Production of coloured fungal mycelium
AssigneeMushlabs GmbH
InventorsThibault Godard, Marian Nassar, Cindy Lau Chin Yee, Wassim W. Ayass
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for the production of a composition comprising a fungal biomass, characterized in that said composition has a particular colour, as well as a composition and a supernatant obtainable according to the method of the present invention, and their use in the production of a food product, in particular a food product characterized by a particular colour.
Claims29
A method for the production of a composition comprising an edible fungal mycelium biomass, characterized in that said composition has a stable and homogenous colour, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a growth medium;
- (b) providing at least one edible fungal strain that produces mycelium;
- (c) cultivating the at least one edible fungal strain in the growth medium until deceleration phase is reached;
- (d) supplementing the growth medium with at least one colourant, wherein the supplementing is done in the deceleration phase;
- (e) further cultivating the at least one fungal strain in the growth medium supplemented with the at least one colourant;
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- (f) harvesting from the growth medium the composition comprising the edible fungal mycelium biomass, characterized in that said composition has the stable and homogenous colour
- due to the at least one colourant supplemented in step (d),
- wherein supplementing the at least one colourant in the deceleration phase results in a more stable and homogenous colouration of the composition relative to supplementing the at least one colourant at a time point other than the deceleration phase.
A composition comprising an edible fungal mycelium biomass, wherein the composition is obtained according to a method comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a growth medium;
- (b) providing at least one edible fungal strain that produces a mycelium;
- (c) cultivating the at least one edible fungal strain in the growth medium until deceleration phase is reached;
- (d) supplementing the growth medium with at least one colourant, wherein the supplementing is done in the deceleration phase;
- (e) further cultivating the at least one fungal strain in the growth medium supplemented with the at least one colourant;
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- (f) harvesting from the growth medium the composition comprising the edible fungal mycelium biomass, characterized in that said composition has a stable and homogenous colour due to the at least one colourant supplemented in step (d),
- wherein supplementing the at least one colourant in the deceleration phase results in a more stable and homogenous colouration of the composition relative to supplementing the at least one colourant at a time point other than the deceleration phase;
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- optionally wherein the composition comprises:
- at least 15 mg or 30 mg of the at least one colourant per 100 g of the fungal mycelium biomass, and/or
- at least 0.01-5 wt. %, 0.1-5 wt. %, 0.1-2.5 wt. %, 0.1-1 wt. %, or 0.1-0.5 wt. % of the at least one colourant.
A supernatant, obtained according to a method comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a growth medium;
- (b) providing at least one edible fungal strain that produces a mycelium;
- (c) cultivating the at least one edible fungal strain in the growth medium until deceleration phase is reached;
- (d) supplementing the growth medium with at least one colourant, wherein the supplementing is done in the deceleration phase;
- (e) further cultivating the at least one fungal strain in the growth medium supplemented with the at least one colourant;
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- (f) harvesting from the growth medium the composition comprising the edible fungal mycelium biomass, characterized in that said composition has a stable and homogenous colour due to the at least one colourant supplemented in step (d);
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- (g) recovering the supernatant from the composition harvested in step (f),
- wherein supplementing the at least one colourant in the deceleration phase results in a more stable and homogenous colouration of the composition relative to supplementing the at least one colourant at a time point other than the deceleration phase, and
- optionally wherein the supernatant comprises at least 0.1 wt. % of filamentous fungi.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.