Sundial Foods, a plant-based meats company, has announced it has raised a $4 million seed round that includes Nestlé, Food Labs, Clear Current Capital, SOSV / IndieBio, and others.
Is it necessary for non-meat protein products to taste like meat products? Stacie Waters, owner, and chief executive officer of Bilinski Sausage Co., in Cohoes, N.Y., says her company thought a lot about this question during the process of developing High Peaks Plant-Based Sausages.
The preparation of dry beans, lentils and peas for subsequent processing into plant-based meat substitutes in the form of burgers, sausages and crumbles relies on continuous-process systems that maintain precise control over time, temperature and moisture.