Startup venture Eden Brew is looking to have animal-free milk on supermarket shelvesThe company says worldwide demand for protein will double by 2050
"We believe that our final product will be so close it'll be very difficult to discern any difference." "It's less about replacing what's already here and it's more about augmenting supply, because we've got to make a lot more food really quickly," he said.Australia exported more than $700 million in skim and whole milk powders in 2019-20 according to the CSIRO, which has invested in Eden Brew through its main sequence innovation fund.
"It talks greatly to the strides that the Australian ecosystem is making, the profile that we've got and the science and the R&D standards that we are achieving. Milk and meat produced in a vat will not need the millions of hectares of pasture that dairy and beef cows need, and according to industry will use a fraction of the water.
"To deliver that milk taste, mouth feel, functionality and nutrition that cow's milk has is going to be quite a feat as well."Eden Brew expects to lodge an application with the food safety regulator for permission to sell the non-animal dairy products early next year.