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Yes! Our dairy cheese is 100% animal-free. No animal inputs, no animal ingredients.

Thanks to the wonders of precision fermentation. Instead of using a cow to produce the casein proteins that are vital to making cheese, we get mighty microorganisms involved in a fermentation process. This lets us make those same casein proteins, just without involving any animals. This precision fermentation process is a food technology that’s been around since the 1990s, and is actually a method that’s already used to make the vast majority of cheese that we know and love.

Through the cheesemaking process, the casein protein found in milk transforms into curds, which are then turned into cheese. No casein, no curds, no cheese. By teaching our microorganisms to produce these proteins, we can make real dairy cheese without involving a single animal.

In a typical fermentation process, microorganisms produce a whole range of ingredients and compounds as they break down the sugars around them, such as alcohols, acids, or flavors (think: beer, yogurt, kimchi). Precision fermentation, on the other hand, is a more sophisticated and targeted fermentation process where microorganisms are trained to produce a specific ingredient. In our case, that ingredient is casein, the star of the cheesemaking show. Precision fermentation has been around for decades, and is used across all sorts of food categories, including breadmaking, fruit juices, deli meat, and even cheese (believe it or not!)

No. There’s no lactose or cholesterol in our cheese, because it doesn’t come from animals. So if you’re lactose intolerant or avoiding cholesterol, we’ve got great news: you can eat as much of our animal-free dairy cheese as you like. Want more great news? No trace hormones or antibiotics, either.

While our cheese is 100% animal-free, it does contain dairy proteins. That’s because we’re making real cow cheese – just without the cow. Our key ingredient is casein – the dairy protein that makes cheese cheesy. Rather than utilizing casein proteins from cow’s milk, we use precision fermentation to make bio-identical animal-free casein protein. As a result, those with dairy allergies would still be allergic to New Culture’s animal-free cheese.

The process that we use to make our animal-free casein - precision fermentation - has been around for decades. It is used across all sorts of food categories, including breadmaking, fruit juices, deli meat, and to make the vast majority of cheese that we know and love. New Culture cheese is 100% free from genetically modified organisms (GMOs). While we do use genetic modification to train the microorganisms that make our casein (in the fermentation process), these are all removed before we make our cheese and are not in our final cheese product.

Yes and YES. We challenge you to tell the difference!

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