Overview
Ardra Bio (Toronto) is a business-to-business biotech company focused on creating sustainable and ethical ingredients that are used in food and cosmetics products.
What they’re doing: Expanding on their animal-free heme (a compound found in blood) that is used in plant-based meats to give it authentic flavour, Ardra is using their heme ingredient to create an iron supplement.
How will this be used in the real world? Nearly a quarter of the world’s population has anemia, most of them children and women. Since heme is the best source of iron, Ardra is scaling up its heme iron supplement to provide an animal-free and sustainable source of nutrients for people with iron deficiency.