{"id":51509,"date":"2026-01-12T01:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/?p=51509"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:05:06","slug":"jux-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/2026\/jux-food\/","title":{"rendered":"65. JUX Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

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See our guide to this year’s hottest new businesses and most exceptional founders in the complete 2026 Startups 100 index<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n[vc_column_text]Founder<\/b>: Anna Wood
\nYear founded<\/b>: 2022
\nWebsite<\/b>: juxfood.com<\/a>\n

Cost, local accessibility, and perishability make eating fresh plants a daily challenge, says JUX Food founder Anna Wood. She started JUX Food to make it easier by creating freeze-dried vegetables, herbs, spices and super-foods.<\/p>\n

This technology means that the team can “capture the nutrients of fresh produce in a shelf-stable form, reducing spoilage in the supply chain and helping consumers to waste less”. They are essentially pressing pause on perishability, but without using heat dehydration or oil or vinegar – both of which detract from the taste.<\/p>\n

For Wood, the journey started when she hit burnout when working in the music industry. She grew up on a farm in Norfolk and this, perhaps, gave her insight into what would help in this situation; and that was good, fresh plant-based food. This was something she had neglected when she was working too hard and sleeping too little.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Wood came across freeze-drying technology when studying for a Masters at the University of Cambridge. She also delved into research that revealed how broken our food system is.<\/p>\n

“On the one hand, food waste is rife,” she explains. “One-fifth of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally. This amounts to one billion meals a day. Yet despite this, only one in ten in Europe eat their recommended portions of five a day.”<\/p>\n

The resulting waste has physical, mental and financial implications. The East of England-based Wood shares that poor diet costs the UK economy £74bn per year.[\/vc_column_text] <\/p>

\n \n \n <\/path>\n <\/g>\n <\/svg>\n One-fifth of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally. This amounts to one billion meals a day. Yet despite this, only one in ten in Europe eat their recommended portions of five a day. <\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n[vc_column_text]Wood launched the venture while heavily pregnant and came up against pushback when fundraising because of this. “But this just fuelled my ambition further,” she states. The business is now growing 338% year-on-year and partners include larger retailers like Tesco and Ocado, wholesalers like CLF, and hundreds of independents nationwide.\n

JUX Food has also won the custom of chefs James Martin, Steven Wallis and Elizabeth Haigh. Partnerships with Oddbox, Mindful Chef, and even Wild have strengthened the brand’s mission<\/a> to be eco-conscious and lifestyle-changing.<\/p>\n

Now claiming to be the UK’s fastest growing “herbs and spices” brand, keep an eye on your fridge; JUX Food hopes to be in every Brits’ kitchen in the next five years.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

View the full Startups 100 Index for 2026<\/h2>\n

1. Omnea<\/a>
\n2. HIVED<\/a>
\n3. MAGIC AI<\/a>
\n4. OXCCU<\/a>
\n5. Lightyear<\/a>
\n6. Neuranics <\/a>
\n7. Hormona<\/a>
\n8. Burbank<\/a>
\n9. Better Dairy <\/a>
\n10. Lenkie Technologies<\/a>
\n11. Userled<\/a>
\n12. Hoxton Farms<\/a>
\n13. Rensair<\/a>
\n14. PulpaTronics<\/a>
\n15. TradeKart<\/a>
\n16. 32Co<\/a>
\n17. Carmoola<\/a>
\n18. cheqd<\/a>
\n19. Sightline Climate<\/a>
\n20. Adamo Foods<\/a>
\n21. Bold Bean Co<\/a>
\n22. Beams Renovation <\/a>
\n23. Pan Galactic<\/a>
\n24. Capi Money<\/a>
\n25. Spotted Zebra<\/a>
\n26. ANTHROTEK <\/a>
\n27. Unravel<\/a>
\n28. Perci Health<\/a>
\n29. Untap Health<\/a>
\n30. Hair Syrup<\/a>
\n31. Connect Earth <\/a>
\n32. spacebands <\/a>
\n33. Unfabled<\/a>
\n34. Lightning Reach<\/a>
\n35. STOCKED<\/a>
\n36. Embeddable<\/a>
\n37. XR Therapeutics<\/a>
\n38. Literal Labs<\/a>
\n39. Scooch<\/a>
\n40. Openr<\/a>
\n41. Fibe Limited<\/a>
\n42. Inicio AI<\/a>
\n43. Peachies<\/a>
\n44. Better Nature <\/a>
\n45. Ctrl Alt<\/a>
\n46. Resting Reef<\/a>
\n47. Nila<\/a>
\n48. ROXFIT<\/a>
\n49. Finmile<\/a>
\n50. NavLive<\/a>
\n51. Volunteero<\/a>
\n52. Inntelo AI<\/a>
\n53. Zonova<\/a>
\n54. A&B Smart Materials<\/a>
\n55. Ethicronics<\/a>
\n56. Treeapp<\/a>
\n57. kennek<\/a>
\n58. Soil Benchmark<\/a>
\n59. Vox Aeris<\/a>
\n60. Asan Cup<\/a>
\n61. Nuuri<\/a>
\n62. Mindstone<\/a>
\n63. MYNDUP<\/a>
\n64. Enbiosis Biotechnology<\/a>
\n65. JUX Food<\/a>
\n66. Danu Robotics<\/a>
\n67. Wylde Market<\/a>
\n68. Air Aware Labs<\/a>
\n69. Mimicrete Ltd<\/a>
\n70. ALYVE<\/a>
\n71. Happl<\/a>
\n72. Living Things<\/a>
\n73. Grub Club Pets<\/a>
\n74. Mealia<\/a>
\n75. PetProov<\/a>
\n76. Lylo Products<\/a>
\n77. Chest<\/a>
\n78. ZIM Connections<\/a>
\n79. Uptime Labs<\/a>
\n80. Teal<\/a>
\n81. Zero Fintech<\/a>
\n82. Micro Thermal Energy <\/a>
\n83. Kanjo <\/a>
\n84. Merlin Cloud<\/a>
\n85. My Skin Feels<\/a>
\n86. Eleria<\/a>
\n87. Cashblack<\/a>
\n88. RevvedUp<\/a>
\n89. Cosysense<\/a>
\n90. SuperFi<\/a>
\n91. Loom<\/a>
\n92. Legacy Compass<\/a>
\n93. Meshed<\/a>
\n94. SWURF<\/a>
\n95. Main Squeeze<\/a>
\n96. Sampl Technologies<\/a>
\n97. Over the Moo<\/a>
\n98. Pioneering People<\/a>
\n99. Bikebook<\/a>
\n100. Recondition<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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