EverGrain Ingredients (Accelerator)

Company Description: EverGrain turns spent barley into nutritious and functional ingredients for use throughout the food and beverage industry. EverGrain gets its raw materials from AB InBev, which is responsible for about 1.4 million metric tons of spent barley. EverGrain currently offers two ingredients: EverPro and EverVita. Both are high in protein, highly adaptable and different than anything else on the market. EverPro is being marketed as an ingredient for plant-based dairy applications (it could also be used to add protein to less conventional products, like RTD iced tea). EverVita is a high protein ingredient that is marketed to the baked goods sector. Barley has a fairly neutral taste, meaning it doesn’t need bitter blockers or heavy flavouring to make it palatable in several applications. It also has a high-protein quality. While barley isn’t a complete protein, several of the amico acids it lacks are in pea protein, making it a complementary ingredient. And barley protein is 95% soluble, so the ingredient can be used to easily add nutrients to beverages without changing their appearance or texture.