For many, by-products generated from food-making processes may be seen as mere waste, but not for Christo Worst, the founder and CEO of Plato's, a South African grain crisp made from tons of spent grain from one of Cape Town's breweries.
While working for Bühler, a Swiss food processing equipment manufacturer, Worst got immersed into the world of by-products and their different uses and attempted making cereal from maize germ, a highly nutritional by-product of maize meal production. After settling on the idea of the chips, Worst spent months experimenting with upcycled spent grains, mixing other raw ingredients that landed him on what he says tasted like cardboard at the start.“[It took about] about three months; and that was [me] trying to get the spent grain to actually bind to something else, combining it with different other raw material to get a proper base to work from, trying different oils,” said Worst.
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