Nature's perfect Design
2. The Blueprint:
We didn't need to invent a new protein; we needed to perfect a new process. We started with the blueprint for bovine casein, a design perfected by nature over thousands of years. Our challenge was to create a production system that could build this exact protein, atom for atom, without ever involving an animal.
Regulatory Status
United States
Generally Recognized As Safe (Self-Affirmed GRAS Q4 2024, GRAS Notice No. FO19337.00001). Our full FDA GRAS Notification was submitted on March 24, 2025, with a "no questions" letter anticipated.
Europe
Our EFSA Novel Food application strategy will be advanced in coordination with committed EU-based licensing partners.
Regulatory approval pathways in other key international markets will be pursued in alignment with licensee demand and strategic partnership objectives.
Other Regions
Our safety assessment for 5-KDF includes: Non-mutagenic (AMES, OECD 471), Non-clastogenic (OECD 473), low systemic toxicity (LD50 >5000 mg/kg bw), rapid excretion.
Toxicology & Safety
A New Era of Dairy, Powered by Partnership
3. The Result:
The outcome of our obsession is not just a revolutionary ingredient; it is a complete, validated, and scalable technology platform. We believe the future of food is collaborative. That's why we license our entire technology—the process, the protocols, the know-how—to visionary partners. We empower you to take control of your innovation, to create real, no-compromise dairy products, and to lead the charge into a new era of food.
Our Strategic Partnership
Fooditive & Leprino Foods
Validated by the Best: Our Strategic Partnership with Leprino Foods
A revolutionary technology is only as powerful as its real-world application. That's why we are proud to be in a strategic partnership with Leprino Foods, the world's largest mozzarella cheese maker and a global leader in dairy nutrition.
This collaboration is a testament to the transformative potential of our Non-Animal Casein platform. It moves our technology from the lab to the forefront of the global food industry.
Our Shared Mission:
Together with Leprino Foods, we are working to:
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Perfect Performance: Collaborating to scale the production of Non-Animal Casein that delivers the exact melt, stretch, and nutritional profile required for best-in-class cheese and dairy products.
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Unlock New Markets: Combining Fooditive's cutting-edge biotechnology with Leprino's market expertise to create a new category of delicious, sustainable, and animal-free dairy products for consumers worldwide.
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Build a More Sustainable Future: Demonstrating that precision fermentation is a viable, scalable, and powerful solution to creating a more resilient and sustainable food system.
This partnership is a clear signal to the industry: the future of dairy is here, and it's being powered by Fooditive's technology.
The Fooditive Non-Animal Casein Advantage
A Profile of Dairy Identical
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Uncompromising Dairy Taste & Texture
Delivers a clean, neutral, and mild dairy flavor profile, completely free from the beany, vegetal, or bitter off-notes that plague plant-based alternatives. It provides the exceptional creaminess, richness, and viscosity for the full-bodied mouthfeel consumers expect from real dairy.
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True Dairy Functionality (Melt & Stretch)
This is real dairy protein, engineered to perform. Our technology replicates the unique casein micelle structure, which is essential for providing the body, texture, and the hallmark melt-and-stretch characteristics of dairy cheese—a feat unattainable with plant proteins.
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Complete, High-Quality Nutrition
Our Non-Animal Casein is a complete, high-quality protein with a Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score (PDCAAS) of 1.0, the highest possible rating, making it nutritionally identical to the best dairy proteins. It is the ideal solution for creating nutritionally dense products without compromising on taste or texture.
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Unmatched Process Stability
Built for your production line. Our casein remains stable and functional through high-heat processing steps like UHT and retort, making it the perfect choice for creating shelf-stable nutritional beverages, sauces, and creamers where plant proteins often fail.
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Powerful Clean Label & Sustainability Claims
Produced via an animal-free fermentation process, our platform enables a new category of products. It unlocks powerful, consumer-facing claims like "Animal-Free Real Dairy," "Lactose-Free," "Cholesterol-Free," and "Hormone-Free," bridging the gap between traditional dairy and plant-based alternatives.
Fooditive & Leprino Foods
Our Strategic Partnership
Validated by the Best: Our Strategic Partnership with Leprino Foods
A revolutionary technology is only as powerful as its real-world application. That's why we are proud to be in a strategic partnership with Leprino Foods, the world's largest mozzarella cheese maker and a global leader in dairy nutrition.
This collaboration is a testament to the transformative potential of our Non-Animal Casein platform. It moves our technology from the lab to the forefront of the global food industry.
Our Shared Mission:
Together with Leprino Foods, we are working to:
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Perfect Performance: Collaborating to scale the production of Non-Animal Casein that delivers the exact melt, stretch, and nutritional profile required for best-in-class cheese and dairy products.
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Unlock New Markets: Combining Fooditive's cutting-edge biotechnology with Leprino's market expertise to create a new category of delicious, sustainable, and animal-free dairy products for consumers worldwide.
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Build a More Sustainable Future: Demonstrating that precision fermentation is a viable, scalable, and powerful solution to creating a more resilient and sustainable food system.
This partnership is a clear signal to the industry: the future of dairy is here, and it's being powered by Fooditive's technology.
A Licensed Technology Platform Engineered for Your Entire Dairy Portfolio
Fooditive's Non-Animal Casein technology is not a niche solution; it's a versatile, multi-functional platform designed to solve the toughest challenges in creating superior dairy and dairy-alternative products. Our technology empowers you to innovate in your most critical categories.
We Didn't Look for a New Plant. We Reverse-Engineered the Magic of Milk.
The End of "Good Enough."
The Beginning of Perfect Non-Animal Casein.
The story of dairy alternatives has been a history of compromises. To remove the animal, we've accepted gritty textures, beany aftertastes, and cheeses that simply don't melt. At Fooditive, we knew this was the wrong approach. The problem wasn't the dairy protein—it was the industrial reliance on the cow to produce it.
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Safety and regulation
A Foundation of Safety, Verified by Global Standards
Clear, Honest, and Safe. Transparency is paramount. As our protein is molecularly identical to the protein in milk, it must be declared as a "Milk" allergen to ensure consumer safety, in accordance with all food labeling regulations. For the ingredient list, we recommend the clear and accurate declaration "Casein (from Fermentation)" or "Casein Preparation."
Status: Ready for Market via Self-GRAS. Fooditive provides its partners with a comprehensive Self-Affirmed Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) dossier. This dossier, which contains all requisite safety and toxicological data, provides the robust scientific foundation for our partners to confidently and compliantly launch products in the U.S. market. We are committed to supporting our partners' future regulatory filings.
A Clear, Collaborative Path to Global Markets. We are actively preparing our technical dossier for EU Novel Food (EFSA) and UK regulatory submissions. Our strategy is to work in close collaboration with our licensing partners to submit these applications, ensuring the data package is perfectly aligned with both the latest regulations and our partners' specific commercial timelines.
Uncompromising Safety, Proven by Science. Our GRAS conclusion is built on a foundation of modern, ethical, and definitive toxicological science. Our comprehensive safety assessment confirms:
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Allergenicity Profile: Rigorous in silico analysis using the AllergenOnline (v21) database confirms a 100% identity match to bovine caseins and predicts no novel allergenic epitopes. This means our protein is as safe as the dairy protein it replicates.
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High Purity: Our proprietary downstream process ensures a final product with >95% casein purity and over 90% total protein, meeting the highest food-grade specifications.
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Ethical Foundation: Our safety case is built on a modern approach that avoids the need for new animal testing, aligning with our commitment to sustainable and ethical innovation.
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Decode the Magic
1. The Mission:
Our journey began not in a field, but at the white board. We didn't start by looking for a new plant to extract; we started by mapping the precise molecular functions of sucrose. We deconstructed its role in browning (the Maillard reaction), its function in creating texture (crystallization and viscosity), and its crucial impact on mouthfeel and freezing point. Our mission was to build a new molecule that could replicate these functions perfectly, but with a different biological destiny.
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