{"id":151557,"date":"2022-11-30T23:24:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T05:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/this-shark-tank-startup-is-making-vegan-bacon-out-of-seaweed"},"modified":"2022-11-30T23:24:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T05:24:22","slug":"this-shark-tank-startup-is-making-vegan-bacon-out-of-seaweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/this-shark-tank-startup-is-making-vegan-bacon-out-of-seaweed","title":{"rendered":"This \u2018Shark Tank\u2019 Startup Is Making Vegan Bacon Out of Seaweed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gcG_eCeH-5o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More people are opting to go vegetarian or vegan as factory farming\u2019s impact on the planet becomes more apparent. But one carnivorous delight they may not have to give up is bacon, especially if they\u2019re willing to be a bit flexible. A Dutch startup has been working on <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2019\/12\/09\/will-cultured-bacon-be-delicious-a-dutch-startup-is-developing-the-first-lab-grown-pork\/\">cultured bacon<\/a> for a few years now, and New York-based MyForest Foods is producing a bacon substitute made from <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2022\/08\/17\/a-new-vertical-farm-will-grow-3-million-pounds-of-mycelium-a-year-for-fungi-based-bacon\/\">mushroom roots<\/a>. They\u2019ll soon have a competitor that will tempt consumers\u2019 palates with yet another variety, this one made from a most unexpected source: seaweed (though to be fair, mushroom root is a pretty unexpected source for imitation bacon too).<\/p>\n<p>Seaweed is good for you; it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diet\/health-benefits-seaweed\">contains<\/a> iodine as well as critical nutrients and antioxidants. But it doesn\u2019t have the greatest taste (though this is admittedly a matter of personal preference; plenty of people love to snack on roasted sheets of the stuff). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umarofoods.com\/\">Umaro Foods<\/a>, based in Berkeley, California, think they\u2019ve found the perfect combination of ingredients to make seaweed taste\u2014and feel\u2014like bacon.<\/p>\n<p>They start with red seaweed protein, which they say accounts for the bulk of the final product\u2019s meaty taste, color, and texture. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umarofoods.com\/bacon\">add<\/a> chickpea protein, which contains fatty acids and amino acids. Coconut oil and sunflower oil provide the fat, and spices like paprika and sea salt boost the flavor. Red radish juice adds color to make it all look more like real bacon. The product has a little less protein than real bacon, and about the same amount of fat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More people are opting to go vegetarian or vegan as factory farming\u2019s impact on the planet becomes more apparent. But one carnivorous delight they may not have to give up is bacon, especially if they\u2019re willing to be a bit flexible. A Dutch startup has been working on cultured bacon for a few years now, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}