LyteGro turns waste bananas into liquid gold.
We make BacLyte, a water-based extract from the pulp of black bananas, which turbocharges bacteria and yeast to improve the performance and yield of important microbially-driven industrial processes such as fermentation, yeast and chemical production and anaerobic digestion. Our products improve microbial growth and metabolism to increase production efficiency and profitability whilst also reducing their feedstock, water and energy footprints.

Our products act like "steroids for microbes" enabling end users to grow bacteria, yeast and fungi faster, grow more, and grow them cheaper. We have industry validated products for the R&D, yeast and probiotic production industries, as well as for distilling and bioenergy production. For example, Propagreater, our distilling product is a simple 6hr pre-treatment for yeast which can halve fermentation time whilst also giving 10-20% extra yield. Our anaerobic digestion supplement (at just 0.5% v/v level) enables either the same yield of methane in half the time or an increase of 60% methane over a usual run time. We are also patenting BacLyte's use in doubling biomass/yield in yeast production and enhancing yields in the manufacturing of proteins and vaccines.

Our business model is to produce materials for the UK and European markets ourselves and to grow rapidly and globally through joint venture partnerships in banana-producing countries. We are currently seeking to establish production and sales partnerships for our products in Australia. We wish to enter joint venture partnerships where the Australian partner has access to the waste banana feedstock and can bring the capital needed to buid and operate the plant. LyteGro will supply plant designs, production know-how and patent rights to produce & sell our products the Australian distilling and bioenergy industries. Please get in touch if you would like to find out more.