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CO₂-to-Probiotic: Carbon-Smart Cultures for Food & Beverage. Air-grown, food-grade probiotics: mainstream strains fed by CO₂; scalable, taste-neutral, low-cost and planet-positive.
About
Cener upcycles CO₂ into food-grade probiotics using a two-stage, carbon-circular process. First, autotrophic gas fermentation converts CO₂ into clean common chemical platform. Second, a mainstream, safety-qualified probiotic strain is cultivated with chemical platform as the sole carbon source, producing taste-neutral, shelf-stable cultures. This decouples production from sugars and farmland, improves supply resilience, and locks atmospheric carbon into beneficial nutrition. The platform is modular and scalable, compatible with standard fermenters and PepsiCo’s ingredient formats (beverage syrups, dry blends). Differentiators include: use of a widely accepted strain (clear GRAS/QPS path), tunable metabolite profile and stress tolerance, and proprietary feeding/control strategies for high yields
Key Benefits
PepsiCo gains a clean-label, taste-neutral, food-grade probiotic grown from CO₂—not crops—delivering gut-health functionality without sugar or dairy inputs. Our platform decouples supply from farmland and commodity volatility, improving cost stability and resilience. It’s drop-in compatible with beverage syrups and dry blends, shelf-stable, and built on a mainstream, safety-qualified strain (non-GMO option). Consumers get credible wellness with an “air-grown” sustainability story, while PepsiCo advances Scope-3 goals via lower land/water use and circular carbon
Applications
PepsiCo beverage & nutrition platforms (functional hydration, zero/low-sugar refreshment, powdered drink mixes, wellness snacks) needing a clean-label, taste-neutral probiotic. Family wellness (kids’ beverages with mild claims), senior digestion support, emerging markets’ fortified drinks.