Bee-Free Honey
Fooditive, a Dutch plant-based ingredients company, will begin large-scale production trials of the world’s first 100% bee-free honey in 2023. Honey DNA is copied into a proprietary strain of yeast. When fed with nutrients and precision-fermented to replicate the metabolic processes that occur in the honeybee stomach, this yields a product with the same characteristics and functionality of bee-produced honey – from taste, colour and viscosity to its health benefits.
