Fermented plant-based butter
Dutch alt dairy-focused Willicroft has traditionally worked in plant-based cheese alternatives. But today, the start-up is announcing its first non-cheese product. The Original Better fermented butter product will be available in both retail and foodservice channels from September.
This is a butter and not a margarine, stressed the start-up. It tastes, spreads, cooks and bakes ‘exactly like dairy butter’. Willicroft has achieved this through its precise fermentation process, which it says allows the re-creation in taste of ‘high-end dairy butter’ without any artificial flavourings.
The new product is made with soybeans sourced in Austria, along with ‘100% natural ingredients’. Compared to other plant-based butter alternatives, Willicroft Original Better contains less saturated fat, while being ‘just as spreadable and meltable’.
The alt butter project was supported by a grant from the Provincie Noord Holland.
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