but professor andrea causa from the university of hohenheim has far different plans for the plants. they contain a substance that she needs for her research. that's yes this is the part you can eat the vegetable. is the root. the root contains a substance for storing glycogen cellulose and starch which we can turn into a base chemical compound for things like nylon pantyhose or bottles. of thank you floss in my. chicory roots are too bitter to eat apart from fermenting bio gas not much else can be done with them but that makes them ideal for andrea cool and her project. is looking as this is really the 1st time we've been able to produce this base chemical compound from chicory roots or other waste substances yes. this is the that's what's special. compound hydroxy methyl for for all is already commercially available but made using sugar in a rather dirty process we have a clean process and we're using something that isn't a food stuff which is important to us. in her university lab kusa spent over 5 years trying to find a suitable raw material. chicory is ideal because a substance