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Food & agriculture · 2016

Heme plant-based meat

The Impossible Burger used yeast-made soy leghemoglobin to make plants bleed and taste like beef.

Impossible Foods launched in 2016, producing heme protein by engineered yeast fermentation. Precision fermentation of animal proteins has since spread to dairy whey and egg proteins.

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