Turn Your Waste Into Your Next Ingredient
BIOVIT recovers natural vitamins and minerals lost during food processing and reintegrates them as clean-label ingredients - clinically proven, organic and natural, and backed by two live research programmes with Swansea University.
Key findings from our groundbreaking research
Working with Swansea University, we're identifying exactly how much nutritional value is lost during food processing - and proving it can be recovered. Two live circularity research projects are already turning waste streams like apple pomace and seaweed into clean-label, plant-derived ingredients.
of Vitamins and minerals can typically be lost during food processing
R&D funding from Innovate UK and the Welsh Government
Live circularity research projects with Swansea University
Two live circularity research projects with Swansea University
BIOVIT currently runs two live circularity research projects, both delivered with Swansea University's Natural Products BioHUB, but funded separately and targeting different feedstocks and nutrients.
Project 1: Circular Vitamin C
This project recovers natural Vitamin C from apple pomace — the dry waste left over after apple juice and cider production. Pomace is nutrient-rich and available in large quantities in South West Wales, where it's usually sent to landfill, emitting significant volumes of greenhouse gases.
Rather than relying on synthetic, petrochemical-derived Vitamin C, the project produces a circular, naturally derived ingredient ready to be reintegrated into food and drink. Extraction development is led by the Swansea University team.
Building a natural vitamin industry in Wales
Most of BIOVIT's ingredients are currently manufactured from tropically grown plants. This project is an important step towards sustainable, domestic production of natural vitamin alternatives - building a range of natural vitamin extracts produced wholly within Wales, and supporting BIOVIT's transition to carbon-neutral, circular manufacture.
The project also includes exploration of the possibility of giving apple juice producers a circular manufacturing opportunity of their own — fortifying their juices with vitamins extracted from their own waste.
Funded by Innovate UK, delivered with Swansea University
Funded by Innovate UK, under the Launchpad: Net Zero Industry, South West Wales programme.
Academic lead: Professor Chedly Tizaoui, Co-Principal Investigator (Chemical Engineering; Water and Resources Recovery Lab), leading optimisation and validation of the extraction technology, with Dr Stephen Mandale as academic co-investigator.
The project was named Winner of the IFE Ingredients Awards 2026, taking both the Enabling Technologies for Ingredients award and the overall Innovation of the Year prize.
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