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The partnership marks the first step of a multi-pronged collaboration to make nutrition more accessible while reducing costs and creating lasting stakeholder value
Treasure8, an ingredient and food transformation company, and Suja Life, a Paine Schwartz Partners portfolio company and leading functional wellness platform, announced a strategic partnership to harness Treasure8’s exclusively patented USDA SAUNA™ technology to transform Suja Life’s high-quality, organic sidestreams into a premium, upcycled powders— maximising nutrition and flavour while slashing production time, cost, energy use, and CO2 emissions.
The partnership will create a rippling impact across the food system; the two companies will explore opportunities over the next five years to generate even more value and efficiencies through vertical technology integrations, helping Suja Life’s grower partners introduce more regenerative-style practices and product portfolio enhancements. This major milestone stands to yield immediate benefits as more than 40% of the global food supply chain is lost each year due to infield and processing waste and other inefficiencies.
Treasure8 brings advanced approaches and know-how to leading food makers, growers, and suppliers. The company’s suite of proprietary and advanced food processing technologies quickly removes water in highly nutritious, often wasted whole food inputs reducing processing time and energy use while maximizing flavor and nutrition as part of its validated LOG5 kill step. The company is scaling with strategic partners and expanding additional business agreements into other valuable sidestreams and sources of supply to accelerate its mission to Deploy Nutrition for Humanity.