08/26/2026
These are 10 of the most significant companies connected to foods/food ingredients intended for U.S. consumption.
1. UPSIDE Foods — Cultivated chicken. FDA completed its premarket consultation in 2022.
2. GOOD Meat (Eat Just) — Cultivated chicken. FDA completed its consultation in 2023.
3. Wildtype — Cultivated salmon. FDA completed its consultation in 2025, and Wildtype subsequently introduced cultivated salmon at select U.S. restaurants.
4. Mission Barns — Cultivated pork fat, used in foods such as meat products. It became the first cultivated-meat product offered in U.S. retail, in a limited California launch.
5. Believer Meats — Cultivated chicken. FDA completed its consultation in July 2025.
6. Perfect Day — Uses precision fermentation to make proteins normally associated with dairy, including beta-lactoglobulin (whey protein); it has also developed fermentation-produced brazzein sweetener.
7. The EVERY Company — Precision-fermentation egg-white protein. FDA’s GRAS documentation describes potential uses including baked goods, pasta, cereals, egg products, pancakes, protein bars, dressings, eggnog, cocktails and powdered shakes.
8. New Culture — Precision-fermentation casein/dairy proteins, primarily being developed for animal-free cheese.
9. Onego Bio — Precision-fermentation egg-white protein, intended to replace conventional egg protein in foods.
10. TurtleTree — Precision-fermentation milk proteins, particularly lactoferrin and related nutritional ingredients.