Animal-Free Dairy Milk Set To Finally Hit US Retail Shelves

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Animal-Free Dairy Milk Set To Finally Hit US Retail Shelves


A new kind of milk will soon hit US shelves but it isn't some plant-based product designed to resemble dairy milk. Instead it is made from whey proteins produced by microflora engineered to spit out exactly the same proteins found in milk from a cow. The unique cow-free milk is the first product from Betterland foods, a new company looking to create novel and sustainable food products. Betterland is working on the cow-free milk with Perfect Day, a company formed in 2014 by two vegans looking to find a way to produce tastier animal-free dairy products.

Perfect Day's big innovation was identifying whey protein as the key element in dairy products that could only be produced by an animal. Every other element could be found elsewhere. So Perfect Day scientists engineered a type of fungus to produce cow whey proteins through a process called precision fermentation. Creating a cow-free whey protein is only the first step in the journey to getting novel animal-free dairy products to supermarket shelves. A series of ice creams using the whey proteins were the first products using Perfect Day's proteins to reach commercial shelves, but according to Ryan Pandya, co-founder of Perfect Day, a cow-free dairy milk was always the main goal.
 

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Oatmilk for me:wow:

I'm embarrassed to say that I only just discovered oatmilk last year. Cheap, healthy, I like the taste, and it's a million times better for the environment. I like the taste of almond milk just fine (and environmentally it's still far better than cows) but the water burden of almonds is incredible in California and is helping tear the state apart in the water wars.

A single couple's business empire is using more water than every household in Los Angeles combined and their almond business is a big part of that:

Meet the California couple who uses more water than every home in Los Angeles combined
 
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Animal-Free Dairy Milk Set To Finally Hit US Retail Shelves


A new kind of milk will soon hit US shelves but it isn't some plant-based product designed to resemble dairy milk. Instead it is made from whey proteins produced by microflora engineered to spit out exactly the same proteins found in milk from a cow. The unique cow-free milk is the first product from Betterland foods, a new company looking to create novel and sustainable food products. Betterland is working on the cow-free milk with Perfect Day, a company formed in 2014 by two vegans looking to find a way to produce tastier animal-free dairy products.

Perfect Day's big innovation was identifying whey protein as the key element in dairy products that could only be produced by an animal. Every other element could be found elsewhere. So Perfect Day scientists engineered a type of fungus to produce cow whey proteins through a process called precision fermentation. Creating a cow-free whey protein is only the first step in the journey to getting novel animal-free dairy products to supermarket shelves. A series of ice creams using the whey proteins were the first products using Perfect Day's proteins to reach commercial shelves, but according to Ryan Pandya, co-founder of Perfect Day, a cow-free dairy milk was always the main goal.
When is the IPO?
 

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I'm embarrassed to say that I only just discovered oatmilk last year. Cheap, healthy, I like the taste, and it's a million times better for the environment. I like the taste of almond milk just fine (and environmentally it's still far better than cows) but the water burden of almonds is incredible in California and is helping tear the state apart in the water wars.

A single couple's business empire is using more water than every household in Los Angeles combined and their almond business is a big part of that:

Meet the California couple who uses more water than every home in Los Angeles combined
I’ve only ever had oak milk in coffee but I don’t get it the hype to be honest. Then again, I’m lactose intolerant and just drink lactaid milk most of the time.
 

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Isn’t it less healthy than just regular lactaid milk? I thought this was just some hipster shyt.
not sure how you're judging healthy, if by calories/fat, well there are fat free, low fat and full fat oat milks which changes things there. but me avoiding diary milk is about both not liking it and getting the bubble guts from it lol.
 
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