🌱 Botanicals

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Forever Harvest raised $715k to advance plant cell culture ingredients for food and flavour

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• Forever Harvest, a New Zealand startup, raised NZ$1.2M ($715k) to scale pilot production of its plant cell-culture fruit and nut ingredients for food, beverage and flavour applications.
• It also plans to expand its portfolio and commercial partnerships.

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🧪 Encapsulation

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Evanium raised €2.2M to scale dual-encapsulation technology for bioavailability-enhanced ingredients

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• Evanium, a German startup, raised €2.2M to scale its dual-encapsulation technology for natural bioactive ingredients, advance clinical validation and accelerate partnerships.
• Its two-layer encapsulation system (cyclodextrin core + outer lipid/starch shell) is said to improve solubility, absorption, taste and overall bioavailability, targeting nutraceutical, food and pharmaceutical applications.

NutraIngredients