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  • Precision fermentation is able to make an increasingly larger number of traditionally animal only proteins, enzymes, etc. There is also non-animal casein coming down the pipeline which will help make animal-free cheeses really good since that’s what gives dairy cheese a lot of it’s unusual properties

    Already available now is also stuff like non-animal heme iron and non-animal egg white proteins

    I also want to add that ironically the dairy industry was one of the earlier pioneer for precision fermentation aside from it’s longer use for making various vitamins. Most tennet used in dairy cheese today (~95%) comes from precision fermentation (the other ~5% still comes from the stomach of killed calves) because the costs of animal rennet started to get super high in the 1990s























  • There are indeed. I’ve bought pre-made Chickpea Tofu at the store before though it has a very different texture and taste than soy based tofu. I’ve also heard of Pumfu (Pumpkin Seed Tofu) as a thing you can buy. Looking it up there’s a ton more that I hadn’t heard of like fava bean, split yellow pea, split green pea, pigeon pea tofu, red lentil, sunflower seed, and more though I’d assume those you’d probably have to make it yourself instead of being able to buy?