Shared data for better plant proteins

The Data Garden measures plant proteins using standardized methods and openly publishes the results, giving suppliers, ingredient buyers, and researchers a common foundation for comparing ingredients and accelerating innovation.

A characterization record, not a marketing claim

Every ingredient is profiled the same way, by the same instruments, against the same protocols. Each figure traces back to a frozen run.

Composition

Protein content (LECO Dumas), moisture, and ash.

Structure

Particle size (DLS), thermal denaturation (DSC).

Function

Solubility, water binding, foam, emulsion, gel strength.

Stability

Thermal endotherms and Turbiscan time-series behavior.

Anonymized by default. Attribution by invitation.

Ingredients enter the public record stripped of supplier identity. Attribution is the supplier's call - granted to anyone, at any depth.

Three ways in

The Data Garden serves three audiences. Pick the one that fits.

For researchers

A public, reusable evidence base.

We treat the linkage between ingredients, extraction, and function as a shared scientific problem — foundational work that has broad utility but suffers from industry silos. The Data Garden is the base layer: every datapoint traceable to its source, every method with a writeup, every dataset with a stable identifier.

For ingredient suppliers

Your ingredient shines.

Proteins that survive cost optimization often underperform on stretch, foaming, gelling, emulsifying — and that's without even considering pH. Submit a defatted protein-rich flour and we'll run the full analytical battery; the results are yours. Anonymized by default; attribution is your call.

For ingredient buyers & product developers

Threading every needle, at once.

An ingredient has to satisfy taste, texture, nutrition, cost, regulatory, supply, and consumer fit. Cost and the rest move through predictable channels — function is the gamble. We make function open. Lock function, then substitute on everything else.

Just looking around? Skim the methods and protocols or open the full compendium.