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For example, a plant-based food into alternative seafood totaling $116 million, surpassing 2020’s total investments.
company from Denmark uses fermentation More than 87 companies now make seafood from plants, microbes, and animal cells, and
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to achieve a dairy-like taste in its multi- leading plant-based manufacturers are expanding their seafood SKUs. In 2022, expect
ingredient plant-based milk, and Israeli plant-based seafood options to expand in restaurants, grocery stores, and online
company harnesses microorganisms to marketplaces.
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add taste and nutrition to its plant-based Cultivated Meat is expected to receive further regulatory approvals and
steaks. launch in restaurants As of January 2022, the only nation to approve the sale of
The technology toolkit is 4cultivated meat is Singapore. In December 2020, Singapore granted regulatory
expanding Alternative proteins for approval to cultivated chicken . In 2022, more consumers may get their first taste of
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2a variety of processes can replace cultivated meat and seafood products.
animal protein production, including the
three main platforms: plant-based,
fermentation, and cultivated meat. In 2022,
the lines between these different
production platforms will become blurrier
as products are increasingly hybridized.
For example, a plant-based burger made
with fermentation-derived heme. Many
plant-based milk and cheese companies
are using traditional fermentation
techniques on nuts and other plant-based
ingredients to get that authentic sharp and
creamy dairy taste of conventional cheese.
In this year, we may see cultivated meat
products launched as blends with plant
protein ingredients, both to lower costs and
appeal to consumers who are looking for
nutritional features like fiber.
In addition, the emergence of innovative
new processes was occurred, such as
plant molecular farming (PMF), which uses
plants as recombinant protein production
hosts to produce ingredients that
traditionally only exist in animal products.
The process is similar to precision
fermentation but uses plants instead of
bacteria or fungi as cell factories. For
example, cheese and other dairy products
manufactured from plant-derived dairy
proteins mix casein protein made through
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PMF with plant ingredients to create
plant-derived cheese that matches the
stretchiness, meltiness, and taste of
animal-derived cheese. A food-tech
company that produces plant-based meat
and dairy substitutes uses artificial
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intelligence to find new combinations of
plant ingredients to replicate the taste of
animal foods.
Plant-based product categories
continue to diversify and reach
3higher fidelity to animal products
Plant-based products can be divided into
several categories like seafood, meat,
bacon and pepperoni, eggs, and milk. The
first half of 2021 saw record investments

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