Building a New Food System on Quality & Quantity

Our food systems produce more calories than society needs and are incentivized to yield the greatest quantity of food at the lowest possible cost. We have succeeded in optimizing a single outcome - a calorie rich world. But success has come at a huge toll: a global, multifaceted environmental and health crisis. 25%+ of global GHG emissions are generated from farm to fork and the negative impacts of agriculture, food production and land-use on climate cost us $3 trillion USD per year. Meanwhile, our current diets are responsible for a 70% increase in obesity affecting 1.5Bn people, and the costs of diet-related chronic diseases (heart disease, diabetes, cancer) amount to $13 trillion/year.

At Edacious, we believe food should be plentiful AND nutritious. As the impacts of yield-obsessed food production on human and environmental health become clear, the ability to measure nutrition as easily as we measure yield becomes critical. Why? There's mounting scientific evidence that the healthiest foods come from farming practices that are best for the planet and the most nutritious food is also the most flavorful and sustainable. Our vision is to shift the food system so it may better serve consumers, producers, and our planet and our mission is nutritional transparency.

Measure & Compare Food Quality Through a Nutrition & Climate Lens

Edacious is a multi-disciplinary technology company. We are chemists, designers, engineers, and systems-thinkers who believe that nutrition can be used as a lever to impact climate change at scale by accelerating the production and demand for healthier, climate-smart foods. To achieve this, we create novel analysis tools and generate actionable data for producers to understand the factors behind more nutritious food providing a roadmap to improve their operations and for buyers to know the nutritional quality of the food they purchase so they can make better decisions for their health, their wallets, and the environment.

Our laboratory science team is focused on building novel food datasets generated from mass spectroscopy instrumentation to enable the understanding of the true complexity & variability of food. The Chemist is responsible for contributing to the day-to-day operation of the lab. This includes, but is not limited to, using analytical instruments (LCMS, GCMS, ICP-MS) for the analysis of complex food matrices, performing routine laboratory maintenance, and assisting with background research and method development. The successful candidate will work closely with the lab group that consists of other laboratory technicians, chemists and scientists. To succeed in this role, you should thrive in a fast paced startup environment within a multidisciplinary team and enjoy being in the lab, analytical chemistry, delivering results in a timely manner and working on method development.