Sugarcane / bagasse

In July 2018, the FDA provided guidance to the food industry on those plant materials which qualify as dietary fiber sources. And while the guidance did not specifically mention sugarcane bagasse, its cell wall composition resulting from sugar extraction, including lignocelluloses and more specifically its polymeric backbone, offers an abundant source of such pre-qualified dietary fibers. To this end, Kontinuum R&D offers green technologies to harvest these polymers including through enzymatic hydrolyses, fractionation, and isolation of certain such dietary fibers. These isolated polymers can be marketed in the form of value-added compounds such as fibrillated insoluble sugarcane fibers (aka mix plant cell wall fibers) together with soluble fibers and including xylooligosaccharides (liquid or crystals) and arabinoxylans (liquid).

In addition to being a source of dietary fibers, sugarcane bagasse can be modified through enzymatic or physical technologies to become an excellent and cost-effective plastic reinforcement suitable for composite-development.

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