Upcycled Citrus Ingredients — Mediterranean
albedia
Food ingredients from fruit no one harvests. One fruit. Four ingredients. Zero waste.
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Food ingredients from fruit no one harvests. One fruit. Four ingredients. Zero waste.
Every winter, the Mediterranean's bitter orange trees stand heavy with fruit no one harvests. Unsprayed. Untouched. Forgotten. We take that fruit — and release everything inside it, layer by layer.
Cold-pressed from the outer rind: the most volatile fraction leaves first.
The albedo — the spongy tissue under the peel — turns into clean-label functional fiber. Our hero ingredient.
A natural hydrocolloid with high gelling strength comes out of the extraction line.
The molecule that makes bitter orange bitter becomes nutraceutical value. And nothing is left behind.
One line on the label. Everything behind it.
It binds water, builds texture and holds emulsions together — while quietly replacing the fat, sugar and additives your label doesn't want.
Gelling and stabilization. From jams to dairy.
Natural aroma and solvent. Food, cosmetics, home care.
Flavonoid extract for nutraceuticals and functional beverages.
Albedia makes food ingredients from the Mediterranean's bitter orange — a fruit too bitter to eat, left ungrafted, unsprayed and unharvested on its tree. We take it in whole and turn it into citrus fiber, pectin, d-limonene and naringin. Nothing is wasted.
