A New Startup Wants to Turn the Sugar You Eat Into Fiber

UK food tech startup Zya says it has developed an enzyme that can convert sugar into fiber.

The company hopes to get the enzyme approved by the US Food and Drug Administration .

The average American adult consumes two to three times the recommended amount of added sugar every day.

Zya has raised 4.1 million ( a little over $23 million ) in venture capital.

Kraft Heinz is working with the Wyss Institute at Harvard University to develop similar enzymes.

The enzymes are not listed on a food product’s nutrition facts panel, so companies developing them will need to work with regulatory experts on how to label foods that contain them and how to list them as ingredients.