PALMOILMAGAZINE, WASHINGTON – C16 Biosciences is a company dedicated to finding sustainable alternatives to palm oil. Since 2017, the company has focused on developing a product derived from wild yeast microbes through a fermentation process that generates zero emissions.
While chemically distinct from conventional palm oil, C16 oil shares similar fatty acid compositions and can be used in the same applications. Unlike palm oil, however, C16 is derived from microbial sources rather than trees, making it a “natural” alternative with no agricultural footprint.
Quoting from Bill Gates’ blog, Palmoilmagazine.com reported that the company’s consumer brand launched its inaugural product last year. C16 Biosciences plans to introduce additional products and collaborate with various industries, including beauty, personal care, and food, to replace their use of palm oil with sustainable alternatives.
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“By having fermentation as the relatively economic, measured, and fast process particularly if compared to deforestation and cut off, the success of C16 seems to be real,” billionaire Gill Gates noted in his blog, Tuesday (20/2/2024).
“I do hope they would be successful. Though the idea to substitute laboratory scale – fat and oil may sound strange in the first place, the potential to minimize carbon track would be very significant. By advantaging technology and proven process, this would lead us closer to get our climate goal just like what we hoped for,” he noted. (T2)
