It’s time to make plant-based foods tastier – for people and the planet

The key – recreating animal fats using precision fermentation.

Plant-based foods deserve the best fats – we create them

Plant-based foods can be just as juicy and delicious as animal-based foods. The secret is to use fats that deliver great taste and mouthfeel.

Until now, many eating plant-based foods feel that the experience is nowhere near the real thing. The reason is that plant fats and animal fats differ.

We will change this by using precision fermentation to recreate the best characteristics of animal fats. Our idea is to engineer microbial metabolism and dictate the structure and properties of the fats produced by our microbes.

The result? We can mimic any fat structure and create new and better fats.

This makes plant-based foods just as tasty as animal-based foods while being way more sustainable. In short, good news for both people, animals, and the planet.

Why we need an alternative to fat

Growing demand

More and more people want to eat plant-based foods. To meet this demand and genuinely offer a tasty alternative to animal-based, we must find new sources of fats.

Unsustainable practices

Producing fats commonly used for plant-based foods is associated with deforestation and loss of biodiversity. Melt&Marble is determined to challenge this.

Lack of taste

Today’s plant-based fats don’t mimic the properties of animal fats. We simply need tastier fats – and we have the key to make that happen.

It's high time to erase the taste gap between animal-based and plant-based foods. Melt&Marble's solution gives the entire plant-based industry a huge boost.