Lab-grown alternatives aim to cut palm oil dependence
Two biotech firms have developed oils made from yeast as a replacement for palm. …
“You get so much more oil per hectare [from oil palms] than any other oil crop,” says Chris Chuck, professor of bioprocess engineering at the University of Bath. “Oil palms produce about 5,000 kg [of oil] per hectare per year, rapeseed about 1,000 kg per hectare per year, and soybean 400 kg per hectare per year.”
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