Ep #61: ReGrained SuperGrain+ with CEO Daniel Kurzrock
This week, I’m joined by Daniel Kurzrock, cofounder and CEO of ReGrained. We’ve talked about the concept of upcycling food on the podcast before, but ReGrained is actually making a product using upcycled food.
Show Notes
This week, I’m joined by Daniel Kurzrock, cofounder and CEO of ReGrained. We’ve talked about the concept of upcycling food on the podcast before, but ReGrained is actually making a product using upcycled food. ReGrained is on a mission to solve the problem of food waste by taking spent beer grain and transforming it into a nutritious flour-like powder that can be incorporated into any carb-based product.
Daniel learned how to make beer as a freshman in college. But every time he produced a batch, he was left with huge amounts of what he thought looked like oatmeal. That’s when he realized there was massive opportunity here to change how the brewing industry deals with food waste, and his passion for upcycling food was born.
Tune in this week to discover how ReGrained and Upcycled Food Incorporated are doing something about food waste. We’re discussing the practical challenges they faced regarding processing and packaging, how they’ve overcome them, and Daniel is detailing how ReGrained is helping other companies use their product innovation as a force for good by incorporating upcycled ingredients.
- How Upcycled Foods Incorporated has become a B2B supplier of upcycled ingredients.
- The packaging and processing methods that help reduce food waste.
- Some important differences between recycling and upcycling.
- The journey ReGrained has been on and the amazing products they’ve produced.
- Why repurposing spent beer grain has never been done on this scale before.
- The process the spent grain goes through before it’s ready to be upcycled.
- ReGrained’s story of becoming a cautionary tale in the sustainable packaging space.
- What we can all do to make a difference in reducing food waste.
What You'll Learn
Links Mentioned
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- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Daniel Kurzrock: LinkedIn | Email
- ReGrained: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
- OSC Packaging Collective
- Project Drawdown
- Upcycled Foods Inc.
- ReFED
- NRDC Report: Wasted – How America is Losing up to 40% of its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill
- Ep #50: Upcycling Your Food Waste with Marina Duchesneau from the Upcycled Food Association
- Ep #53: Women are the Key to Solving Climate Change with Laura Dickson
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