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Affordable animal-free omega-3 ingredients for alternative seafood and other alternative protein applications
In order to appeal to health-conscious consumers, alternative seafood products should contain similar omega-3 fatty acids, especially DHA and EPA, content to conventional seafood. Animal-free omega-3 ingredients can be expensive…
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Fermentation
Plant-Based
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Investment
Production
R&D
Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
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Bioprocess design
Crop development
Host strain development
Ingredient optimization
Target molecule selection
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Seafood
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Industry
Investors
Startups
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Novel methods for long-chain omega-3 fatty acid production
As the alternative seafood industry scales up, a low-cost and abundant source of long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids will become necessary. Several means of producing these compounds have been investigated…
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Fermentation
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R&D
Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
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Bioprocess design
Host strain development
Ingredient optimization
Target molecule selection
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Seafood
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Academics
Industry
Startups
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Preventing oxidation of omega-3 fatty acids before and after addition to alternative seafood products
Deeper fundamental knowledge of the causes and prevention of oxidation of omega-3 fatty acids before, during, and after addition to alternative seafood products is needed to improve their nutritional and…
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Cultivated
Fermentation
Plant-Based
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End Products
Investment
Production
R&D
Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
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Bioprocess design
Crop development
End product formulation & manufacturing
Host strain development
Ingredient optimization
Target molecule selection
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Seafood
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Academics
Industry
Investors
Startups
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Understanding uptake and interconversion of omega-3 fatty acids by cultivated fish cells
Although fish are one of the best dietary sources of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids (FAs), these compounds are mostly bioaccumulated from a fish’s diet rather than synthesized de novo. Consistent…
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Cultivated
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R&D
Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
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Cell culture media
Cell line development
Host strain development
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Seafood
Seafood-relevant
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Academics
Industry
Startups
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Scaffolding development for culinary and biomechanical requirements of cultivated seafood
A number of published studies have focused on scaffolds for cultivated meat (see Related Efforts) yet, to our knowledge, no studies have specifically attempted to formulate scaffolds for fish or…
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Cultivated
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R&D
Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
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Cell line development
Scaffolding
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Seafood
Seafood-relevant
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Academics
Industry
Startups
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“Rainbow roll 2.0” as a showcase product for cultivated seafood
Thin sheets of cultivated fish for layering on the outside of maki rolls and other sushi products could be an attractive market-entry commercial product. Producing thin sheets of tissue is…
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Cultivated
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End Products
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End product formulation & manufacturing
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Seafood
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Startups
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Decision matrix for seafood target species selection
Creating an online, open-access decision matrix tool that ranks popular seafood-relevant species against each other based on several criteria such as market size, per-unit price, sustainability of conventional production practices,…
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Cultivated
Fermentation
Plant-Based
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Demand Generation
End Products
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Seafood
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Academics
GFI
NGO’s
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