Myoglobin

Type of Protein	Meat - Functional
Protein name	Myoglobin
Companies producing this protein	Motif Foods, now taken over by Impossible Foods Collaboration between Revo Foods and Paleo Bio
Function (dairy alternative, colorant, texture, taste...)	Colorant and taste enhancer (Post, 2018)
Target application (cheese, infant formula, meat...)	Used in plant-based meat alternatives (Watson, 2023)
Purity requirement/purification values	Recombinant food-grade myoglobin has been purified at 88% (B. Zhang et al., 2021)
Techno-functional properties	Give typical red meat color when not cooked and dull-brown color when cooked (Suman & Joseph, 2013) Is associated with a serum-like taste and metallic mouthfeel of beef (Devaere et al., 2022).
Nutritional properties	Important nutritional source of iron (Carlsson et al., 2020)
Advantages	Addition of myoglobin to plant-based meat alternatives positively influences its aromatic profile, contributing to a profile closer to the one of conventional meat (Devaere et al., 2022).
Challenges/risk factors	NA

Komagatella phaffi (Pichia pastoris)