Farmhood
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Industries
- Alternative proteins, Food ingredients & products, Food reformulation, Waste efficiency, Plant-based, Clean label, Circular economy
- Domains
- Fruit, Plant based primary products, Vegetables, Ingredients, Proteins
- Technologies
- Processing, Biorefining, Biotechnology & sustainable inputs, Extraction, IQF freezing
About Farmhood
Farmhood is a foodtech startup focused on turning agrifood byproducts into plant-based proteins and functional food ingredients. Its website presents the company as part of the shift toward circular nutrition, with a mission to reduce food waste and create ingredients that are both sustainable and economically feasible.
The company also develops consumer snacks, especially protein-enriched chips made from real ingredients. Farmhood positions these products as clean-label, functional, and satisfying snacks that combine taste, nutrition, and a lower-waste approach to food production.
Core Values
- Circularity: Farmhood emphasizes waste-to-value thinking, using food science and circular design to turn byproducts into useful ingredients and products.
- Sustainability: The company frames its work around reducing food waste, lowering emissions, and creating more resource-efficient food systems.
- Nutrition: Farmhood aims to make snacks and ingredients that do more than deliver flavor, with a focus on protein, fiber, and functional benefits.
- Taste and enjoyment: Even with a health and sustainability focus, the company stresses that its products should remain crunchy, satisfying, and enjoyable to eat.
Unique Aspects
- Waste-to-value ingredient model: Farmhood specifically focuses on valorising agrifood byproducts, which gives its ingredient strategy a circular-economy angle.
- Combination of upcycled protein and freeze-drying: The company highlights a proprietary process that combines upcycled protein with freeze-drying technology to create its snack products.
- Dual focus on ingredients and finished snacks: Farmhood works both on sustainable plant-based ingredients and on consumer-ready snack products, linking B2B-style food innovation with branded retail concepts.
- External innovation support: Farmhood says its project was selected for support under the World Bank-supported TÜBİTAK 1831 Green Innovation Technology Mentorship Program, and it has also participated in the Food Innovation Cluster coordinated by Marmara Teknokent.