FriedRiceNSpice
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I think Chinese food generally uses sauce rather than those stuff. I'm not sure though, don't really pay attention when the food is cooked lol
Food & Resource Security
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I was going to recommend sauces, too. But, in the apocalypse, there might not be refrigeration!
I have most of this stuff-salt/pepper/onion-garlic powder and chili powder,cayenne etc-I've always made it a habit not to throw away the high grade food containers that can hold a great deal more and have lids that can open to sprinkle or pour-try finding this stuff nowadays without paying a pemium.Also if you know how to cook-sauces can readily be made and even roadkill quality neighbourhood meat can safely even tastily be cooked(apocalypse no?)
A little old but I found this on bioengineered cow free dairy:
Apparently it is ridiculously more efficient than cow dairy:
Apparently it is ridiculously more efficient than cow dairy:
It's been in research in China for a while:
I wouldn’t be sleeping to well with substantial savings in any U. S. Bank, tho’!
I think like all alternative foods, the most difficult part is getting the taste right. It will be difficult to replicate complex flavours of normally produced foods through singular/low-complexity bio-reactor created imitation. You can see the difficulties most apparently in meat where the most complicated thing to market made so far are hamburgers and hotdogs, highly processed food that can mask the taste through seasoning.
Even if they never get the taste right, at the very least, they can be used for feedstock for fish. Current aquaculture practices involve catching wild fish to feed farmed carnivorous fish species, it's very wasteful.
That or it can be used for products whose taste don't really matter, like protein powder, or incorporated into flour or other such raw cooking materials.
My understanding is that in the case of biomass fermentation which is being used here, the feedstock still have to come from some organic source (sugars/lipids/ethanol) and I'm not sure that will be much cheaper than fishmeal.
Imo if all you're looking for is protein grinding up bugs seem to be the absolute cheapest and quickest way. You also can market it straight as an alternative rather than a replacement, which avoids a whole crowd of traditionalists.
Fishmeal is horrible for the environment and has negative diplomatic consequences. Chinese fish farming is mostly tilapia which are herbivores and scavengers that can even eat literal shit.
I actually like even traditional soy chicken 素鸡 more than real meat. China has tons of traditional plant based proteins. The modern stuff is good for burgers and chicken too.
But this isn't plant based milk which Chinese already drink way more than animal milk. it is bioengineered microbial milk which can have specifically tuned nutrients - AKA, it has the potential to be superior to animal milk in every way.