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S’pore Startup Coming Out With Plant-Based Eggs to Substitute Real Eggs

2020-11-30 , 11:42 am

When it comes to protein, eggs rank as one of the top few superfoods to eat.

It doesn’t hurt that this wonderful food tastes good, is hard to mess up when cooking and is affordable for most people.

But in Singapore, the only way we can get enough to feed the entire country is through direct imports from many different sources.

What if five years down the road, another coronavirus pops up and this time, it’s so bad even supply chains are disrupted?

Would people in Singapore have to go through one and a half years of abstinence from eggs?

Well, no. At least not if OnlyEg has anything to say about it.

S’pore Startup Coming Out With Plant-Based Eggs to Substitute Real Eggs

In the first quarter of 2022, Singapore-based food tech start-up Float Foods will launch its plant-based whole egg substitute called OnlyEg.

Touted as Asia’s first commercial plant-based whole egg substitute, it substitutes both the egg white and the egg yolk.

Can Be Made Into Many Styles

Unlike other alternatives in the market which is currently a “liquid blends of egg substitutes” which can only be made into scrambled eggs and omelettes, OnlyEg consists of legumes-based substitutes for both egg yolk and egg white as “two distinct components”.

This means that it can be assembled, “in minutes”, into multiple different styles including sunny-side-up, over easy, or even soft-boiled.

The best part? It’s tailor-made for Asians, which is why they made sure OnlyEg can be made into many different dishes common to Asians.

Better Compared To The Real Thing

As we’ve mentioned before, the humble chicken egg is chocked full of nutrients.

OnlyEg, however, is being developed into food that has a higher nutritional value than eggs in partnership with A*Star.

The completed product also gets rid of the pesky problems of potential animal-to-human disease transmission, hormones, antibiotics residue and cholesterol.

Float Foods is confident that the reduction of carbon footprint and land use will help OnlyEg enter into mainstream use.

Currently, Singapore consumes around 2 billion eggs every single year, out of which, 70% are said to be imported from Malaysia.

Float Foods hopes that their OnlyEg can help contribute to Singapore’s goal of 30% of its nutritional needs by 2030.

Now, if you can’t wait till 2022, Float Foods will be rolling out its plant-based egg patty and shredded egg that is supposedly good for stir-fry and fried rice next year.

Many Plant-Based Products Making Waves in S’pore

It’s not just Impossible Meat and, now, OnlyEg.

According to ST, Float Foods isn’t the only company making waves in the food scene.

Shiok Meats which cultivates crustacean meats (like lobster, crayfish, etc) has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Singapore Polytechnic to advance food innovation in the alternative protein area.

They’ve also launched their cell-based lobster in two dishes during a private tasting session and is scheduled to release it to the public in 2022.

There is also Hong Kong’s Omni-Meat Luncheon, a plant-based luncheon meat alternative, and ChickP’s chickpea plant-based protein alternative.

And of course, who can forget Impossible Meat?

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S’pore Startup Coming Out With Plant-Based Eggs to Substitute Real Eggs

S’pore Startup Coming Out With Plant-Based Eggs to Substitute Real Eggs

Can Be Made Into Many Styles

Better Compared To The Real Thing

Many Plant-Based Products Making Waves in S’pore

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