A Climate-Conscious Mooncake Collection

A Mid-Autumn Tradition Reimagined to Be Truly Good For the People & Planet

2025

Tradition tastes better when it’s made mindfully.

In celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival, we collaborated with sustainable artisan bakers resavour on a climate-conscious celebration: a duo of bunny-shaped mooncakes crafted from all natural ingredients and enriched with brewers’ spent grain. The mooncakes, Classic Lotus Constellation and Almond & Apricot Abundance, were baked locally by resavour, ensuring minimal carbon footprint. We wrapped these bunny-shaped mooncakes (a nod to the Jade Rabbit) in recyclable wooden boxes, and created content to illustrate how a festival like Mid-Autumn Festival that is often waste-producing, can be reimagined to be more sustainable under the luminous, full harvest moon.

Upcycling food waste, like brewers’ spent grains, is one of the most effective methods to boost food availability – it cuts down on our waste and carbon emissions.

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01 What are Brewer's Spent Grains?

Breweries use grains like malt and barley to make beer. Part of the process involves mashing, to turn starch into sugar. The leftover grains are spent grains.
02 What is upcycling?

Upcycling is taking food that would otherwise go to waste and turning it into something valuable, tasty, and nourishing.
03 Why upcycle? Aren't they spent?

After being used for brewing beer, spent grains are still nutrient-dense, packed with fibre and protein. They’re too good to go to waste.
04 Other incorporations of spent grains

Brewers’ spent grain is a significant byproduct that is increasingly being repurposed for new uses. They can be upcycled in bread, muffins, cookies, granola, energy balls and bars, cereals, pasta, even dog treats and more.
05 Why do we care?

Food waste is real, and something within everyone’s control. At least 20,000 tonnes of spent grains are generated in Singapore every year. If we’re able to prevent them from going to waste, why shouldn't we?