Chicago-based Nature’s Fynd is using a strain of fungi that its chief science officer discovered in an acidic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. While other mycoprotein companies use large bioreactors, Nature’s Fynd grows its fungi in heated chambers stacked with shallow trays—a low-footprint way of growing mycoprotein that the company says makes it well-suited to urban factories.
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