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Jan. 18, 2012 Volume 33, No. 16

MU soy chicken nearly ready for commercial market

Soy Chicken Meal

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

CHICKEN THAT ISN’T

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.

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