Headquarters
Vitacura, Santiago, Chile — commercial, technical and regulatory teams.
Company
People passionate about nature, health and chia.
Since 2005, Benexia has done one thing completely: turn a single ancient seed into the world's most advanced chia ingredients — owning every step from the field to your facility.
Who we are
One crop, mastered completely.
Benexia is a Chilean, 100% chia-dedicated ingredients company. Where others source a commodity, we own the chain: a network of family-owned, regeneratively farmed fields across South America; one of the world’s most modern chia processing plants in Arica; and our exclusive MicroTech® milling that turns the whole seed into functional fiber and protein.
That vertical integration lets us deliver stable cold-pressed oil, neutral-tasting flours and full traceability — from a single field to your production line. Led by CEO Sandra Gillot, we have grown from a growers’ cooperative into a supplier of advanced chia ingredients to food, beverage and nutrition brands worldwide.
100% Chia-dedicated A single crop, mastered end to end
20+ Years of chia expertise Since 2005
10,000+ Hectares of chia farmland Under regenerative practices
#1 Largest chia grower worldwide By farmland under management
Our expertise
Seed to ingredient, under one roof.
Our expertise is full vertical integration of a single crop — four controlled steps from regenerative field to finished ingredient, so quality and traceability are ours to guarantee.
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Regenerative farming
Rain-fed chia grown across our partner fields in Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay — a network of family-owned farms under regenerative, zero-irrigation practices.
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Cleaning & natural sterilization
At our modern, food-grade Arica facility, seed is cleaned and sorted, then treated with our LM (Low Moisture) technology — a natural, chemical-free sterilization independently validated to a Log-5 reduction — for clean-label, ready-to-eat safety.
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MicroTech® milling
Our exclusive, solvent-free MicroTech® process reduces the seed into micro-particles — a particle-size distribution under 125 and 435 microns — creating XIA Fiber and XIA Protein with no enzymes, solvents or additives.
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Ingredient solutions & delivery
Cold-pressed oil, microencapsulated omega-3 and functional flours are documented, certified and delivered worldwide — fully traceable from field to facility.
Our story
Two decades, one seed.
- 1990s
Chia is identified as a promising alternative crop through the North Western Argentina Regional Project (NWARP), sponsored by the University of Arizona and the Argentinean Government.
- 2005
Benexia is born from a growers’ cooperative formed by independent growers, experts and scientists — quickly expanding from farming into the commercialization and industrial processing of chia.
- 2014
Benexia secures the first EU Novel Food authorization to commercialize chia oil, presented at Health ingredients Europe.
- 2017
Benexia opens its Lipids Research Center in Europe, partners with Taiyo for North American distribution, and joins GOED — The Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3.
- Today
A Certified B Corporation™ and the world’s single largest chia grower — more than 10,000 hectares under regenerative agriculture, fully traceable from field to facility.
Where we work
From the Andes to the world.
Three connected footprints — farms, factory and headquarters — form one continuous, traceable chain.
Processing
Arica, Chile — a modern, food-grade chia plant and home of MicroTech® milling.
Farms
A network of family-owned farms across Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay.
“To bring natural, healthy and sustainable chia products to consumers worldwide with a full commitment to our corporate social and environmental responsibilities.”Benexia — The world’s best quality chia seed producer
Let's build your next formulation with chia.
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