One waste stream. Two material streams. Three food-grade products.
Persea Vitalis converts landfilled avocado seed into a standardised extract and a starch — feeding three evidence-driven products that cut Canada's fruit postharvest loss.
One landfilled avocado seed, diverted through SeedCircle, passes through a single standardised extraction into two material streams — a polyphenol/acetogenin extract and a starch. Those streams become three food-grade products: FreshGuard™ (anti-browning, fast first revenue), VitaFilm™ (active packaging), and PhytoGuard™ (bio-antifungal decay control, the regulatory moat). One R&D programme, one supply chain — three regulators, three speeds, and no avocado-seed postharvest product registered anywhere in the world.
Platform Architecture
Persea Vitalis is a postharvest platform: one circular supply chain (SeedCircle) and one standardised extraction split each avocado seed into two material streams — a polyphenol/acetogenin extract and a starch — feeding three food-grade products: FreshGuard™ anti-browning, VitaFilm™ active packaging, and PhytoGuard™ bio-antifungal decay control.
Three Products
Three products. Three regulators. Three speeds.
Classification follows the claim, not the material — so the same seed reaches market by three different doors. The fast food-grade products carry market entry while the PhytoGuard™ antifungal registration matures behind them as the moat. Ordered here by speed to market.
Anti-browning for fresh-cut fruit.
A seed-extract anti-browning agent that inhibits polyphenol oxidase (PPO) and keeps fresh-cut produce visually fresh. A Health Canada food additive / processing aid — no pesticide registration — so it slots into existing approved-ingredient procurement and reaches revenue in months.
Explore FreshGuard →Active packaging from the starch.
Biodegradable films and edible coatings made from the avocado-seed starch stream — the fraction an extract-only business would landfill. A shelf-life / barrier claim cleared in Canada by a Health Canada Letter of No Objection, a moderate and well-trodden path.
Explore VitaFilm →Bio-antifungal decay control.
A standardised aqueous seed extract applied as a postharvest dip or coating, controlling the decay fungi that drive postharvest loss. A PMRA biochemical-pathway registration — the slow, defensible barrier a fast-follower cannot shortcut, now estimated at ~18–24 months for a new active.
Explore PhytoGuard →Platform Engine
SeedCircle: one supply chain. One seed → two streams → three products.
Ontario's Tier-1 food-service processors landfill large volumes of avocado seed at zero value. SeedCircle diverts that waste into a controlled, traceable, cold-chain pipeline and one standardised extraction — yielding the two streams that feed all three products at near-marginal cost.
The Problem & The White Space
A large Canadian loss. A failing chemistry. No registered competitor.
Execution
Three products. Three speeds. Advancing in parallel.
Time-to-revenue collapses because no single slow registration gates the company. The fast food-grade products carry market entry — FreshGuard™ first, in months — while the PhytoGuard™ registration matures behind them. Lot-release quality control and applied in-vivo efficacy are the real gates, not a toxicology ladder.
Full three-track roadmapPartner With Us
One platform. Three fronts to move it forward.
Persea Vitalis is in Bioenterprise's GOAH mentorship programme and seeks advisory and partnership support on three fronts — to deliver first revenue from FreshGuard™ in months while PhytoGuard™ advances toward registration. Each path routes directly to the founder.
A postharvest in-vivo assay on harvested fruit completes in weeks and can run all three product arms on shared fruit lots — advancing PhytoGuard™'s lead citrus claim and seeding the FreshGuard™ and VitaFilm™ application data.
Research Inquiry →Non-dilutive first. We are sequencing a grant stack to first FreshGuard™ revenue and the PhytoGuard™ pre-submission. The ask: the three-path regulatory strategy, postharvest go-to-market, and the funding stack.
Funding Inquiry →Ontario Tier-1 processors landfill tens of thousands of kg of avocado seed per month at zero value. SeedCircle diverts it into a controlled, traceable pipeline — pilot scale needs well under 3% of available supply.
Supply Inquiry →