Moooove over: How single-celled yeasts are doing the work of 1,500-pound cows

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Cowless dairy is here, with the potential to shake up the future of animal dairy and plant-based milks

BERKELEY, Calif. — The first course was a celery root soup lush with whole milk. The last was a spice cake topped with maple cream cheese frosting, served with a side of ice cream. And then a latte with its fat cap of glossy foam. In all, a delicious lunch. Maybe a little heavy on the dairy.

Despite widespread acceptance of soy, oat and almond milk, U.S. consumers, even vegan ones, continue to be underwhelmed by plant-based cheese options: Mostly made of starch and oil, they often lack the flavor or texture of real cheese. And cheese is especially bothersome for the environment, more so than its liquid counterpart: Making one pound of cheese requires 10 pounds of cow’s milk.

Studying chemistry and bioengineering at Tufts, he’d gone vegetarian but still had a craving and taste for animal products. “Rather than using 22nd-century technology to produce meat, we’re using 20th-century technology to produce milk protein,” he said.There are bubbling stainless steel fermentation tanks, software that maintains temperatures, agitator motors and oxygenators.

Perfect Day, the first to market in the United States, is also partnering with Mars, Nestlé, Starbucks, Graeter’s and other companies to provide milk protein for products. Its office is a gleaming, multistory facility in an industrial part of Berkeley, Calif. that has become a locus for food and biotech start-ups.

 

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I'll stick to whole cows milk.

This story and fake cows milk has the potential to be forgotten by tomorrow morning.

I think I will just stick with my whole milk thank you very much.

With natural dairy-free probiotics

Let’s see how overprocessed it is

They really want to gve us this eventually

Pure Carbs. This is why so many people have diabetes eating this 💩

What's up with this fake milk crap?

I have a feeling this will go the way of the cowless meat industry. Hot to start then steadily fade into irrelevance

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