Jan. 18, 2012 Volume 33, No. 16
MU soy chicken nearly ready for commercial market
TASTES LIKE CHICKEN Fu-Hung Hsieh, a professor of biological engineering at the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, has developed a product that tastes and looks like chicken. It has taken Hsieh more than 20 years to perfect the product. Photo by Leslie Jett
Agreement will also bring jobs to Missouri
A food company will use Mizzou research to launch a new product that not only tastes like chicken, but chews like it.
Savage River Farms, a Maryland-based company that specializes in healthy food products, has entered into a licensing agreement with the University of Missouri to commercialize a soy-based chicken substitute developed by Fu-Hung Hsieh, a professor of biological engineering at the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.