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Hybrid products to optimize nutrition, taste, cost, and sustainability
Hybrid products are a promising means to improve the cost and sustainability of animal-derived meat while improving the taste of plant proteins. Promoting the health benefits of hybrids may facilitate…
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Cultivated
Fermentation
Plant-Based
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Demand Generation
End Products
Production
R&D
Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
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End product formulation & manufacturing
Ingredient optimization
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Species-agnostic
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Academics
Industry
Investors
Startups
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Commercial
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Industry
Science
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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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Species-agnostic
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Academics
Industry
Investors
NGO’s
Startups
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Commercial
Research
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Industry
Science
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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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Ecosystem
Research
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Science
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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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Commercial
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Industry
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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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Research
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Science
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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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Research
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Industry
Science
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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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2 – Early adoption
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Ecosystem
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Industry
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Plants as a recombinant protein expression platform
Plants can serve as expression platforms similar to microorganisms used as recombinant protein hosts. This may require minimal processing into value-added ingredients, such as egg and dairy functional proteins. Plants…
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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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2 – Early adoption
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Commercial
Research
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Industry
Science
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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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1 – Inception
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Commercial
Ecosystem
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Industry
Science
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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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Research
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Industry
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