chapters: Here's what we've discussed: 00:00 - Opening Sequence 00:11 - Welcome to Be Innovative! 00:56 - Meet Som - founder of AI Palette 02:12 - How is AI helping companies gain Business and Marketing intellgence? 04:03 - So what can companies do, once a trend is discovered? 04:47 - Just look at how a single flavour can expand into so many products! 05:21 - A recent trend of "Hot Honey" and the trend of spices in beverages 06:11 - The rise of K-trends 07:15 - Exploring the "Black Box" of AI Palette 08:33 - How large is your data set and how much detail can one get from AI Palette? 09:11 - Using Data to predict trends and trajectory 09:44 - How has AI compressed project discovery timelines? 10:29 - Revealing AI Palette's data sources 11:25 - How did AI Palette cultivate such a large set of data points? 14:01 - Reflecting on the inital challenges of the startup 15:39 - Differentiating ChatGPT's LLL model vs AI Palette 17:37 - Clearing up Hallucinations within FoodGPT 18:15 - With FoodGPT, what other applications of "GPT" could there be in the future? 19:29 - Impacting the Food Industry ecosystem with AI 21:55 - Speculation of future trends 22:32 - How does AI Palette position itself in areas of Sustainability? 24:09 - Insight on the mental wellness trend 24:58 - What's the vision for AI Palette in the next 5 years? 25:26 - Discussing the barriers that AI Palette is facing 27:21 - Final trend tidbit: Nutriceuticals 28:10 - Closing Remarks

Be Innovative 004 - How Valorizing Food into Food Staples could solve global food insecurity

Welcome to Be Innovative! In this episode, we speak with Florence Leong - Founder and Director of Kosmode Health, where we discuss the issues of food security, the challenges in achieving Singapore's food security goal of 30x30, as well as food innovations from spent barley grains in the food industry, battling diabetes and developing protein scaffolds for the biomedical industry! More about Kosmode Health: https://kosmodehealth.com/ Connect with Florence: https://www.linkedin.com/in/florenceleong/ Podcast Produced by: Budding Innovation Hosted By: Shaurya Thapar and Gladis Chua Youtube: @buddinginnovation Timestamps: 00:00 - Opening Sequence 00:11 - Meet your hosts 00:28 - Meet our guest - Florence Leong 00:49 - So who is Florence and what is Kosmode Health? 01:19 - Kosmode Health in a nutshell 02:02 - The focus of today's episode 02:10 - Kosmode Health's corporate video 02:11 - What's in the name - Kosmode Health? 02:32 - A quick history lesson on Kosmode Health 03:48 - The truth about the Nutrition industry 04:47 - The Eureka Moment 05:22 - Noodles from Spent Barley grains? How? 06:01 - From Protein Fibres to creating Functional Foods 06:46 - Developing "Asian Flavoured" Drinks for the elderly 07:45 - What B2B companies can do to adopt asian flavoured products for the elderly 08:21 - The genesis of W0W noodles 09:43 - Market testing with W0W noodles 10:12 - Why aren't more people using food waste as functional ingredients? 12:50 - 30 by 30 - Shouldn't we look at Food staples instead of alt proteins? 14:57 - The current food limitations of Diabetics and how it can be opened up 15:52 - Explaining the difference between Glycemic Index (GI) and Glycemic Response (GR) 17:39 - What other foods can become Zero GR? 18:34 - How can eldery customers become more learned about GI, GR and relateed products? 20:16 - The Failing formula that is diabetic prescription 21:33 - Flour mills are the second biggest waste stream - what can we do with that? 22:50 - Potentially removing the issue of Diabetes and Food Security with Wheat Bran 23:41 - 30 by 30 - we've got to make changes in order to hit that mark! 26:08 - How much does W0W noodles cost? 26:48 - Biomedical applications through Protein Isolate extraction from Food Waste 28:47 - Current biomedical products being tested 30:25 - What's the vision for Kosmode Health? 32:04 - Identifying the biggest barrier for Food Valorization - Food Waste collection 33:13 - The challenges of processing food waste 34:19 - Closing statements and Wrapping it up!

Be Innovative 002 - Commerce and Circularity of the Insect Farming Industry | Leo Wein, Protenga

In this episode of "Be Innovative", we speak with Leo Wein - Founder and CEO of Protenga.Protenga makes Insects Work For You. They develop data-driven Insect Technology that enables a circular, regenerative, economy all along the food supply chain and produces best-in-class, sustainable Insect Products for pet food, animal feed and plants.Leo sits down with Budding Innovation to share more about how insect farming covers a much broader spectrum in the topics of sustainability, protein and circularity. Not to mention, the commercial opportunities for pet and human grade food, as well as plants.Watch / Listen to the episode and discover the opportunities in the food and agri industries with Insect Farming potential. 00:00 - Start 00:11 - Welcome to Be Innovative! 00:30 - Meet today's guest - Leo Wein, Protenga 00:48 - A quick self-introduction 01:28 - Moving from software to something more purposeful... 03:21 - What does Protenga mean? 03:48 - What to expect in this episode 04:35 - What goes on in a BSF Farm? 05:32 - The short lifecycle of the BSF 05:49 - Cultivating BSF Larvae in bioreactors 06:33 - Quick Quiz: What is FRASS? 07:03 - understanding the multiple uses of BSFL byproducts 08:11 - What's make your farm, a "Smart Farm"? 11:31 - What's the advantage of cultivating BSF Larvae as a source of nutrition and managing the yield? 14:20 - Processing of BSF Larvae and byproducts 15:41 - How to manage temp sensitive environments for yield 17:52 - What was the first iteration of the BSF Larvae Farm? 18:54 - He didn't say the "G" word, did he? 19:46 - Why cultivate only BSF? Aren't there other options as well? 23:25 - Is there a greater awareness around insect farming for food? 25:56 - Drawing a great lesson from "The Good Life" 26:30 - In the world of food, there is no free lunch 27:05 - Addressing the realities of narrowing options of food 28:03 - The opportunities dervied from insect proteins and farming 30:30 - How to insect farming wave is picking up momentum 34:11 - If Smart Farms grow, does that also increase it's energy consumption and footprint? 36:53 - Leo's opinion on the future of insect farming 39:19 - Can BSF Larvae be fit for human consumption? 41:39 - Will makers make, and consumers consume? 44:04 - Analyzing the price of pork 47:04 - The Keys to Driving Adoption of insect protein 50:09 - Who's responsible to drive adoption? 51:35 - Shaurya's commitment to insect protein 51:49 - Where is food waste for feedstock sourced? 54:59 - It's not about the source of waste - it's collection that's the problem. 55:33 - Closing comments#BeInnovative #B2Bpodcast #Deeptech #Innovation #Insects #Farming #futurefood #Asia #Protenga #BSF #blacksoldierfly