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Consumer staples

Branded functional staples that cook like the food people already buy.

Consumer adoption depends on familiar cooking behavior, texture and price. Meallions models those attributes alongside nutrition, so a fortified staple reaches shelf without asking households to change habits.

Who this is for

  • Consumer brands and private label teams
  • Retail and e-commerce staples categories
  • Regional food brands entering functional foods

Outcomes

  • Products that cook and taste like the incumbent staple
  • Price parity with conventional alternatives
  • Claims backed by traceable production data

What we deliver

Sensory-aware formulation

Cook time, texture and appearance treated as design targets, not afterthoughts.

Cost-comparable products

Formulations ranked against a price ceiling before trials begin.

Launch-ready documentation

Nutrition claims supported by verified production records.

How it works

  1. 1Set the shelf price, nutrition claim and sensory expectations for the category.
  2. 2Simulate candidate formulations and rank them on cost, nutrition and texture.
  3. 3Confirm the shortlist with consumer-ready samples from the pilot line.
  4. 4Scale the verified recipe to the manufacturing partner.
Mission

Transforming nutrition with AI, one grain at a time.

Hidden hunger leaves nearly 2 billion people short of essential micronutrients. Meallions makes micronutrient-fortified rice and cereals repeatable at industrial scale — cooked and priced like the staples households already buy.

Pilot production center, Nairobi

Fortified grains produced from local crops, where adaptive fortification, extrusion and the production twin are proven together before a customer line is configured.

Throughput
~250 kg/h
Feedstock
Maize · Sorghum · Cassava · Broken rice
  • Anemia risk reduction through fortified staples
  • Circular use of local crops and broken rice
  • Local jobs, operator training and skills