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CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat

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285 points rguiscard | 2 comments | 12 Dec 25 00:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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SapporoChris ◴[12 Dec 25 03:23 UTC] No.46240533[source]▶
They've altered Fusarium venenatum which is currently what Quorn utilizes in its products. "The production process of gene-edited MP is more environmentally friendly than chicken meat and cell-cultured meat." That's good news, if they get to the point where it is more economically friendly than chicken meat it will be great news.
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Flere-Imsaho ◴[12 Dec 25 08:51 UTC] No.46242175[source]▶
I would love to eat meat free alternatives. Quorn gives me IBS. Same with the highly processed meat free "meat". Beans are my basic goto for protein plus eggs.
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Semaphor ◴[12 Dec 25 13:01 UTC] No.46243721[source]▶
Have you tried dehydrated granules from 90% pea protein, 10% jackfruit? It has no weird additional ingredients besides those two and for my wife and I has replaced ground beef except for burgers
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lukas099 ◴[12 Dec 25 15:40 UTC] No.46245140[source]▶
Where do you even get that? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it.
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Semaphor ◴[12 Dec 25 16:00 UTC] No.46245351[source]▶
I get the brand Lotao, but they are German (also available in UK IIRC). Our drug store DM also has a house brand of it. I assumed that if there are 2, there are probably more elsewhere ;)
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1. Flere-Imsaho ◴[12 Dec 25 16:39 UTC] No.46245786[source]▶
This one?

https://www.lotao.com/en/pages/english

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2. Semaphor ◴[12 Dec 25 17:00 UTC] No.46246020[source]▶
Yeah that's the one, I have it on subscription, 1kg/2 months (about 3kg of finished product)

But considering the simplicity of the product, I assume any brand will be very similar.