Plantible Foods: Plant protein that behaves like animal protein?
Plantible Foods – a San Diego-based startup producing protein concentrates from lemna - a fast-growing aquatic plant that can be harvested all year round – is extracting the protein [an enzyme called RuBisCO] via a multi-step, easily scalable mechanical process to produce a complete protein (PDCAAS score 1) that has many of the nutritional and functional attributes of egg white and a neutral taste, odor and color.
“We are all growing a very similar crop but our end product is very different," say its co-founders.
“Our mission has always been to find a plant-based protein that can really replace animal protein from a nutritional and functional perspective, and that’s what RuBisCO is. It’s a complete protein but it’s also allergen-free, and can also create foams like meringues, and is identical to what you’re getting from an egg white.”
