Total Crop Utilization™ Platform

Total Crop Utilization™ (TCU™), our food engineering, food science and ingredient technology and expertise platform, maximizes the production of human food from the same crop resource.

We increase the sustainability and resilience of our global food system.

Who benefits: Farmers, partners, processors, food scientists and the planet!

We successfully transformed brewers’ saved grain into high value and nutritious barley protein, now being scaled by our partner.

We are working with sunflower seed, traditionally processed solely for its oil. With over 800,000 mt grown in North America annually, this results in over 180 million lbs of protein and other nutrients going to animal feed.

Sunflower has the scale, nutritional profile, and label friendly credentials to make a real difference. It’s also non-GMO, gluten free, and allergen neutral.

We extract the proteins and micro-nutrients into functional and nutritional ingredients that can benefit and feed all of us!

What is Total Crop Utilization?

Apparo’s TCU™ platform maximizes the nutritional outputs from the same starting material.

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