Real dairy proteins. minus the cows: Industry-funded consumer study shows openness to animal-free cheese
The Formo team (picture credit: Formo) A global consumer study funded by ‘animal-free’ dairy startup Formo (previously LegenDairy) suggests consumers are surprisingly open to trying and buying cheese featuring dairy proteins made via microbes instead of cows after reading a detailed description of the technology. However, the authors acknowledge it’s hard to predict how shoppers will respond to such products in real-world settings.
While it s been around for a while, plant-based cheese has only captured a tiny fraction of the market because products still don t deliver for many consumers, who would like to make more sustainable or ethical choices, but aren’t willing to compromise on taste or performance, claim players in the emerging animal-free dairy segment.
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LOS ANGELES, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Brave Robot Ice Cream, launched by The Urgent Company, announced today that it will be the first dairy ice cream in U.S. grocery stores to publish its carbon footprint on packaging. The company is ahead of its industry in responding to retailers and consumers demand for more sustainable, great tasting options with smaller environmental footprints.
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As part of The Urgent Company s mission to deliver more planet-friendly alternatives, the brand is conducting an independent Life Cycle Assessment. The initial findings of that study show that the absolute carbon footprint for its ice cream pint is 0.76 kgCO2e, or the equivalent of driving 1.9 miles in a passenger car (EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator). The product s low carbon footprint (approx. 34% lower when compared to traditional dairy ice cream) is, in part, made possible by its use of animal-free whey protein from Perfe
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Brave new ‘animal-free’ world: When animal products are no longer made from animals, what do we call them? (And are they vegan?) By Elaine Watson
Picture: GettyImages-Artis777 Thanks to advances in synthetic biology, with the right set of instructions, an army of microscopic little food factories (yeast, fungi, bacteria, algae etc) can now make animal proteins without animals, from collagen and egg albumin to whey protein if you feed them sugar and put them in a fermentation tank. But what do we call them? And are they vegan?
It’s a question that companies in this emerging ‘precision fermentation’ space have been wrestling with since day one (
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