What is Precision Fermentation?
A TIME-TESTED TECHNOLOGY
Precision fermentation has existed for over 30 years and has been used widely to create both everyday products and life-saving medicine. Open your pantry or medicine cabinet, and you’ll likely find something made using precision fermentation. From insulin, rennet in cheese, natural flavors, citric acid, amino acids, and numerous vitamins commonly found in foods we eat, many products we consume today would be nearly impossible to make at scale without precision fermentation.
LEARNING FROM NATURE
Precision fermentation is an evolution of the natural process of fermentation of microorganisms (like yeast, algae, or fungi), combined with the latest developments in biotechnology. It’s the same fermentation process used to make beer, sauerkraut, and yogurt. In precision fermentation, we use bioengineering techniques to program microorganisms by giving them a specific genetic code to produce a compound of interest when fermented under precise conditions.
HUMANE AND ANIMAL-FREE
The code that is programmed into naturally-fermenting microorganisms is the exact copy of DNA sequence that is found in a digitized database on animal DNA sequence. That means we are able to use animal-based genetic code with no animal involvement whatsoever in the process. The result is the molecularly identical ingredient, made by microorganisms, instead of animals.