Bill Gates-backed startup makes 'butter' out of water and carbon dioxide
www.zmescience.com
To make this alternative butter, you don't need land, livestock, or crops.

A California-based startup called Savor has figured out a unique way to make a butter alternative that doesn’t involve livestock, plants, or even displacing land. Their butter is produced from synthetic fat made using carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and the best part is —- it tastes just like regular butter.

  • sunzu@kbin.run
    216·
    4 months ago

    “Bro”, butter is literally just a carbohydrate.

    🤡🤡🤡

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
      7·
      4 months ago

      If you want to be pedantic, straight out of the lab this stuff would be equivalent to “clarified butter”. Butter, from which all impurities have been removed.

      Still butter tho.

      • sunzu@kbin.run
        110·
        4 months ago
        1. that’s ghee, i won’t dispute that
        2. clarified butter is not a replace for butter as food, it is merely as “cooking fat”. butter it self is very nutritious, clarifying it, you would lose a lot of it.

        So headline is a bit of PR voodoo as i expected.

        Big food companies has made a lot of afford to discredit butter and eggs since these foods are very good and cheap, aka processed food industry’s main competition.