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Ovomucoid

  1. Precision Fermentation
  2. Proteins
  3. Egg
  4. Ovomucoid

    Technical Data

    Type of Protein Egg
    Protein name Ovomucoid
    Companies producing this protein The EVERY Company
    Function (dairy alternative, colorant, texture, taste...) Used for its foaming and emulsifying properties, mostly as egg white replacement (The EVERY Company, 2025).
    Target application (cheese, infant formula, meat...) Mostly used as egg replacement in emulsified dressings such as mayonnaise (OvoBoost from the EVERY Company) (The EVERY Company, 2025)
    Purity requirement/purification values No purity found for food purposes, but has been purified at >95% on industrial scale (Rekom Biotech S.L., n.d.)
    Techno-functional properties Foaming and emulsification properties (Beck et al., 2025)
    Nutritional properties Has antioxidant and tumor-supressive properties (Beck et al., 2025)
    Advantages Has different techno-functional properties as well as nutritional properties that can be exploited (Beck et al., 2025)
    Challenges/risk factors
    • Ovomucoid is the main allergy causing proteins in egg whites (Abeyrathne et al., 2013)
    • Glycosylation is very important for ovomucoid. It also contains sialic acids, which cannot be added by non-mammalian host strains. this might impact the folding and function of ovomucoid (Beck et al., 2025).
    Komagatella phaffi (Pichia pastoris)

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