Launched by Finnish food tech company, Solar Foods, Solein is said to be the most sustainable protein powder and is made from microbes, gases and water
It doesn't look particularly appetizing - a mustard yellow-hued powder with the texture of starch - but the ingredient that made its global debut in Singapore on Thursday is being touted as the latest breakthrough in food technology.
this is food that doesn t need vast fields itjust needs a warm, dark place to grow. this pilot project is turning 2kg of co2 into 1kg of powder every day, and the only by product is water, which is also recycled. we are building the bigger facility, which is in scale, it s100 times bigger. it would take roughly two years, and we also assume that getting a kind of eu novel food permit, it also takes two years. food technologist anna hakamies has been studying the structure, taste and nutritional value of solein to create new foods. so this is it, this is the raw solein powder. obviously you are not supposed to eat itjust like this because if you do. it tastes like. well, like floor. what would you have to do with this powder before you can
actually add it to food? solein can be used as an ingredient in meat replacing products, other non dairy products, and then also plant products, cereals and even pasta. i have been told that you have prepared something that is not the raw powder for me to eat. yeah, ice cream. ice cream! it is quite appetising, i have to say, garnished with a few petals. yeah, there s only four ingredients. like, solein, water, fat and sugar. it is very nice. it is actually more like a sorbet than an ice cream. it s italian gelato. i get paid to do this! the powder is 65% protein, so 2.5 times more than