Cano-ela B.V.
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- Apeldoorn, Netherlands
- Industries
- Alternative proteins, Food ingredients & products, Food reformulation, New food processing techniques
- Domains
- Functional ingredients, Ingredients, Plant based primary products, Fat alternatives, Fibres, Proteins, Protein concentrates, Palm oil alternatives
- Technologies
- Extraction, Processing, Biorefining, Biotechnology & sustainable inputs, Physical modification
About Cano-ela B.V.
Cano-ela is a food-tech company focused on reducing the food industry’s reliance on refined ingredients by processing oil-rich seeds in a more innovative way. Its approach is built around canola and other oil-rich seeds, which it treats as sources of multiple food-building components rather than only as oil crops.
The company positions itself as a supplier of healthier, more natural, and more sustainable ingredients for food manufacturers, especially those developing plant-based and clean-label products. By extracting natural structures from seeds, Cano-ela aims to help customers create foods with simpler ingredient lists while preserving functionality, taste, and nutritional value.
Core Values
- Health and nutrition: The company emphasizes ingredients that naturally contribute essential fatty acids, proteins, phenolics, fiber, and micronutrients, with the goal of supporting healthier food formulations.
- Sustainability and circularity: Cano-ela highlights zero-waste processing, circular use of resources, and better use of oil-rich seeds so that more of the harvested crop is used for food purposes.
- Clean label and transparency: Its ingredients are designed to help manufacturers simplify labels by replacing refined, synthetic, or highly processed additives with naturally derived alternatives.
- Innovation: The company’s core proposition is based on a new extraction process that unlocks multiple functional fractions from seeds rather than only extracting oil.
Unique Aspects
- Seed fractionation beyond oil: Cano-ela’s differentiator is its process for extracting multiple functional ingredients from oil-rich seeds, rather than using the crop only for vegetable oil.
- Three distinct ingredient fractions: The company’s portfolio is organized around Cano-cream, Cano-soluble, and Cano-fiber, each targeting different formulation needs and functional outcomes.
- Supports ingredient reduction: Cano-ela says its ingredients can help remove between three and five refined or synthetic ingredients from a formulation, depending on the application.
- Sustainability-led positioning: The company explicitly ties its technology to SDG themes such as zero hunger, good health and well-being, innovation, and responsible consumption and production.
- GMO-free sourcing focus in Europe: In its GMO discussion, Cano-ela states that it currently focuses on 100% GMO-free crops sourced locally, reflecting consumer and regulatory preferences in Europe.