Food Innovation

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In addition to the pork product, looks like they have one for dairy, and also a nutritional oil product (see below).

I'll have to do more research on MLEC. It sounds like the main goal of producing these animal proteins from plants is to better mimic the flavor of the real animal based food (compared to other plant based versions of meat). But as I understand it, it's mainly the fat content of animal derived meat that gives it the desired flavor. So without that fat aspect, I'm not sure how/why the MLEC approach by itself should be expected to produce a better flavor (?) MLEC's approach to producing animal proteins does avoid the many downside aspects and costs of the traditional livestock approach, but why should their protein taste any different than other plant derived proteins (if the flavor comes from the fat content side)?

A broader question is on the nutritional side - whether animal protein is inherently more nutritious than plant protein, or are they basically interchangeable from a nutritional standpoint? With the 'anti meat' bias these days, it's harder to get an objective answer to some of these questions. Even my nutritional 'guru' Dr. Steve Gundry seems to have a bias against animal protein. On the nutrition side, while the individual amino acids that comprise animal and plant proteins may be identical, obtaining the protein from an animal provides other essential components like vitamin B-12, which plants don't produce. So, the inescapable conclusion is that we are designed by nature to eat animal derived meat. Anyway, this is an interesting topic.


>>> Moolec Science SA (MLEC), a science-based food ingredient company, focuses on developing real animal proteins in plants using molecular farming. It offers Chymosin SPC, a dairy ingredient; GLA SONOVA, a nutritional oil; POORK+, a plant-based, animal meat free ingredient with porcine proteins in soybeans; and BEEF+, a meat replacement product. It operates in the United States, Europe, and South America. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Luxembourg. <<<



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