Chinova Bioworks Names Hawkins Watts as Exclusive Distributor for Chiber™ Mushroom Fiber Extract in Australia and New Zealand

Introducing MycoKleer™, A Natural Fining Agent For Beverages By Chinova Bioworks

Game-Changing Chiber™, First Mushroom Fiber To Be An Approved Ingredient For Whole Foods Market

Natural Products Canada Releases First Female-focused Report For International Women’s Day

Natasha Dhayagude, CEO of Chinova Bioworks, Receives Innovation Award With Over 9,000 Nominations

Innovators & Entrepreneurs Foundation (IEF) Announces The CANIE 2022 Entrepreneur Of The Year Award Winner As Chinova Bioworks CEO, Natasha Dhayagude

Grand Opening Event Commemorating Chinova Bioworks New Manufacturing Site Inside Freshly Built Bioscience Manufacturing Incubator (BMI) On Prince Edward Island

Chinova Bioworks, a Canadian-based food, and beverage start-up, introduces Mycobrio™, a dual functioning mushroom-derived fining agent and natural preservation ingredient formulated explicitly for alcoholic and low/no-alcoholic beverage markets.

Chinova Bioworks, a Canadian company addressing consumers’ demand for healthy, natural, clean-label ingredients, received a No Questions Letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding their Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) Notice No. GRN 000997 application for Chiber™ Mushroom Fiber, a natural food and beverage preservative.

Chinova Bioworks, receives Start-up Award from NutraIngredients-USA 2022 virtual awards.

NutraIngredients-USA Awards honor the best and brightest in ingredients, finished products, companies, people, and initiatives in the nutrition and dietary supplements industry. This annual event marks the fifth year for the awards, which cover 17 different categories.

Chinova Bioworks, a Canadian company addressing the growing consumer demand for healthy, natural, clean-label ingredients, has closed a $6 million Series A funding round. DSM Venturing and Rhapsody Venture Partners co-led the round of funding with Rich Products Ventures also participating in the financing.

Chinova Bioworks, a Canadian company that addresses the growing consumer demand for healthy, natural, clean-label ingredients, is pleased to announce that Sustainable Development Technology Canada (“SDTC”) has approved a $1.5M contribution to their expansion project.

Food technology company, Chinova Bioworks, offers unique natural, clean-label preservatives extracted from mushrooms for the food and beverage industry. It also offers an unparalleled opportunity for women working in STEM fields: the opportunity to partner and lead.

Vegan beer drinkers will be able to raise a brew soon to celebrate as Chinova Bioworks has just launched a major research initiative with the College Communautaire du Nouveau Brunswick's (CCNB) INNOV centre, backed by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s Innovation Voucher Fund to develop an exciting new processing aid for vegan-friendly brews.

Tossing some meat on the grill is a popular summertime activity, but plant-based meats have made this tradition even more inclusive for all palates and preferences. Outside the ever-increasing demand, there is just one huge hurdle plant-based meat producers face when going up against the animal meat industry, and that is moving from frozen, where shelf life is easier to achieve, to refrigerated, where finding a descent shelf life is far more challenging.

There’s more to celebrate this Memorial Day weekend when it comes to your picnic planning. Chinova Bioworks has made possible a new application for its Chiber in sauces, spreads, dips and dressings. Chiber is a clean-label, natural fiber derived from the stems of white button mushrooms that helps improve quality, freshness and shelf life, while reducing food waste.

It was a novel idea for a vital ingredient to preserve food products without artificial means that brought Natasha Dhayagude and David Brown together to start Chinova Bioworks five years ago with their natural fiber extract derived from the stems of white button mushrooms that they named Chiber™. Today, the company is rapidly expanding their manufacturing to increase capacity and meet demands for the proprietary, natural preservative, clean-label mushroom extract ingredient.