ALTERNATIVE INGREDIENTS


Bee-free honey moves a step closer


Dutch plant-based ingredients company Fooditive is set to begin large-scale production trials of the world’s fi rst 100% bee-free honey in the New Year.


Leveraging the same patented biotech process used to create its vegan casein, which was launched last year, honey DNA is copied into a proprietary strain of yeast. When fed with nutrients and precision-fermented to replicate the metabolic processes that occur in the honeybee stomach, this is said to yield a product with the same characteristics and functionality of bee-produced honey – from taste, colour and viscosity to its health benefi ts. The production trials will recreate the lab-proven concept in 1,000-litre fermenters, with samples to be made available for potential customers to try and test out in their own applications.


The development of bee-free honey has been driven by concerns that common apicultural management practices in commercial beekeeping can be detrimental to the welfare of farmed honeybees and wild bee species that play a vital role in pollination, increasing the risk of disease that can lead to colony collapse and declining wild bee populations.


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