Change is coming in the dairy aisle
Change Foods – one of a new breed of startups making real dairy ingredients using microbes instead of cows – is setting up shop in California, with ambitions to launch its first consumer products (cheeses) in the US market in 2023.
The plan for the startup - which has just raised $875k in seed funding and hired Danone exec Irina Gerry as its CMO - is to “have test products for public consumption by the end of 2022, and then a retail launch some time in 2023,” says co-founder David Bucca, who says plant-based cheeses have gotten better over the years, but still don’t cut it when it comes to flavor and functionality.
“The nut- and legume-based products just don’t have the melt and stretch and mouthfeel of, say, American cheese you’d get in a burger.”
