Benexia, based in Santiago Chile, specialises in the commercialisation and marketing of chia seed ingredients.
The development of Benexia’s XIA PURE Ox Blocker, a new, proprietary process technology significantly increases the stability its chia oil, ensuring the omega-3 oil has 100% product consistency, a longer shelf-life, is solvent free as well as GMO free.
“Chia oil contains more than 60% omega-3 ALA (alpha linolenic acid), a polyunsaturated fatty acid that makes it very healthy, but also very sensitive to oxidation,” explains Sandra Gillot, CEO of Benexia.
To address this issue, Benexia has successfully developed XIA PURE Ox Blocker technology to guarantee a longer product shelf-life, stable delivery of its nutraceutical properties and maintenance of its good taste and smell. This proprietary technology uses natural ingredients, bringing an excellent oxidative stability to the product while preserving its high-ORAC level of antioxidants (962 µmol/TE/100g).
“The technology allows Benexia to obtain a pure chia oil, with its full natural antioxidant levels, without risk of rancidity, a high fatty acid (ALA) stability, a great taste and exceptional nutrition,” adds Gillot.
Benexia offers superior quality, products and concepts based on chia, which are 100% natural, clean label, non-GMO, gluten-free.
The company’s production is vertically integrated enabling it to control the quality from farm to finished product in a sustainable and fully traceable manner.
It maintains its agricultural operations in Bolivia and Argentina, and its extraction operations in the North of Chile.
