Animal-free dairy: New Culture plans 2023 launch of Mozzarella – minus the cows New Culture – one of a cluster of startups in the emerging ‘animal-free’ dairy space engineering microbes to produce dairy milk proteins, without cows – is aiming to launch animal-free Mozzarella in late 2023.
While plant-based dairy products continue to improve, plant-based cheese presents particular formulation challenges, in part because it’s hard to replicate the functional qualities of casein, the protein in cow’s milk responsible for the ‘stretchy’ quality of cheese such as Mozzarella, claims
While some consumer products featuring animal-free whey protein are
already on the market, casein is more difficult to produce at scale via microbial fermentation, claimed Gibson, a new Zealander who moved to California to build New Culture (strapline: Cow cheese, without the cow ).