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ABOUT THE PROTEIN MYCOPROTEIN- THE MICROBIAL MEAT SUBSTITUTE.

In 1960, due to the lack of protein troughout the world mycoprotein was developed as the meat analogue microbial product.After a long research with mycoprotein at last in 1960's it was successfully developed. It has a meat like texture but not meat analogue color. On the other side, by using another microorganism (fungi) one type of red pigment was developed. By means of that pigment, the mycoprotein can be colored as meat. The red pigment is produced by means of the fungi "Monascus purpureus". Actually this red pigment is a mixture of- 1. monascorubin. 2. rubropunctatin