Marine Biologics has announced the launch of SeaTex, a patent-pending, high-performance seaweed powder designed for protein stabilisation.
The solution is described as a nutritional design tool that can suspend and stabilise nutritious ingredients – such as fibres, minerals and bioactives – across various food and beverage applications. It can also bind and structure lipids and fats.
Offering a neutral taste and ‘extremely low’ application rate, SeaTex is designed to replace multi-ingredient stabilisation and buffering stacks with a single, clean label solution that can be reproduced consistently and at scale.
According to California-based Marine Biologics, the vegan-friendly solution can tolerate a wide range of pH and temperature requirements. It is sourced from GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe), ocean-harvested brown seaweed, and contains zero additives, synthetic ingredients or carrageenans. This enables manufacturers to formulate without gums, buffers and bulking agents as consumers seek simpler, ‘cleaner’ ingredients.
Patrick Griffin, CEO of Marine Biologics, said: “Seaweed has long offered the promise of an abundant and renewable alternative ingredient, but a narrow understanding of its chemical composition and outdated production methods have led to highly refined ingredients that consumers are no longer interested in seeing on their ingredient labels”.
He added: “With our breakthrough processing capabilities, we provide product developers and brand teams with new tools to meet consumer demands for cleaner labels”.
The company used MacroLink, an AI engine purpose-built for ingredient design, to address common constraints surrounding time-consuming R&D cycles in functional ingredient development. Marine Biologics said this allowed it to take ingredient discovery ‘from years to months,’ unlocking new potential in the $121 billion market for clean functional ingredients.
Marine Biologics’ initial focus is on producing seaweed-derived functional ingredients, but is exploring other areas of innovation beyond SeaTex, such as natural egg replacements, baking texturants, bioactives and next-gen biopolymers for sustainable packaging.
SeaTex makes its official debut at the Future of Food Tech event in San Francisco, US, from 19–20 March 2026.
