Nowadays, 785M people lack access to safe and clean water and 820M people went undernourished in 2018. This issue will become more evident as the population is expected to grow 3Bn by 2050. Some believe the solution lies in producing more food, however this means that the overall food production will need to increase from 25-70%. Paradoxically, data also shows that food production is already sufficient to feed 10Bn people; however, resources are not distributed properly, with about 1/3 – amounting to 1.3Bn tonnes/year – being lost or ending up as waste. Food loss and waste has indeed become an issue of great public concern. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development reflects the increased global awareness of the problem. But there are many “hidden treasures” in the food system that we have yet to identify and upcycle! There are a waste amount of abundant resources that has yet to be discovered – resources that have had their first use, but are discharged without further thought! One of these streams of industrial food by-products discharged is brewers spent grains. Brewers spent grain is the most abundant by-product from beer production, and equals 3% of the total global food waste, adding up to 40M tonnes/year. Brewers spent grains are 80% moisture, and highly nutritious. By reintroducing brewers spent grains into our global food chain we can cover 10% of global shortage of 214 trillion calories per year by 2027. Circular Food Technology has developed a technology and applications so that brewers spent grains can be reintroduced into our daily diet in the form of everyday superfood. We thereby up-cycle food waste from the industry and create more food from existing resources. With the aim of establishing circular food economies and hereby limit hunger, malnutrition and lack of clean water.

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