GroundUp Eco-Ventures of Okotoks, Alta., recently won a gold award in the 14th edition of SIAL’s Innovation competition.
SIAL Innovation is an international competition that rewards the best food and non-food innovations.
Open to all exhibitors, it rewards the winners according to four criteria: packaging, manufacturing process, merchandising and recipe.
GroundUp Eco-Ventures was selected out of more than 40 applications. Award organizers called it “a new example of the circular economy made very accessible by turning discarded ingredients into practical, nutritious and gourmet products.”
The company produces barley saved-grain flour, gluten-free coffee flour, protein brownie mix, high-protein pancake mix and coffee oil, which are now available online and in local stores in Okotoks, Calgary, Edmonton, High River and Lethbridge.
