A Finnish tech startup hopes to produce protein out of thin air and not much more, creating a plant-based product they can put into healthy drinks and yogurts or even turn into a meatless schnitzel, the company said.
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Solar Foods has received nearly 25 million euros ($30 million) in government and private funding to commercialize the product called Solein, a yellow flour-type ingredient containing some 65% protein manufactured in a miniature bioreactor inside a laboratory.
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The flour is ground from a liquid microorganism that is made out of carbon dioxide from air, electricity, water, microbes and nutrients.
In December, the company added 4.3 million euros from the Finnish government to funding earlier raised from private investment companies and Finnish baker and candy maker Fazer to commercialize Solein.
