A table of freshly prepared meals

Our story

We are a food technology company that has made the most significant breakthrough in food preservation in 160 years.

TAPS Global began in a kitchen, not a laboratory. Our founders were making real food - cooked from scratch, meant to nourish - and running into the same wall everyone in food eventually hits: it does not last long enough to reach everyone who needs it.

You can freeze it and lose the texture. You can can it and lose the taste. You can preserve it and lose the label. For 160 years, those were the only options, and every one of them asked the food to give something up.

So we went looking for a fourth answer, and found it visible in plain sight - leveraging turmeric, a spice that has been quietly doing this work in kitchens for thousands of years. Ten years of research, over $2.5 million of the founders' own money, a granted US patent, an NSF research award, and independent labs later, food made with TAPS™ came out of a refrigerator at day 500 tasting like day one.

Today we are a licensing company by design. We build no factories. We provide our science to the people who already make, move and process the world's food, so the change happens on the lines that already exist - and reaches people faster.

What we believe

Four commitments we hold ourselves to

Honesty about the boundary

We say what is proven and what is not. Our results are under refrigerated cold chain, and we do not claim shelf-stable today.

Food first, science second

If a technology changes how food tastes, it has failed. Every decision is judged at the table.

Build on what exists

We do not ask anyone to replace their plant. The installed base of equipment is our route to scale.

Feed people who get missed

Patients, students, families, and people in crisis are not an afterthought market. They are why the work matters.

The team

Scientists, operators, and people who have fed a lot of people

General John Michel
Chief Executive Officer

USAF (Ret.); commanded NATO's Afghan Air Force program; founder of Soulcial Kitchen, which served 380,000+ meals.

Priya Ranjan Dass
Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Inventor of record for TAPS™; NSF SBIR principal investigator; MBA, Ross School of Business.

Matthew Sheppard
Chief Operating Officer

Leads operations and commercial execution across licensing partners.

Raj Pandey
Head of Business Development

Co-Founder & CEO of Fresh N Fast HPP Inc.; deep high-pressure processing operating experience.

Rajan Gosain
Head of Manufacturing

Production, quality systems, and validated protocol rollout.

Navnita Dass
Co-Inventor of Record

Formulation science behind the turmeric bioactive blend.

Ritu Gosain
Head of Innovation

New food matrices, culinary development, and recipe integration.

Sanjay Tiwari
Director, Data & Analytics

Shelf-life data, validation records, and quality analytics.

Advisor: Mike Rizkalla. Patent counsel: Cygnet IP Law. Scientific review board in formation.

Come build the shelf life revolution with us.

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