IFT First 2025: Hydrosome Labs boosts fermentation and beverage flavor with “ultrafine bubbles”
18 Jul 2025 | Hydrosome Labs
Bob Jacobs, president of Hydrosome Labs, walked us through the biotech firm’s science of ultrafine bubbles using water and how it enhances nutrient and flavor delivery in beverages. He told us the clean label technology improves the yield and speed of fermentation processes while removing the need for additives, aligning well with the current regulatory trends against dyes, fillers, and additives.
OK, we're live at IFT first.
I'm joined by Bob Jacobs from Hydrosome Labs.
Hi there.
Hi there.
So the first question is, can you explain hydrosome's core technology and how it improves ingredient functionality?
Yeah, absolutely.
So our core technology is based on the science of ultrained bubbles.
We're putting very, very tiny bubbles on the order of about 100 nanometers into liquids, and those bubbles are acting as.
Carriers of gasses and nutrients to cells to, you know, the human gut microbiome to all parts of kind of human anatomy that needs feeding by nutrients.
And then what are you focusing on this year and what are you hoping to get out of the show?
Yes, so our focus here is, you know, we're a startup, so we've got two things.
One is we're in the middle of our Series A fundraising round, so we're very interested in finding.
Partners and investors in the company, but more importantly, we're looking for customers to use the technology in both the fermentation space.
So one of the big applications for our technology is improving the yield and speed of fermentation, but also in food and beverage.
So there's lots of applications for ultrafine bubbles in improving emulsion stability, delivery of flavors in beverages, functional ingredients.
So it's really a platform technology that can have a lot of different applications.
And then how do you see regulatory considerations shaping the adoption of enhanced hydration and delivery technologies?
Yes, so actually our technology is a clean label technology, so it plays very into kind of the current regulatory environment where people are trying to get rid of dyes and fillers and additives.
We're just bubbles in water.
And so the benefit of that is we can, we can help companies get rid of fillers or permeation enhancers or other things that are there, to improve the strength of emulsions.
Our technology can do that with just water and, and essentially air.
Brilliant.
And then how is hydrotherm labs working to meet trends in health and wellness and clean label formulations?
Yeah, so clean label.
Is one of our biggest benefits.
We're able to take ingredients and deliver them naturally, basically through ultra fine bubbles in solutions, so there's no additives necessary, no emulsifiers necessary to strengthen emulsions.
So it really is a clean label solution for most of the people here.
And then what can we expect to see from hydro labs over the next year?
Yeah, so our focus right now is really on fermentation and we've got a huge pipeline of customers that are interested in seeing, you know, dramatic benefits in improving fermentation.
So we're going to be very focused there, but we have a really interesting study that came out in the food and beverage space on improving the gut microbiome and kind of like along the lines of fermentation, we've got a lot of, you know, microbes in our gut that need to be fed.
And we're finding that these bubbles can actually feed and improve the health of the gut microbiome, and we see that as a big area for our technology in the near future.
Brilliant, thank you.
Thank you.
