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Company Is Making Vegan Casein From Peas

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Plant-based start-up Fooditive Group is utilizing peas through precision fermentation, to create vegan casein. 

This is with the end goal of eliminating industrial factory farming.

According to the corporation, it is the first vegan casein accessible for the food business.

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How can it make vegan casein?

The Dutch firm uses innovation to re-make the same protein formula found in cow’s milk while being “animal-free.” It does this by duplicating the DNA of the beta-casein in cow’s milk.

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Fooditive Group says the casein can be utilized to make vegan milk, cheddar cheese, yogurt, and meat.

Founder and CEO Moayad Abushokhedim uncovered: “Making healthy and affordable food for everyone means that we simply need to target every aspect of our diet, and animal-free products should definitely be a part of it. 

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“Delivering ingredients that have been produced sustainably is the main key to a long-lasting future that can support the growing human population.”

As of now, firms can sign up to join the “extensive” list of food developers keen to use the product.

Some of them are allegedly “big players in the dairy industry.”

Fooditive will carry out the vegan products in 2022 however has not yet affirmed a set date.

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The elimination of meat and dairy 

Precision fermentation might be a moderately new term, however, it’s as of now been named to explode the alternative protein space inside the decade.

For instance,  billionaire businessman Jim Mellon predicts it to cause the “end” to meat and dairy if we dispense more infrastructure to impel it.

“We already have the products. All we need is the scale, the money, and the will,” he claims.

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