Exceptional food experience without animal-based ingredients

Liven develops animal-free protein ingredients that help plant-based foods achieve their full potential in delivering taste, texture, and cooking experience.

By going animal-free, we allow scalable, environmentally-friendly, and cruelty-free protein production to feed the growing population.

We understand why certain foods taste and feel the way they do, on a molecular level. We develop protein ingredients to address functional challenges in plant-based food formulations, such as the right gelling strength, desired emulsification properties, and expected changes in properties during cooking.

Thanks to synthetic biology, we can now make these protein ingredients using engineered microorganisms. We use under-utilized plant-based materials in the agriculture and food value-chain – the lost food – to grow the microorganisms and produce the desired ingredients.

The protein-making microorganisms are grown in large-scale fermenters, and the protein ingredients are purified to eliminate off-odours, and enable clean label. The process is scalable and highly reproducible.

Liven’s mission is to enable circular economy in the food industry to make it more sustainable. The process involves using side streams from food processing industries and converting them into protein ingredients. This ensures that food raw materials are utilized to the fullest extent, without any food being lost.

We need more sustainably produced foods to feed the next billion. This includes making more proteins than what we produce today through the $1.4 trillion animal industry, and reducing the 1.3 billion tons of annual food loss and waste.

At Liven, our vision is to address both these challenges by transforming lost food into highly valuable protein ingredients. We are using the power of synthetic biology and precision fermentation to achieve this transformation.