A weekend breakfast without eggs? For many people, that would be a real sacrifice. However, large numbers of consumers are turning against factory farming and are resolving to consume fewer animal products.
What can the vegan high-tech egg from the lab do? Can it be cooked, fried and also prepared as scrambled eggs? To find out, "Galileo" reporter Martin Dunkelmann meets the inventor of the vegan egg alternative.
Plant-based alternatives to animal products are constantly being reinvented. A vegan lifestyle product, developed by a start-up in Berlin, is supposed to be able to be processed like a normal egg.
A Berlin start-up has developed the first vegan egg alternative that looks and tastes like a real egg.
Germany's Neggst has raised €5 million in seed funding for its whole vegan eggs, which feature a white, a yolk, and a biodegradable shell.
VEgg: Neggst vegetable egg alternative from egg yolk and protein to nutrients and eggshell- can be boiled, fried, baked or scrambled.
The "Green Generation Fund" invests in meat alternatives and artificial eggs from plants. Even a former Aldi boss is on board as an investor.
