A team led by researchers at Jiangnan University removed two genes from the genome of Fusarium venenatum, the fungus used in ...

STOKESLEY, England — Refrigerated trucks trundle down the pretty country lanes laden with pale, doughy masses of fungus -- 32 tons or more a day. “Pure mycoprotein -- good enough to eat, won’t taste ...

Mooove over, beef. Swapping meat for mycoprotein — a protein made from fungus that’s found in Quorn-brand frozen products — could help lower bad cholesterol by 10%, results from a new four-week study ...

Quorn is made from the soil mould Fusarium venenatum strain PTA-2684. Image by Anne Jea (CC BY-SA 4.0). Quorn is made from the soil mould Fusarium venenatum strain PTA-2684. Image by Anne Jea (CC ...

Mycoprotein and fungal proteins take up less land than animal farming, and can be used to aid in regenerative agriculture, explains mycoprotein major Quorn - perhaps the best-known manufacturer of ...

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Quorn is a brand of meat substitute products, like Impossible or Beyond Meat. Quorn got started by Marlow Food in the mid 1980s in the UK, then spread through Europe in the 1990s. It finally showed up ...

Matt Ernst started worrying when his face swelled up and turned deep red. Panic hit when his throat began to feel tighter and tighter, till he was gasping for air. Figuring that Ernst was having an ...

Mycoprotein and fungal proteins hope to offer a solution to the negative impact to the environment associated with industrial farming, heard FoodNavigator’s recent Climate Smart Food digital summit.

WASHINGTON — A fake meat that is made from fungus, but looks and tastes like chicken, has arrived in U.S. supermarkets. In Europe, the meat substitute rivals soyburgers and similar products in ...

While investors and journalists are pretty excited about a new wave of startups growing food in fermentation tanks, it’s easy to forget that we’ve been eating a filamentous fungus grown in big metal ...

When vegetarians and other diet-conscious eaters go to the supermarket in search of healthy alternatives to meat, the optimal word is healthy. For more than a decade, a British company with U.S.