In this episode, we speak with Florence Leong - Founder and Director of Kosmode Health, where we discuss the issues of food security, the challenges in achieving Singapore's food security goal of 30x30, as well as food innovations from spent barley grains in the food industry, battling diabetes and developing protein scaffolds for the biomedical industry!

More about Kosmode Health: https://kosmodehealth.com/

Connect with Florence: https://www.linkedin.com/in/florenceleong/

Timestamps:

00:00 - Opening Sequence

00:11 - Meet your hosts

00:28 - Meet our guest - Florence Leong

00:49 - So who is Florence and what is Kosmode Health?

01:19 - Kosmode Health in a nutshell

02:02 - The focus of today's episode

02:10 - Kosmode Health's corporate video

02:11 - What's in the name - Kosmode Health?

02:32 - A quick history lesson on Kosmode Health

03:48 - The truth about the Nutrition industry

04:47 - The Eureka Moment

05:22 - Noodles from Spent Barley grains? How?

06:01 - From Protein Fibres to creating Functional Foods

06:46 - Developing "Asian Flavoured" Drinks for the elderly

07:45 - What B2B companies can do to adopt asian flavoured products for the elderly

08:21 - The genesis of W0W noodles

09:43 - Market testing with W0W noodles

10:12 - Why aren't more people using food waste as functional ingredients?

12:50 - 30 by 30 - Shouldn't we look at Food staples instead of alt proteins?

14:57 - The current food limitations of Diabetics and how it can be opened up

15:52 - Explaining the difference between Glycemic Index (GI) and Glycemic Response (GR)

17:39 - What other foods can become Zero GR?

18:34 - How can eldery customers become more learned about GI, GR and relateed products?

20:16 - The Failing formula that is diabetic prescription

21:33 - Flour mills are the second biggest waste stream - what can we do with that?

22:50 - Potentially removing the issue of Diabetes and Food Security with Wheat Bran

23:41 - 30 by 30 - we've got to make changes in order to hit that mark!

26:08 - How much does W0W noodles cost?

26:48 - Biomedical applications through Protein Isolate extraction from Food Waste

28:47 - Current biomedical products being tested

30:25 - What's the vision for Kosmode Health?

32:04 - Identifying the biggest barrier for Food Valorization - Food Waste collection

33:13 - The challenges of processing food waste

34:19 - Closing statements and Wrapping it up!