Be Innovative 004 - How Valorizing Food into Food Staples could solve global food insecurity

Welcome to Be Innovative! In this episode, we speak with Florence Leong - Founder and Director of Kosmode Health, where we discuss the issues of food security, the challenges in achieving Singapore's food security goal of 30x30, as well as food innovations from spent barley grains in the food industry, battling diabetes and developing protein scaffolds for the biomedical industry! More about Kosmode Health: https://kosmodehealth.com/ Connect with Florence: https://www.linkedin.com/in/florenceleong/

Podcast Produced by: Budding Innovation

Hosted By: Shaurya Thapar and Gladis Chua

Youtube: @buddinginnovation

Timestamps: 00:00 - Opening Sequence 00:11 - Meet your hosts 00:28 - Meet our guest - Florence Leong 00:49 - So who is Florence and what is Kosmode Health? 01:19 - Kosmode Health in a nutshell 02:02 - The focus of today's episode 02:10 - Kosmode Health's corporate video 02:11 - What's in the name - Kosmode Health? 02:32 - A quick history lesson on Kosmode Health 03:48 - The truth about the Nutrition industry 04:47 - The Eureka Moment 05:22 - Noodles from Spent Barley grains? How? 06:01 - From Protein Fibres to creating Functional Foods 06:46 - Developing "Asian Flavoured" Drinks for the elderly 07:45 - What B2B companies can do to adopt asian flavoured products for the elderly 08:21 - The genesis of W0W noodles 09:43 - Market testing with W0W noodles 10:12 - Why aren't more people using food waste as functional ingredients? 12:50 - 30 by 30 - Shouldn't we look at Food staples instead of alt proteins? 14:57 - The current food limitations of Diabetics and how it can be opened up 15:52 - Explaining the difference between Glycemic Index (GI) and Glycemic Response (GR) 17:39 - What other foods can become Zero GR? 18:34 - How can eldery customers become more learned about GI, GR and relateed products? 20:16 - The Failing formula that is diabetic prescription 21:33 - Flour mills are the second biggest waste stream - what can we do with that? 22:50 - Potentially removing the issue of Diabetes and Food Security with Wheat Bran 23:41 - 30 by 30 - we've got to make changes in order to hit that mark! 26:08 - How much does W0W noodles cost? 26:48 - Biomedical applications through Protein Isolate extraction from Food Waste 28:47 - Current biomedical products being tested 30:25 - What's the vision for Kosmode Health? 32:04 - Identifying the biggest barrier for Food Valorization - Food Waste collection 33:13 - The challenges of processing food waste 34:19 - Closing statements and Wrapping it up!