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Future of Foods Interviews - Alt Proteins, Cell Agriculture, an End to Factory Farming.

Reinventing meat from Fungi and Mycelium - Libre Foods

Nov 27, 2023
Alan Ivan Ramos, CEO and founder of Libre Foods, discusses their mission to create nutritious and tasty meat alternatives from Fungi. They have a bacon product on the market and will be launching a Chicken product next year. The podcast explores the potential of fungi as a sustainable food source, challenges stigmas and misconceptions about mushrooms, and discusses the nutritional value and sensory experience of mushrooms as an alternative protein. Ramos emphasizes their strengths in R&D, agile development, and product delivery, as well as their focus on cracking the price element and scaling up to win over consumers.
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  • Libra Foods is using fungi to create low-cost, nutritious meat alternatives like bacon and chicken.
  • The use of fungi as an ingredient offers high fiber content, low fat, and a taste reminiscent of meat, making it a promising solution for future food products.

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Libra Foods: Reinventing Food from Fungi

Libra Foods, based in Barcelona, is a B2B whole solution provider of tech-enabled fungi-based food applications. They harness the potential of fungi to bring low-cost, nutritious, and highly functional food solutions to the market. Their first product, fungi-based bacon, has been well-received, and they are soon launching a mycelium-based chicken breast. The use of fungi as an ingredient offers high fiber content, low fat, and a taste reminiscent of meat, making it a promising solution for future food products.

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