Talk:Fusarium venenatum

Article updates
After noticing some mycophiles asking about how a mycoprotein culture is set up, I added a more detailed description of the process to this article, thinking it may be of more interest to biologists and other scientists than it would be to general consumers.

For your amusement, and the curious, I've also added a compare and contrast section on the densities and areas involved. These are based on general figures I found from government agencies and documentation regarding farming standards and the design of the myco culture vessels. I've added them as rough estimate. If anyone out there would like to hit the calculator, biro and back of an envelope to double check them, that'd probably be a good idea; lots of unit changes involved.

I wasn't too sure about producing a cubic volume comparison with caged birds, as I'm not too sure what the regulations are regarding stacking birds. But the area they require is higher than shed birds (250 square centimetres versus 750 square centimetres). I'm guessing that's the case because the open floor birds can jump over each other, whereas the caged ones would probably struggle to do that, so they'll need more area to move between each other.

Why people are talking about eating insects I don't know. That seems to be something of a step in the opposite direction versus the Quorn Tower. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.237.116 (talk) 15:43, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

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 * 1) There is more about the "controversy" than there is about the mould. This is not permitted under the "undue weight" clause of the NPOV policy.
 * 2) The "controversy" is nothing to do with the mould as an entity. It doesn't describe it or anything.
 * 3) The section is simply repeating the long section in the Quorn article, where, although it is overblown, it is at least somewhat appropriate. Grace Note (talk) 08:50, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Obvious nonsense
If the "broth" really is 95% glucose it would be an almost solid sludge. The water content simply must be far higher than indicated here or it couldn't sustain the Fusarium. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:07, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

My thought also - the 230 tonnes calculation seems to have come from that dodgy value as well. However, the production methodology is not made up whole cloth, the inclusion of potassium, magnesium and phosphates is mentioned in the original patent. I may log in and rewrite the whole thing in more general terms, starting from the patents as source material 95.144.144.27 (talk) 09:32, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Needs an Illustration?
I'd love to see how it looks like. I only noticed that Quorn product is made of this fungus. 188.67.62.140 (talk) 19:24, 13 December 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 years later, and the situation has not been addressed. Pathetic. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 00:36, 15 February 2021 (UTC)