Solar Foods, a company that uses electricity, water, and air to make food, says it plans to have 50 million meals’ worth of its product sold in supermarkets within two years, reports The Guardian. The Helsinki-based company produces Solein, a powder that can be given texture through 3D printing or added to dishes in food products as an ingredient.
“It is a completely new kind of food, a new kind of protein, different to all the food on the market today in how it is produced as it does not need agriculture or aquaculture,” says Dr. Pasi Vainikka, chief executive of Solar Foods. The company is also working with the European Space Agency to supply astronauts on a mission to Mars after devising a protein heavy product that looks and tastes like wheat flour. Full Story
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