Alternative Ingredients Episodes

March 23, 2023

Can You Make (Good) Chocolate Without Cocoa and Coffee Without Beans?…

Adam Maxwell and Kelsey Tenney are almost polar opposites. What makes them such a formidable pair of co-founders is the one thing they do have in common. They are both downright obsessed with the science behind food. That mind meld …

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March 17, 2023

When Will Fake Meat Taste Like Real Meat (Part 2)? A Conversation wit…

Tyler Huggins, CEO and Co-Founder of Meati joins the podcast. Meati - which makes plant-based meat from mushrooms - appears to be a raging success...it's backed by celebrity chefs, it just entered a partnership with Sprouts and it's building a …

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March 31, 2022

When Will Fake Meat Taste Like Real Meat?

These days, there are so many ways food entrepreneurs are making plant-based meat. There are using methods like fermentation, or culturing meat cells, or simply using a plant-based source like pea...

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March 3, 2022

Can A Legacy Company Be a Disruptor? An Interview with Puris

You may never have heard the name PURIS Foods, but there's a good chance you've tasted their products but today, PURIS counts Beyond Meat and some of your favorite plant-based milks as its clients.

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Feb. 3, 2022

Is Lab-Made Human Milk a Moonshot or a Mommy Must-Have? An Interview …

Dr. Leila Strickland and Michelle Egger believe the $100 billion dollar infant formula industry isn’t serving the nutritional needs of newborns.

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Jan. 26, 2022

Can you Make Milk Without the Cow? An Interview with Perfect Day

We're joined by Ryan Pandya and Perumal Gandhi, the co-founders of Perfect Day, a company that makes the proteins you find in milk in a lab using a method called fermentation.

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