Mycorena: Fungi-based vegan protein challenging traditional plant-based ingredients
- Sweden
- 5 min read
- Apr 29, 2021
- By Emanuela Ferraro
© Mycorena
Award-winning Swedish biotech startup is scaling production of mycoprotein to become a key player in the emerging market for functional proteins
Swedish biotech startup Mycorena has developed a more sustainable fungi-based mycoprotein manufacturing process using waste discarded during industrial food production, such as excess flour and dough from baking or residues from dairy processing.
According to Mycorena, the manufacture of its main product Promyc, which is made from specific strains of a family of filamentous fungi, generates very little waste as all of the nutrients used in the fermentation process is consumed by the fungi. “This is a significant advantage over plant protein production where large amounts of by-pro...
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