Melt&Marble

What Happened

Melt&Marble ferments yeast into customizable "designer fats" that replace animal fat and palm oil in both food and cosmetics — tackling one of alt-meat's hardest unsolved problems (fat and mouthfeel) rather than just protein.

Why It Matters

Fat and mouthfeel, not protein content, are what most alt-meat products still get wrong — a fermented, customizable designer fat aimed directly at that gap is solving the harder half of the plant-based-meat problem.

Fat and mouthfeel — the part of plant-based meat everyone else left unsolved.

FET's Takeaway

Being usable in both food and cosmetics widens the addressable market meaningfully — a fermentation platform that only serves one industry has to carry all its R&D cost alone, one that serves two can amortize it.