人造雞蛋將走向世界 口感與真雞蛋無異

A radical ‘artificial egg’ made from plants is set to go global after the US firm behind it revealed major backing from Asia's richest from plants, it can replace eggs in everything from cakes to mayonnaise - without a chicken ever coming close to the production ton Creek's products are already sold in Whole Foods in California, and now the firm plans to take on the world.

據英國媒體2月17日報道，美國公司Hampton Creek近日在得到亞洲首富李嘉誠的贊助後，打算將其人造雞蛋推向全球。這種由植物蛋白加工製作而成的人造雞蛋可以取代蛋糕、蛋黃醬等食品裏所需的雞蛋，且整個生產過程都無需雞的參與。目前，在美國加利福尼亞的一些食品超市已經有售。

Today that it was announced the firm has landed $23 million ers include Mr. Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man and Yahoo co-founder Jerry the last 90 days, the company has also signed partnership agreements with 6 Fortune 500 companies, including some of the largest food manufactures and retailers in the world - although the firm is keeping their names secret until products go on . Li Ka-shing, who is estimated to be worth $28.8 billion, said he believed the firm had huge potential.'Technology enables everyone to have more options to better our future together,' he said.

該公司近期宣佈其已獲得2300萬美元的投資，並打算將這種人造雞蛋推向世界。其投資者包括亞洲首富李嘉誠和雅虎創始人楊致遠。在過去的3個月裏，Hampton Creek已經與6家世界500強公司簽訂了合作協議，其中包括一些全球最大的食品生產和零售商。

'We can make really good mayonnaise, we’ve done taste tests against market leaders, and beaten them consistently. In the world of cookies, we’ve trialled our products with everyone from Bill Gates to Tony Blair, both of whom couldn’t taste the difference.'Bill Gates became an advisor to the company, and has been one of its most vocal supporters in the Silicon Valley world where Hampton Creek is based.'Companies like Hampton Creek Foods are experimenting with new ways to use heat and pressure to turn plants into foods that look and taste just like meat and eggs,' he recently wrote of the hopes to allow developing countries to grow and produce their own ‘plant eggs’.'In developing countries, we can also add in things missing from the local diet, helping nutrient deficiencies, and we have had initial discussion with the world food programme about this.'What we want to do eventually is find a way to work with farmers in the developing world to enable them to have new cash crops that can be used. Then we become the kind of company to be feared by the bad guys in the industry.'

Hampton Creek公司首席執行官兼創始人喬希?蒂特里克曾表示：“公司的目標一直是向全世界所有人提供更加健康和負擔得起的食物。我們想把動物從食品生產過程中解放出來。”蒂特里克的想法是將容易生長的植物以正確的方式混合，然後替代雞蛋的口感、營養價值和烹飪用途等。他還介紹說，他們已經在市場領袖中對這種產品進行了口感測試，包括微軟創始人比爾?蓋茨和英國前首相托尼?布萊爾都沒有嚐出不同。目前，比爾?蓋茨甚至已經成爲了該公司的顧問及其在硅谷最強烈的支持者。