It looks like meat, tastes like meat and even bleeds like meat. An American biochemist and his team of more than 100 scientists in Redwood City, California, have done the impossible - creating a plant-based meat that tastes almost like the real thing.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
It looks like meat, tastes like meat and even bleeds like meat. An American biochemist and his team of more than 100 scientists in Redwood City, California, have done the impossible - creating a plant-based meat that tastes almost like the real thing.
Dr Patrick Brown, 64, chief executive and founder of Impossible Foods, started the company in 2011 to create meat and dairy products that would satisfy meat lovers and, at the same time, reduce the environmental impact caused by animal farming, especially the production of beef, which he calls"the single most destructive production process on earth".
The original Impossible Burger was made with wheat and potato protein but, in January, the company launched version 2.0, made with soya protein, so it is now also gluten-free, besides being free of hormones and antibiotics. He recruited a team of scientists to find out, offering them the chance to work on what he called"the most important scientific problem in the world".
To scale the production of heme, the team took the DNA of soya plants and implanted it into ge-netically engineered yeast. The yeast is fermented to produce large amounts of heme.
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