Savor unveils first-of-its-kind ‘butter’ made without cows, plants, or microbes

Savor unveils first-of-its-kind ‘butter’ made without cows, plants, or microbes

The race is on to find more sustainable, functional, or healthy alternatives to animal and tropical fats (coconut, palm, cocoa). But does the next generation of “designer fats” fit the bill? While several startups in the novel fats space are coaxing microbes or animal cells to produce some of these more saturated fats, San Jose, Calif.-based Savor is deploying a thermochemical approach which it claims is more scalable, whereby it takes a carbon …