Posted on 11/30/2021 8:09:38 AM PST by mylife
Barcelona-based biotech company Libre Foods has announced its first foray into the world of fungi-based whole-cut meats, with an animal-free bacon designed to captivate meat eaters. Having showcased the rashers at a private tasting event in Barcelona, feedback is being used to push commercial roll-out in early 2022.
Libre Foods has announced a fungi-based bacon product created using fermentation (precision) technology. It is designed to meet the growing EU demand for pork, currently a $53 billion industry, that offers an alternative to the disadvantages of commercial pig farming. The fungi bacon was unveiled to investors and food-tech community members at Libre Haus in Barcelona last week.
Founder and CEO Alan Iván Ramos told Green Queen Media: “Libre exists out of impact. Not many people know this, yet pork is the second-largest market category globally behind beef and the sole largest in Europe. Moreover, bacon is often the product that meat-eaters refuse to give up. We’re out to change that, starting with our Libre Bacon.”
Bacon first, steak to follow With a successful pre-seed round closed earlier this year, which saw Sustainable Food Ventures and Good Seed Ventures coming onboard, Libre Foods has been pressing ahead with creating animal-free proteins. In April, Green Queen reported that Libre Foods was hoping to develop a whole-cut beef steak using fungi fermentation technology, but the company has pivoted to bacon after developing a deeper understanding of the intricacies at play.
“We realised just how complex a steak really was, so we want to take all the right steps to make sure that we do it well, focusing on all the learnings we obtain from our initial pipeline to bring them all together for our signature product, our Libre Steak,” said Ramos.
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Fungi is a lot healthie than the crap in Beyond Meat.
Impossible bacon and steak. That’s because it is impossible to call fungi bacon or steak
They will never get the texture right. Flavor is simple.
Mushroom walks into a bar, orders a Jack and coke. Bartender says “I’m sorry, we don’t serve mushrooms in here.” Mushroom says “Why not? I’m a Fun Gi.”
Plant-based meat sales do a face-plant
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Just eat bacon. Problem solved.
One wonders: there are so many vegan products that claim to taste like a burger, a steak, bacon, etc. Why are there no meat-based products that claim to taste like broccoli, asparagus, spinach, etc?
“fungi-based whole-cut meats”
Fungi is not a meat at all, much less “whole-cut meat”. Why haven’t these companies been bankrupted for violating truth-in-advertising laws?
:)
I'm going to go out on a limb and say 'no?'
Not hard, they beat us with fake meat daily.
That’s not bacon. That is a processed fungal glop.
Because we are not deranged?
What's next, soylent green?
From my cold dead hands u can take my bacon.
Why eat bacon and eggs when you can eat deli ham and eggs?
ping
Mushroom-based, in other words.
I love mushrooms.
I’d try it. But not for the reasons the vegan-heads want.
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