Formulating With Animal-Free Ingredients
Novel protein sources hold the key to creating an innovative, appealing, and sustainable array of new meat, egg, and dairy alternatives.
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What are novel animal-free proteins? In looking at the space outside traditional animal-based proteins, novel protein sources fit into one of four categories from a production, cost, and infrastructure perspective: plants, non-animal cell culture, recombinant, and animal cell culture. The focus of this article encompasses the ingredients derived from plants, non-animal cell culture, and recombinant proteins, which together include the seeds of cereal and legume crops (plant proteins); forms of f…
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