Fresh Produce Streams

Banana Side-Stream Platform

A full platform for banana side streams — transforming pseudostem, fibre, and green fruit into transport pallets, potassium-enriched fertilizer, and gluten-free flour.
3 Streams
Recovered from one crop
100%
Pseudostem utilisation
ISPM-15
Certified pallet output

Bananas are one of the most carefully managed products in fresh produce — harvested green, shipped under tightly controlled conditions, and ripened near the destination market. But the plant generates enormous volumes of by-product the industry rarely captures: stems, leaves, pseudostem, and downgraded green fruit.

We built a platform that recovers value from all of it. Rather than a single product, the banana stream yields three distinct commercial outputs — each addressing a different market.

Three products from one plant

Transport pallets — banana pseudostem upcycled into sustainable, ISPM-15 certified export transport pallets, replacing freshly cut wood in shipping and handling.

Potassium-enriched fertilizer — pseudostem processed into potassium-enriched fertilizer, returning nutrients to agricultural use.

Green banana flour — clean-label resistant starch from green bananas that supports gut health, stabilizes blood sugar, is gluten-free, and reduces food waste.

The same plant material the industry treats as waste, rebuilt into infrastructure, agricultural input, and clean-label ingredient.

Three products, one plant

  • Full crop utilisation — recovers stems, pseudostem, and green fruit that would otherwise be discarded.
  • Three market categories — industrial materials, agricultural inputs, and food ingredients from one stream.
  • ISPM-15 certified pallets — export-ready with no fumigation required.
  • Clean-label flour — gluten-free resistant starch with functional health benefits.