Engineering biology for animal-free cheese protein production

无动物奶酪蛋白生产的工程生物学

• 批准号: 10072795
• 金额: $ 6.37万
• 依托单位: FERMENTATION TECHNOLOGIES LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10072795
• 关键词: Engineering; biology; animal; free; cheese

Plant-based cheese is important. In the UK, we produce over 500,000 tons of dairy cheese per year. However, dairy farming produces a lot of methane, which is a highly harmful greenhouse gas.As a result, people are changing what they eat, with more people adopting animal-low, or animal-free diets. Food companies are developing more and more plant-based products to meet this need, like plant-based cheese.There's a challenge in producing enough of the right proteins for animal-free products. Current systems for doing this are expensive to build and operate. Fermtech are an Oxford-based biotech start-up developing an ultra low-cost way to produce animal-free proteins to do the job. The technology harnesses the power of fungi, grown on waste biomass as a feedstock, creating a circular economy, and keeping costs low.This project will allow us to test how this production system can be developed for commercial-scale production, taking the first step to getting great-tasting, low-carbon, animal-free dairy products on supermarket shelves quickly.

植物奶酪很重要。在英国，我们每年生产超过50万吨的乳制品奶酪。然而，奶牛养殖会产生大量的甲烷，这是一种非常有害的温室气体。因此，人们正在改变他们的饮食，越来越多的人采用低动物或无动物的饮食。食品公司正在开发越来越多的植物性产品来满足这一需求，比如植物性奶酪。目前用于这样做的系统的建造和操作是昂贵的。Fermtech是一家位于牛津的生物技术初创公司，正在开发一种超低成本的方法来生产无动物蛋白质来完成这项工作。该技术利用真菌的力量，以废弃生物质为原料，创造循环经济，并保持低成本。该项目将使我们能够测试如何将这种生产系统开发为商业规模生产，迈出第一步，让美味，低碳，无动物的乳制品快速上架超市货架。