About Us
Botanicals have great potential to be used in the design of innovative functional foods. Spray drying is a method of drying used to improve the preservation of powders as well as a method of encapsulating important bioactives or chemical classes, to retain functionality. Encapsulation result in a powder with improved stability, quality and shelf life, and lower volume and weight (facilitating storage, handling and transportation). The production of botanical powders with desirable physicochemical properties is influenced by the initial botanical, the characteristics and parameters of the spray drying equipment, and carrier selected. The bioavailability of bioactives depends significantly on the structure and form in which they are taken into the body, and encapsulation has shown a protective effect during the digestive process allowing a controlled release of biologically active molecules. To obtain products with improved organoleptic and nutritional properties and higher yields, it is important to optimise the encapsulation process.
Vision
With Tetrim Teas and Madarch Cymru, Cleobury established the Arfor Community Mushroom Units in 2024 in Carmarthenshire, Gwynedd and Ceredigion with social partnerships with the local communities. Additionally, the partnership is establishing the Canolfan Bwyd Trimsaran (Drying and Processing Unit) in Wales, which will be fully completed by October 2024.
Cleobury uses and promotes ethical working and supply practices, working with local and not-for-profit organisations and suppliers whenever possible. They take expertise from industry experts to inform wellbeing actions for society, underpinning delivery with the goals and ways of working of the Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act.
