The flavors that I bought were Blueberry Pie, Vanilla N’ Cookies, and Hazelnut Chocolate Chunk – all of which sounded appealing. These days, you can buy Brave Robot ice cream for around $6 per pint (or $2 at the Grocery Outlet). Folks were surprised to see the ice cream at these prices – friends of mine (biotech enthusiasts) bought ice cream from Perfect Day when it was first released, at a cost of $60 for three pints. I bought three different flavors of Brave Robot ice cream from the Grocery Outlet for $1.99 each. Note that Brave Robot and Modern Kitchen brands are both produced by The Urgent Company, which was created by Prefect Day but now runs as an independent company.Īnyway… on to the Brave Robot ice creams that I tried. Graeter’s ice cream, made in Ohio, interesting flavors.Nick’s ice cream, low carb and keto-friendly.Smitten ice cream, which has several liquid nitrogen equipped stores around the Bay Area.Modern Kitchen vegan cream cheese, which is not on supermarket shelves yet.Brave Robot vegan ice cream, which I’ll get to in a moment.Several companies are starting to use Perfect Day’s milk protein as an ingredient: So, Perfect Day are offering a vegan version of milk (basically) that’s much closer to cow’s milk than milk made from oats, almond, coconut, etc. The goal of Berkeley-based Perfect Day has been to replicate dairy by engineering a fungus to produce the proteins that are found in milk (casein and whey proteins, mainly). Brave Robot is the ice cream maker but the vegan milk protein is produced by another company, Perfect Day.
Confused? Well, don’t be – it’ll all become clear in a moment. The brand will also be available online in August for nationwide shipping.Brave Robot is a unique brand of ice cream in that it’s made using milk proteins that come from a fungus rather than a cow. It is currently available in retailers in the San Francisco Bay Area with plans to expand in the Southwest region through August and September. We figured we’d start with ice cream and bring joy in these times of crisis, because, well, why the hell not?”īrave Robot launched with eight flavors: Vanilla, Buttery Pecan, Blueberry Pie, Raspberry White Truffle, Vanilla ‘N Cookies, PB ‘N Fudge, Hazelnut Chocolate Chunk, and A Lot of Chocolate. What that all means we are still figuring out but we know a part of it will harness the latest in innovation and science to create revolutionary, exceptional-tasting, and sustainable animal-free foods with less impact on the planet. “The Urgent Company is a new type of consumer packaged goods (CPG) business: one with a singular focus to change the CPG ecosystem. “As an ingredient technology, there is nothing like in the dairy space, so it was really a no-brainer to see if we could use this technology to create products accessible to all,” Kollesoff told VegNews. The resulting protein product can be used to make vegan versions of dairy-based food such as milk, cheese, and ice cream. Brave Robot ice cream uses Perfect Day’s dairy-identical but animal-free whey protein, which is made by inserting a cow’s DNA sequence as a blueprint into yeast-based microflora. The brand is the first product from The Urgent Company, a new sustainably focused consumer food company founded by alternative dairy protein manufacturer Perfect Day and longtime dairy product developer Paul Kollesoff. Innovative vegan ice cream brand Brave Robot recently launched in the United States.
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