About us

We are a bio-food-tech company that creates food products from various natural sources of marshlands. We produce large quantities of these foods without using fresh water, transforming marshes into R&D hubs, and identifying species with multiple benefits.

Manifesto

Marisma Biomed® products must meet three requirements:

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    Health

    They must provide health benefits when consumed regularly by the population.

    They should particularly improve vascular health, which is a common deficiency in half of the Western population.

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    Ecology

    These products, including foods, new foods, and dietary supplements, must be produced in an environmentally sustainable setting, making use of previously untapped marshland elements in a respectful manner.

    We also capture tons of CO2.

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    Innovation

    The products must be innovative and provide cutting-edge value.

    Created using novel techniques for extracting polyphenols, proteins, and fibers

Our processes

We have developed the ability to extract healthy compounds from halophytic plants.

  • Technique

    We use cultivation systems to maximise the production of these compounds.


    State-of-the-art controlled dehydration and grinding techniques create powdered salicornia and soluble fibres that are easy to integrate into various food matrices.

  • Producers

    We work with small producers who grow salicornia and seaweed organically in the marshlands of Huelva, Portugal and the Netherlands.


    We also have our own production of Salicornia and other ingredients in our experimental laboratory in Salina Santa Barbara, in the Natural Park of the Bay of Cadiz.

  • Evidence

    We collaborate with several universities, hospitals and research centres to ensure that we generate extensive scientific evidence before putting our products on the market.

    The products we produce undergo constant analysis to guarantee their health benefits for the population.

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Santa Barbara Salt Marsh

Our living laboratory in the marshlands of the Bay of Cadiz Natural Park, in the south of Andalusia (Spain), is an old abandoned salt marsh, one of the most beautiful in the area, where we analyse the biodiversity of the intertidal marshes to create innovative and sustainable food to improve the health of the population, as well as to raise awareness of this wonderful ecosystem that has so much to discover.

Some of the research processes we are carrying out...

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    Sustainable harvesting of halophytes

    It is necessary to know how halophytes such as salicornia and sarcocornia in the area respond to harvesting pruning and whether this affects their ability to flower, reproduce and their composition, in order to identify the best times of the year to harvest in order to make harvesting as sustainable as possible.

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    New crops of salicornia

    We want to study the possibilities of cultivating different halophytes in clogged land as well as in canals and estuaries in order to recover and increase areas of biomass, to capture CO2 and to evaluate their possible commercial exploitation.

  • Canal de agua de la marisma rodeado por plantas halófitas y algas.

    New protein sources

    Find and study alternative protein sources to animal meat for human consumption. This includes exploring abundant resources found in the marshlands, such as algae, macroinvertebrates, etc.

The Team

We are a multidisciplinary team made up of biologists, chemists, nutritionists, doctors, environmentalists and graphic designers who have come together with the same objective: to bring the benefits hidden in the marshes closer to the population.

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    The Shadow

    It leads the team. It connects the team's scientists with local marshland producers, the food industry, the health sector and society to boost the blue economy in the region.

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    Galena

    It advises us on the biomedical aspects and possible healthy uses of our foods and on the design of clinical trials with our products in order to obtain the maximum scientific evidence before placing them on the market.

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    The Djinn

    An expert in design and healthy eating, it looks after the image of Marisma Biomed and its relationship with our clients and society through the networks. Itis always on the lookout for innovative food trends.

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    The Chemist

    In charge of R&D and safety aspects, with extensive experience in the food industry. Having worked for multinationals in the food sector, it has opted for Marisma Biomed.

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    Carbon-14

    Our expert in environmental science, it manages the production of halophytes in a sustainable way, and researches the incorporation of new ingredients from the marsh into our ‘recipes’.

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    The Engineer

    He is aware of the movements of the sea water through the salt flats, which gives life to our natural laboratory in the marshes of the Bay of Cadiz Natural Park.

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    The Invisible Woman

    She monitors our economy and advises us on how much of our profits we can re-invest in research to make ends meet. In love with food-tech.

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    Green Spirit

    Our regulatory expert, in charge of registering our foods with the European food agencies.

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    The Confidantes

    They know about laws and regulations, they advise us on the best partners, producers and collaborators.

  • The Druid

    He creates the healthiest ferments with what the marshlands provide us. He brings impossible foods within our reach

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