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MeliBio is an American food tech company that replaces the use of honeybees with microorganisms as a medium for honey production. [2] [3] [4] The company was founded in 2020 by Darko Mandich and Aaron Schaller. [5]
MeliBio is based in Oakland, California. [6]
MeliBio was founded in 2020 by Darko Mandich and Aaron Schaller in Berkeley, California. [7] [8] [9] The company uses plant science and precision fermentation to create a product molecularly identical to honey without the need for bees. [10] [11] [12] According to the FDA, this product cannot be marketed as honey.[ citation needed ]
In March 2022, MeliBio raised $5.7 million in seed funding. The round was led by Astanor Ventures. [13]
MeliBio was affected by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in 2023, with up to 90% of the company's assets reportedly held at the bank. [14] [15]
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Honeydew is a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids, some scale insects, and many other true bugs and some other insects as they feed on plant sap. When their mouthpart penetrates the phloem, the sugary, high-pressure liquid is forced out of the anus of the insects, allowing them to rapidly process the large volume of sap required to extract essential nutrients present at low concentrations. Honeydew is particularly common as a secretion in hemipteran insects and is often the basis for trophobiosis. Some caterpillars of Lycaenidae butterflies and some moths also produce honeydew. In addition to various sugars, honeydew contains small amounts of amino acids, other organic compounds, and inorganic salts with its precise makeup affected by factors such as insect species, host plant species, and whether a symbiotic organism is present.
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Miyoko Schinner is an American - Japanese vegan chef, cookbook author, cooking show host, vegan activist, and social entrepreneur, who appears in the 2024 documentary, You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment. She is currently the host of the YouTube cooking show, The Vegan Good Life with Miyoko, and is working on her next cookbook, The Vegan Creamery, which will be released in 2025.
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