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Real dairy proteins... minus the cows: Industry-funded consumer study shows openness to animal-free cheese The Formo team (picture credit: Formo) A global consumer study* funded by ‘animal-free’ dairy startup Formo (previously LegenDairy) suggests consumers are surprisingly open to trying and buying cheese featuring dairy proteins made via microbes instead of cows after reading a detailed description of the technology. However, the authors acknowledge it’s hard...

LegenDairy Foods is rebranding as Formo, a consumer-facing brand positioned at the forefront of cultivated dairy. The German start-up, which uses precision fermentation to produce milk protein without the cow, is aiming to launch commercially by 2023. Berlin-based Formo – formerly LegenDairy – is a cultivated dairy company that uses microorganisms instead of cows to produce animal-free milk proteins. The process sees selected microorganisms encoded with milk prot...