The Institute Labs
Our growing network of labs allows us to expand our vision and scope to develop and deepen our understanding and build instrumentation to assist growers, companies, retailers and eaters in accessing a food supply that is resilient and nutrient dense.
Massachusetts Lab
LOCATION: Boston, Massachusetts - this lab is now run by Edacious
ESTABLISHED: Summer 2021
ROLE: This lab is being built to improve upon the Bionutrient Meter, and to begin comprehensively defining Nutrient Density. In this lab we have the capacity to identify a complete spectrum of elements and biochemical molecules, as well as anti-nutrient factors, such as toxins and pathogens.
California Lab
LOCATION: Chico State University, California
ESTABLISHED: 2019
ROLE: Chico State is the U.S.’s only university Regenerative Ag program. The priority of this lab is to assess crops produced in side by side university trials, focused on the connection between management practices and soil carbon sequestration. This allows us to deepen our understanding of the connection between nutrient density and soil carbon.
France Lab
LOCATION: Combourtillé, France
ESTABLISHED: 2020
ROLE: In partnership with Eco-sens (formerly Valorex), our French lab was set up to address the desire from European growers to take part in our work assessing crops and soil. With partners from 6 different countries engaged through this lab, the vision of an international network of allies now has solid footing.
Utah Lab
LOCATION: Utah State University, Logan, Utah
ESTABLISHED: 2022
ROLE: The Center for Human Nutrition Studies at Utah State University is committed to studying linkages between sustainable agricultural and human health. The research team is actively working on projects linking health along the soil-plant-animal-human health continuum and defining nutrient density in foods from various production practices. The team also conducts randomized controlled trials to study human health biomarkers in response to these foods.
United Kingdom Lab
LOCATION: James Hutton Institute, Scotland
ESTABLISHED: 2022
ROLE: Growing Real Food for Nutrition (Grffn) is a new not for profit based in England that wants to extend and support the work of the Bionutrient Institute and its partners. Grffn has commissioned the James Hutton Institute to carry out its laboratory work in the UK.
From 2018 to 2020 - Watch Our Growth!
2018 PARTNER MAP: 7 Citizen Scientists
2019 PARTNER MAP: 30 Citizen Scientists & 26 Grower Partners
2020 PARTNER MAP: 31 Citizen Scientists & 161 GLOBAL Grower Partners
Our Focus
Building calibration models and support the development of handheld analytical instruments.
Developing methods and application models for the instruments that are deployed to the satellite labs.
Providing technical support for all Bionutrient Institute laboratories.
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“The Bionutrient Institute is a vehicle for changing the food system making quality an explicit agricultural outcome. Agriculture can be the change if we actually value quality, as well as our health and wellbeing as a species.”
Jill Clapperton, Ph.D. Principal Scientist, Boston Lab
Founder, Rhizoterra