Sustainable protein for Africa
Publication Date:
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
The CSIR has developed a sustainable bioprocess to manufacture a fungal-based protein product for a South African business called MycoSure. Dr Ghaneshree Moonsamy, a fungal expert at the CSIR’s Biomanufacturing Industry Development Centre (BIDC), says protein production in a bioreactor offers many sustainability and cost advantages over livestock and crop protein production.