Kosmode Health Wins SPARK Sustainability Innovator Award

In 2025, Kosmode Health was honoured with the SPARK Sustainability Innovator Award (3rd Prize) at FDM Kuala Lumpur. SPARK celebrates bold, purpose-driven AgriFoodTech ventures that are transforming food systems under the pressures of climate volatility, resource scarcity, and shifting global demand. It recognises change makers building not only the future of food, but doing so with innovation, resilience, and impact on the ground.

Repurposing By-products Into Functional Food

Kosmode Health’s award-winning solution focuses on repurposing food processing wastes into functional foods, even food as medicine. With its pioneering extraction of protein and fibre from Spent Barley Grains (a by-product of beer and malt production), the company developed the revolutionary W0W® Noodle, the world’s first and only starchless, protein-fibre noodle clinically validated to have zero glycemic response. This bold innovation addresses the urgent need for affordable, health-promoting foods that align with both human well-being and planetary health.

Sustainability and Impact at Scale

By transforming nutrient-rich by-products typically destined for landfills or low-value uses, Kosmode Health delivers a dual impact: reducing environmental burdens while creating new nutritional and economic value. This approach not only tackles global food security challenges but also provides a sustainable pathway for functional ingredients in both agri-food and biomedical industries.

A Vision for the Future

Kosmode Health is driven by the belief that feeding the world does not require growing more, but using what we already have, giving crops a second life. Its mission is clear: to expand access to health from nature by repurposing food processing by-products into functional ingredients and health-promoting, earth-sustaining food, addressing health needs without compromising the earth. And its vision is ambitious: to lead Asia in creating repurposed ingredient markets and setting the global benchmark for food as medicine.

The recognition at SPARK highlights the company’s dedication to proving that sustainable practices can simultaneously support the health of people and the planet. With innovations like the W0W® Barley Fresh Noodle, Kosmode Health continues to redefine what functional food can mean for communities worldwide.