Black Sheep Foods, a plant-based foods company focused on heritage breed meats and wild game, raised $5.25 million in seed funding.The startup last fall introduced its first product, a meat-free lamb alternative, on menus at Souvla, a Bay Area-based group of fast-fine Greek restaurants. Black Sheep’s team spent two years refining the product, using analytical chemistry to identify the key compounds that give lamb its complexity and distinctive gaminess. It used those patent-pending flavor compounds in a plant-based structure composed of pea protein.
A head jump into an empty pool – the myth of synthetic meat
Synthetic meat is a simple, artificially bred monoculture. There are no extra fat cells, delicate cartilages, which make the meat tasty. There is also a problem with such a prosaic element as...
