In a major breakthrough for vegan cheese, artificial intelligence helped Climax Foods uncover a plant source of casein—the protein responsible for many functional qualities in dairy.
The article is science journalism at its worst. As a person with a background in biochemistry I can’t tell you what they mean from the article. A plant based source of casein is likely to be a homolog, not the same thing, and there’s no way they’re actually making something “molecularly identical” to cheese. What they mean, I think, is that a plant-based casein source should be able to make cheese-like foods behave more like cheese in terms of mouth feel and melting properties. Then because they’re writing sensationally they have to say bullshit like “nolecularly identical” for some reason.
I don’t know what the crossreactivity would be for plant based caseins. If you have a serious CMP allergy you might want to get help from an allergist before trying this stuff.
It’s just an ad to hype up stocks and funding for another unnecessary luxury product that enriches capitalists who have a history of testing on animals while making the general public think veganism is for rich white ppl
The article is science journalism at its worst. As a person with a background in biochemistry I can’t tell you what they mean from the article. A plant based source of casein is likely to be a homolog, not the same thing, and there’s no way they’re actually making something “molecularly identical” to cheese. What they mean, I think, is that a plant-based casein source should be able to make cheese-like foods behave more like cheese in terms of mouth feel and melting properties. Then because they’re writing sensationally they have to say bullshit like “nolecularly identical” for some reason.
I don’t know what the crossreactivity would be for plant based caseins. If you have a serious CMP allergy you might want to get help from an allergist before trying this stuff.
It’s just an ad to hype up stocks and funding for another unnecessary luxury product that enriches capitalists who have a history of testing on animals while making the general public think veganism is for rich white ppl