Savor’s synthetic butter Savor
A new type of dietary fat that doesn’t require animals or large areas of land to produce could soon be on sale in the US as researchers and entrepreneurs race to develop the first 鈥渟ynthetic鈥 foodstuffs.
US start-up Savor has created a 鈥渂utter鈥 product made from carbon, in a thermochemical system closer to fossil fuel processing than food production. 鈥淭here is no biology involved in our specific process,鈥 says from the firm.
Instead, its butter is derived from the carbon…