The Netherlands – The Protein Brewery, an innovative developer of plant-based, highly nutritious food ingredients, received regulatory approval by the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) to import, manufacture and sell food ingredients featuring Fermotein in Singapore.
The company’s hero product is Fermotein, a fermented fungi with a highly nutritious, healthy, and sustainable profile. The food ingredient is rich in fibre and protein and can be made of globally available, water efficient, non-allergenic crops such as corn, potatoes, cassava and sugar beet. This allows for commercialization around the globe on a local scale.
Reduced environmental impact
To provide a growing global population with healthy and nutritious food sustainably requires alternative ways to produce our food. More specifically, the production of animal protein is relatively inefficient in terms of land use and water consumption. Production of proteins by sugar fermentation reduces environmental impacts substantially. A life cycle assessment has shown that brewing Fermotein uses only 1% of land and 5% of water compared to the production of beef.
Additional markets
Besides the approval from SFA, The Protein Brewery has also secured the self-affirmed Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) status in the U.S. of the proposed use of a new fungi strain’s mycelium in human food. The company is also awaiting novel food authorization in other key markets such as the UK and the European Union.
