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Red to Green season 6, Biotech in Food

Season 6 of Red to Green:

Biotech in food

 

What can we learn about the newest technologies shaping our food system?

Relevant for

Anyone interested in food tech and learning about the cutting edge of science in food 

structure

A series of interviews with leaders in the field. 

Scope

This season includes guests from across Europe and the US from leading startups, scaleups, and journals.

Relevance

Thie season was recorded in Q4 of 2022 and gives a primer on the basics of the technolgies.

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Marina Schmidt

Founder of Red to Green Solutions, host of the podcast

Irina Gerry

CMO, Change Foods | Food & Climate | Sustainability | Food Tech | Speaker

#Really need to know

 

An introduction to bio tech in food 🧬 precision and biomass fermentation, molecular farming & more 

Welcome to our season on biotech in food. Scientists and founders use cutting-edge technologies to make ingredients with less. Less water. Less land. Less greenhouse gas emissions. But also with more. More climate resilience. More functionality. More nutrients.

#Hashtags

Three types of biomass fermentation 🍄 & how they compare to precision fermentation 

Biomass fermentation. This episode will tell you all about it. Together with Chief Scientific Officer of Nature’s Fynd, Debbie Yaver, we get into the weeds. You will learn about 3 types of biomass fermentation, how they are different from precision fermentation and why fungi are such wonderful solutions for everything from alternative proteins, to plastic replacements to biodiesel.

Debbie Yaver

Chief Scientific Officer at Nature’s Fynd

Gregor Tegl

CEO of Arkeon Biotechnologies

#intro #foodwaste #solutions

Gas fermentation 🏭 proteins made from nothing except CO2, hydrogen and salt

What if you could make pure protein by feeding microbes CO2 and hydrogen? This technology is independent of soil and sun and just badass. Sci-Fi is real, I tell you. Sci-Fi is real.

#OneDayI’llBeCreative

 Traditional Fermentation 🍷Yogurt, Kimchi and Wine 

We all have eaten fermented foods. Yogurt, Kimchi or Sauerkraut, pickles, beer and wine – to name a few. If you take out alcoholic drinks, fermented foods are known to be great for the gut microbiome. But why is that the case? You will find out in this episode.

Lars Williams

Co-Founder at Empirical Spirits

Aletta Schnitzler

Chief Scientific Officer, TurtleTree

#oooSquirle! 

Cells as machinery 🍼 cell-based milk or cow-free milk made by growing glands

December 2022, Perfect Day launched the first precision fermentation milk available in Asian supermarkets. It contains the milk proteins whey and casein produced in a bioreactor instead of a cow. Especially whey protein is pretty tricky to make, so it’s a real breakthrough.

#fullfillingHopesAndDreams

Molecular farming: growing cow dairy 🐮 in plant cells 🌱 using genetic engineering

A theme in this season is using new machines. New production hosts. But they are not made of steel or flesh and are all way smaller. This could be cells or fungi like yeast or bacteria used as machinery. So it becomes possible to produce certain ingredients more efficiently.

Amos Palfreyman

Co-Founder and CEO at Miruku

Larissa Zimberoff

Author: Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley’s Mission to Change What We Eat

#CopyPasta!

A critical view on biotech 🔍 Is this healthy? Is this safe? 🤔

In this episode, we talk about “ingedientisation.” Our foods are increasingly puzzled together from protein isolates, colorants, binders, additives, and more. It’s January 2023. I recorded most of these interviews in August last year- we plan far in advance. And in the meantime, instead of becoming more excited about biotech, I have become more critical.

#WhoSaidCholateWasGood?

The dark side of cacao and why we need alternatives

Why is the cacao trade so broken? Why does chocolate increasingly cause new rainforest areas to be cut down? What if we could make chocolate from other sources? Join us for this episode with WNWN co-founder Ahrum Pak.

Ahrum Pak

CEO & Co-Founder at WNWN Food Labs

Darko Mandich

CEO at MeliBio – Giving Bees A Break!

#HoneyComeQuick!

Replacing honey on the molecular level – monoculture honey production and plant-based alternatives

What do Bees have in comon with Bananas? A thriving diverse population of winged insects been slowly widdled down to a monoculture and this is a problem. Today we talk with Darko Madrich to learn about plant based honey alternatives. 

#BioInBioOut

Scaling food biotechnology 📈 bioreactors, inputs and brains. Challenges and opportunities

We need to scale. But how? The biotech space is will go through some growing pains. Find out about scalability issues like bioreactor capacity, the supply of inputs, and the lack of brains. As well as lessons we can learn from vertical farming companies that are already a step or two further down the line.

Elliot Swartz

Lead Scientist, Cultivated Meat at The Good Food Institute

Christian Guba

VC at FoodLabs

#MoneyMatters

The investor’s perspective on biotech 🎢 in food

How venture capital shapes the biotech space, the challenges of biotech patents, the hype and bust of plant-based, and what the hell a venture studio does. I enjoyed this a lot and I hope you do too – let’s jump right in!

#Regulationnation

Regulatory approval in Europe vs. the US and Singapore

Why is it so to get approved in Europe? What does the actual process look like? What are the steps? What do companies need to do? And what is the difference between the systems in Europe, Singapore, and the U.S.?

Seth Roberts

Policy Manager Good Food Insituite

Marina Schmidt

Founder of Red to Green Solutions, host of the podcast 

#LearningTime

Season final – a summary and quiz on biotech in food 

I have something very special for you. You can see it as a quiz to test your knowledge and also a way to find out which topics you still want to look into more deeply. For each episode, I will ask you a question, give you time to answer it, so you don’t need to stop the audio, and then share how I would answer it. Even if you don’t come up with the answer, trying to look for it engages your brain differently. And helps to change “I heard something” to “I learned something.

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