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Animal ingredient substitution
Enabling easy animal ingredient substitutions in a wide range of food products.
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Cultivated
Fermentation
Plant-Based
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End Products
R&D
Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
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End product formulation & manufacturing
Ingredient optimization
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Seafood-relevant
Species-agnostic
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Academics
Industry
Investors
NGO’s
Startups
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Plant-based protein makerspaces
Plant-based protein makerspaces would be publicly available spaces where interested members of the public could learn, experiment, and work collaboratively on projects related to plant-based proteins. They could offer access…
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Plant-Based
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R&D
Workforce
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Crop development
End product formulation & manufacturing
Ingredient optimization
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Species-agnostic
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Academics
Donors
GFI
Industry
NGO’s
Startups
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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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Open-access product formulation specification sheets
Open-access product formulation specifications could provide clear metrics and objectives for product developers on attributes like taste, price, nutrition, and ingredient ratios.
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Fermentation
Plant-Based
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End Products
R&D
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End product formulation & manufacturing
Ingredient optimization
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Species-agnostic
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GFI
Industry
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Plants as a recombinant protein expression platform for functional food ingredients
Crop plants used as recombinant protein production hosts could offer benefits of minimal processing, cheaper equipment, and fewer downstream purification costs.
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Fermentation
Plant-Based
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Production
R&D
Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
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Crop development
Ingredient optimization
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Species-agnostic
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Academics
Industry
Startups
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Forging product development partnerships among ingredient suppliers and manufacturers
Opportunities exist to coordinate product development partnerships between ingredient suppliers, strategic partners, and product manufacturers to directly engage more holistically on product formulation.
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Cultivated
Fermentation
Plant-Based
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End Products
Production
Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
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Cell culture media
Crop development
Feedstocks
Ingredient optimization
Scaffolding
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Species-agnostic
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GFI
Industry
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Fat and moisture encapsulation techniques for alternative protein applications
Plant-based, fermentation-derived, and cultivated products will all require solutions for encapsulating fat and moisture to ensure that these components are protected from damage or loss throughout manufacturing, storage, and preparation.
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Cultivated
Fermentation
Plant-Based
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End Products
R&D
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Ingredient optimization
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Seafood-relevant
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Academics
Industry
Startups
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Plant-based ingredient analytical and characterization service
Plant-based food manufacturers often struggle with batch-to-batch ingredient inconsistency and variability between suppliers. Better analytical tools for predicting plant-based ingredient performance could improve manufacturing efficiency and create more transparent ingredient…
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Plant-Based
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Compliance
End Products
Investment
Production
R&D
Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
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Crop development
End product formulation & manufacturing
Ingredient optimization
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Species-agnostic
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Academics
Industry
Investors
Startups
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