SEASPIRE’S WHOLE-CUT WHITE FISH PLANT-BASED SEAFOOD

SeaSpire’s whole-cut white fish plant-based seafood will hit the APAC market soon. SeaSpire, an Indian alternative seafood start-up reveals its clean label whole-cut snapper alternative made using only 7 clean label plant-based ingredients using its proprietary bioprinting platform. The company claims to be first of its kind to produce bio-printed whole-cut whitefish products in the APAC region with the region lagging in both product and processing innovations within the alternative seafood segment.

SeaSpire  is a food-tech company that produces whole cuts of seafood alternatives, starting with whole cut snapper analogues. The company was founded to help address the current challenges in whole-cut production and scalability of 3D printing with its technology platform that is capable of structuring both plant and synthetic biomass such as cultivated meat into whole-muscle through AI-controlled precision and improving production scale by increasing throughput from current scale of 3D printing.

The company is establishing an operational base in India to cater to the APAC region. The plant-based meat consumer adoption in the Indian-subcontinent is on its rise and the company is optimistic that this region will also experience similar growth in demand across the alternative

seafood category in the coming years. They have their R&D base in New Zealand where they conduct technology development within New Zealand’s sound innovation ecosystem. With a rich heritage in food tech and animal proteins and strong Oceania brand story as a legacy protein producer working towards a sustainable protein transition.

Over the coming months the company will pilot-launch its first set of plant-based seafood offerings in India and New Zealand starting with a plant-based whole-cut snapper filets and focus on building an alternative-seafood brand in the emerging APAC markets including Singapore and Australasia.

“We see green field opportunities when it comes to alt-seafoods in the largest seafood consuming regions like India and south-east Asia. We aim to drive category growth in this region with a range of healthy and delectable alt-seafood starting with our whole-muscle whitefish fillets’, says co-founder Shantanu Dhangar.

SeaSpire focuses on technologies that can displace the inefficiencies with seafood production with a strong emphasis on the global food supply towards a circular economy. The company is investigating potential of upcycled horticultural side streams to develop feedstock for their alternative seafood whole-cuts.

“We need smart proteins and even a smarter production infrastructure to address sustainable food transition for future generations. Reducing supply chain stress, ingredient innovations and upcycling feedstock are supporting pillars for our success at SeaSpire”, says co-founder Varun Gadodia.

The company will be showcasing its products at Tomorrow’s Protein Summit – by XPRIZE Foundation later this year and is aiming for its plant-based whitefish whole-cuts market launch in early 2023.

 Adding on this development, veteran alternative seafood professional & Industry Advisory Board member of Good Food Institute India Amod Ashok Salgaonkar said;

“Am viewing these youngsters working on the development of the products since 2021 & hats off to their consistent efforts we are able see the products in reality on plate today. This will encourage other professionals & companies in India who would like to take an entry in Alternative seafood on a serious note. The Alternative Seafood segment in India is just initiating and there is long way to go but this will bring more opportunities through emergence of novel seafood category for feeding billions in Asia.”

 For more information see the website – www.seaspire.in

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