Alt Fats

Consumer research suggests that most consumers find Sun Bear Biofuture's yeast-derived cocoa butter substitute equivalent to or better than the conventional fat. In a major validation of the burgeoning microbial fat industry, a majority…
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UK food tech startup MicroLub has raised £7.5M ($10M) to fuel its US and Asia expansion with a technology that replaces fats with microgels made from proteins and water. Can water solve the obesity epidemic? As Brits take to GLP-1…
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Estonia's Äio and Tilk are building on their collaboration with their second product, a skin-boosting face cream that uses two of the former's upcycled yeast-derived fat alternatives. Two Estonian startups have launched a face cream…
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Australian fermentation startup Nourish Ingredients has teamed up with SD Guthrie to expand production of its dairy-free fat, Creamilux, in Europe, with an eye toward reaching hundreds of tonnes annually over time. As it works to close…
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The Estonian government has pumped nearly €2M in funding for Äio and TFTAK to build a digital biomanufacturing platform that can turn food and wood industry waste into planet-friendly fats. Estonian biotech company Äio and applied…
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Dutch startup Time-Travelling Milkman has changed its name to TTM Ingredients to reflect its future ambitions as a supplier of dairy fat alternatives made from sunflower seed oleosomes. Six years after its inception, Dutch food tech…
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US food tech startup Savor asked scientists to independently verify the climate gains from its carbon-derived fats, which were found to lower emissions by 50-98%. Savor's agriculture-free fats dramatically slash the climate footprint of…
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US startup C16 Biosciences has launched its first food ingredient, a precision-fermented cocoa butter, while expanding its portfolio of yeast-derived fats for the beauty industry. After making waves in the beauty and personal care space…
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Canadian food tech company Botaneco is using a water-based oleosome platform to produce superior plant-based fats that rival dairy and conventional supply-strained options. Could water be the key that unlocks the potential of…
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Singaporean food tech startup ImpacFat has teamed up with M3triq to use AI-powered ingredient discovery to fast-track the commercialisation of its cultivated omega-3 fish fat. The convergence of food tech and artificial intelligence…
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A new analysis suggests that waste-fermented microbial lipid alternatives to fats like palm oil and animal fats can already compete with premium cocoa butter on cost. The alternative fat space has been heating up rapidly over the last…
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Swedish precision fermentation startup Melt&Marble has debuted Marble7, its animal-free "designer fat" for the beauty and personal care sector. Months after securing clearance for the global sale of its precision-fermented fat,…
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US alternative fat startup Savor has closed a $32M funding round, with participation from AAK, which has signed a deal to develop dairy alternatives and bakery applications with the former's carbon-derived fats. Californian food tech…
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Finnish food tech startup Perfat Technologies has launched Perfat Soft, a sunflower-oil-based oleogel that can replace butter and palm oil across a range of applications. Entering the flourishing fat-alternative space, Helsinki-based…
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A bipartisan bill from the US House of Representatives is aiming to restrict the labelling of a carbon-derived butter developed by Savor, which ascribes the measure partly to a "misunderstanding" of its technology. Congress members from…
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UK biotech firm Sun Bear Biofuture has completed the first run of its yeast-derived cocoa butter alternative in a setup that costs less than 10% of the industry standard. British startup Sun Bear Biofuture is out to prove that precision…
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Californian label Tower 28 Beauty has debuted a lip jelly featuring C16 Biosciences's Palmless Torula Oil, a yeast-derived substitute for palm oil. Yeast in your lip care? That is now a reality thanks to a new collaboration between a…
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Mars Petcare has launched another edition of its global pet food innovation programme for sustainable proteins and fats, with an amplified focus on Asia-Pacific. The market for sustainable pet food solutions has never been hotter. …
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Clean Food Group has raised £4.5M ($6.1M) in new funding, alongside a £700,000 ($950,000) grant from the UK government, to expand production of its sustainable yeast-derived fats. UK biotech startup Clean Food Group has brought on new…
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US startup Checkerspot has launched a fermentation-derived algal oil for personal care and cosmetics applications, as part of a collaboration with La Fabrique Végétale. Betting on the personal care industry's expanding embrace of…
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Estonian startup Äio has debuted its upcycled, sustainable fat alternative, RedOil, in a skin-boosting serum created with personal care brand Tilk. Accelerating the drive to phase out harmful tropical and petroleum-based oils from the…
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