Israeli start-up scales up sugar-reduction technology for orange juices
Better Juice, Ltd, the first food-tech start-up to develop technology to reduce all types of sugars in orange juice, is now scaling up its patent-pending technology with a plan to go full scale with industrial implementation within a year. The Israeli start-up is installing a semi-industrial pilot plant that will be available for future testing at global partners’ plants. It features the company’s sugar reduction process in a continuous flow technology that ensures a consistent, safe, and effective enzymatic process.
Better Juice developed an enzymatic technology that uses all-natural ingredients to convert fructose, glucose, and sucrose into prebiotic dietary fibers and other non-digestible molecules. The new pilot plant system marks a significant milestone in the start-up’s commercial scale-up timeline. It can to reduce up to 80 percent of simple sugar in orange juice at a rate of up to 50 liters/hour.
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