Arborea

Arborea’s team developed a breakthrough cultivation system, the BioSolar Leaf, which harnesses natural photosynthesis in a radicle new way.

Thanks to sunlight, Arborea’s technology facilitates the growth of microscopic plants to produce healthy food ingredients, all while generating breathable oxygen and sequestrating large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2), a major contributor to climate change.

Micro plants such as blue-green algae and phytoplankton, are some of the most important organisms in the history of our planet. They are behind the original buildup of oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere while constituting the fundamental base of life’s intricate food web. They already provide food to trillions of animals.

Their cells contain thousands of highly nutritious food molecules that haven’t been processed by other organisms, maintaining high digestibility and pristine nutritional properties. Micro plants offer a vast amount of different quality functional proteins, powerful antioxidants, essential fatty acids, specialty carbohydrates, and phytonutrients.

Arborea spent the last five years researching the best way to grow organic, healthy food ingredients with the smallest environmental impact, aiming to feed the world’s present and future generations while preserving our planet.

Arborea’s breakthrough cultivation technology mimics the functioning mechanisms of a real leaf to self-maintain the ideal growth conditions homogeneously at different scales and with the smallest energy inputs. Furthermore, it uniquely sequesters CO2 from most exhaust gasses, even with very low CO2 concentration and at atmospheric pressure.

Arborea’s food ingredients and proteins are wholly vegan, NO-GMO, hormone-free and mostly carbon neutral. The unique functioning mechanisms of the BioSolar Leaf impedes contamination to produce the safest and purest ingredients.