Air Protein and ADM join forces to commercially laungh landless proteins to make alt foods

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Protein

Air-Based Proteins Market to Exceed $100M: Highlighting 5 Prominent Players

The global air-based foods market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11.7% to reach a value of US$ 100 million by the end of 2032, as consumers and producers look increasingly towards sustainable proteins. According to FACT. MR, initially, air-based foods will gain popularity in North America and Europe, markets with growing demand for sustainable and eco-friendly food products as a solution to food production challenges. This technology, first used to feed humans in space, offers a promising solution to the extensive land use in animal agriculture that is driving species to extinction, eroding soils, and polluting water and airways. We take a look at five companies using cutting-edge technology to make proteins using microbes and air, known as air proteins, to move food production …

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Air Protein and ADM join forces to commercially laungh landless proteins to make alt foods

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Fermentation

Air Protein & ADM Partner to Bring Alt Meat Made With “Landless Protein” to Consumers

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and Air Protein are partnering to develop and launch consumer products using novel landless proteins.  The two parties have companies signed a strategic development agreement whereby ADM will provide researchers, ingredients knowledge, technologies, and strategies, to help Air Protein scale its protein ingredients platform for the development of new cost-effective and nutritious products, among them alt meats. The partnership also includes mutually exclusive rights for ADM and Air Protein to collaborate to build and operate a commercial-scale landless protein plant. A new protein to feed a growing population Players in the emerging field of air proteins include Finland’s Solar Foods, with its protein Solein, and Dutch startup Farmless, though Air Protein is arguably that with the highest profile. Co-founded by Lisa Dyson and John …

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Solar Foods Solein

Solein © Solar Foods

Investments & Finance

Solar Foods Signs €10M Investment Agreement for “Most Sustainable Protein in the World” Production 

Solar Foods – the food tech creating protein “from thin air” – has received a €10 million investment boost from the Pharmacy Pension Fund of Finland. The agreement will see investment in the Solar Foods’ Factory 01 facility which will house the first commercial Solein production line. Solein is Solar Foods’ innovative single-cell protein, made out of microbes cultured with electricity and air-captured carbon dioxide. The company claims its fully natural fermentation process is similar to the production of yeast, resulting in the purest and most sustainable protein in the world. Solein production will be scaled up at the Factory 01 facility, with the company estimating that commercialization will begin during the first half of 2023. The €10 million investment agreement comes from the Pharmacy …

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Dr. Lisa Dyson ©Air Protein

Interviews

Air Protein – Creating Meat Out Of Air — “We Have an Ultra-Sustainable, Clean Label Solution for the Future of Meat”

Last autumn, Air Protein created meat out of air. This astonishing company has pioneered a process of producing meat using the elements in the air, converting them into nutrients to form Air Protein flour; a complete protein that contains all nine essential amino acids and with an amino acid profile comparable to animal protein.

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Introducing the first air-based meat from Air Protein

Introducing the first air-based meat from Air Protein

Products & Launches

Air Protein Introduces The World’s First Air-Based Food

Air Protein™, the Bay-Area based company pioneering a new consumer category – air-based foods – today announced the creation of the first air-based meat created from elements found in air. The company says it is “establishing a new industry of sustainable food that solves growing global food demands without the need for arable land.”

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