Greener Living
Startups Are Turning These Unconventional Ingredients Into Butter and Oil
They’re tapping everything from fungus to sawdust to engineer the luscious feel of fat.
Bill Gates-backed biotech startup Savor plans to sell its synthetic vegan butter — made from captured carbon dioxide — to US restaurants and bakeries in the coming months.
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The slabs of butter atop sourdough at a recent tasting were smooth, creamy and greasy, as you’d expect.
But at this event in New York, the appetizers’ buttery feel came from a potent greenhouse gas, not fat from cow milk.