Plant2Food Pitch session w. Tobias Harboe, Contempehrary
Join the Plant2Food online pitch sessions: "Can we produce Danish Rhizopus starter culture?"
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PLANT2FOOD PITCH SESSION
W. Tobias Harboe, Contempehrary
"More Danish food producers use Rhizopus (fungal spore) starter culture, but we import them from Indonesia or other places. The idea is to develop and secure a stable and safe production of the starter culture in Denmark. It will be beneficial for the development of mycelium-based foods in general. We need more research in this area, to figure out how it is done in the best, safest and most efficient way.
The exact way to use the starter culture to make tempeh and other fungi based products can vary. This is IP we each develop and often keep secret for reasons of competition. But starter culture(s) is a pre-competitive thing we could all benefit from collaborating on. At CONTEMPEHRARY we believe it would be a great advantage to establish a local production, so we don’t have to rely on import from afar."
NB: The pitch session will be recorded and made available online at Plant2Food on WorldLabs.