Noblegen vegan whole egg replacement features protein from ‘ancient micro-organism’
The Egg, from Canadian startup Noblegen, is the firm's first consumer product under the eunite brand showcasing the ‘ancient microorganism’ euglena gracilis, which it claims can produce proteins with exciting functional and nutritional characteristics... without using genetic engineering.
Other products in the eunite pipeline can replicate dairy and meat proteins, utilizing the unique properties of euglena, which has the metabolic capacity of both animals and plants, and can produce proteins that are similar from a nutrition and functionality standpoint to animal proteins, although they are "not identical from a peptide sequence standpoint,” says founder Adam Noble.
