37 min
6.9. Mimiking Honey and Monoculture Honey Productions 🐝 Melibio CEO Darko Mandich Red to Green Food Sustainability 🥩🔬♻️
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- Entrepreneurship
We lack bees, we lack insects and it's a severe issue for biodiversity. Because flowers are dependent on insects and vice versa, right?
So if you eat traditional honey, are you promoting bee health? No, large-scale monoculture is an issue in crop agriculture and beekeeping.
Hear from Darko Madrich, the co-founder and CEO of Melibio. I got to try their plant-based honey in Switzerland last year. And it tasted so similar I wondered whether they had just poured some natural honey into the bottle.
By the way, whenever I meet Darko, I feel his spirit animal would be a giant bumblebee. He has that vibe.
Anyway, Instead of using something like rice syrup, Melibio uses the compounds found in honey. Re-building it from the ground up.
In the future, they want to use precision fermentation to add a few compounds that are hard to replace. But is that necessary?
LINKS
Check out our supporter of this season ProVeg Incubator and their 12-month incubator program:
https://provegincubator.com/
More info and links to resources on https://redtogreen.solutions/
Connect with Marina Schmidt https://www.linkedin.com/in/schmidt-marina/
Check out our supporter of this season, FoodLabs, and their Climate Program:
https://www.foodlabs.com/
For sponsorships, collaborations or feedback write Marina at change@redtogreen.solutions
Hashtags for this episode
problems with honey
honey production
honey farming
pesticide impact on bees
honey alternatives
vegan honey
animal-free products
animal-free honey
Hashtags for this season
Biotechnology in food
What is biotechnology food
Food biotechnology examples
Food biotechnology startups
Biotechnology food companies
Biotech food in usa
Food biotechnology examples
Editor's note: on 17.02. a 1,5-minute partnership message was added at minute 7.
We lack bees, we lack insects and it's a severe issue for biodiversity. Because flowers are dependent on insects and vice versa, right?
So if you eat traditional honey, are you promoting bee health? No, large-scale monoculture is an issue in crop agriculture and beekeeping.
Hear from Darko Madrich, the co-founder and CEO of Melibio. I got to try their plant-based honey in Switzerland last year. And it tasted so similar I wondered whether they had just poured some natural honey into the bottle.
By the way, whenever I meet Darko, I feel his spirit animal would be a giant bumblebee. He has that vibe.
Anyway, Instead of using something like rice syrup, Melibio uses the compounds found in honey. Re-building it from the ground up.
In the future, they want to use precision fermentation to add a few compounds that are hard to replace. But is that necessary?
LINKS
Check out our supporter of this season ProVeg Incubator and their 12-month incubator program:
https://provegincubator.com/
More info and links to resources on https://redtogreen.solutions/
Connect with Marina Schmidt https://www.linkedin.com/in/schmidt-marina/
Check out our supporter of this season, FoodLabs, and their Climate Program:
https://www.foodlabs.com/
For sponsorships, collaborations or feedback write Marina at change@redtogreen.solutions
Hashtags for this episode
problems with honey
honey production
honey farming
pesticide impact on bees
honey alternatives
vegan honey
animal-free products
animal-free honey
Hashtags for this season
Biotechnology in food
What is biotechnology food
Food biotechnology examples
Food biotechnology startups
Biotechnology food companies
Biotech food in usa
Food biotechnology examples
Editor's note: on 17.02. a 1,5-minute partnership message was added at minute 7.
37 min