I’m So Sick Of This Shit

(I don't want to eat no fake food. There should be a law to CLEARLY and DEFINITIVELY LABEL any food products. Only milk from mammals should be called milk. Anything else such as almond JUICE should be so labeled, IMITATION milk. Coconuts have coconut JUICE.

Only eggs from birds should be called eggs. If it didn’t come out of a birds ass, (cloaca) it ain’t no egg. It's Egg SUBSTITUTE.)

A protein made from yeast rather than chickens is entering mainstream packaged food products, raising questions about what consumers are actually buying and what federal (and, where applicable, state) labeling laws require companies to disclose.

The EVERY Company says its OvoPro egg-white protein is now being used in products sold through Walmart and Target. The company says annual orders secured during the first four months of 2026 were equivalent to 550% of its total order volume for all of 2025.

OvoPro is produced through precision fermentation, a process in which microorganisms are programmed to produce a particular protein.

In this case, the microorganism is Komagataella phaffii, a yeast. The resulting protein is intended to function as egg-white protein in food products, but no chicken is required to produce it.

The FDA has reviewed the ingredient through its Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) notification process. In GRAS Notice 1104, the FDA said it had “no questions” regarding the company’s conclusion that egg-white protein produced by K. phaffii was GRAS for its intended uses.

The FDA notice describes the ingredient as a substitute for hen egg-white protein and whole eggs.

OvoPro also should not be confused with cultivated meat. Cultivated meat is produced by growing animal cells. Precision fermentation instead uses microorganisms to produce a particular protein.

Federal FDA rules require packaged foods containing multiple ingredients to identify ingredients by their common or usual names. FDA guidance specifically identifies failure to provide a complete ingredient list or failure to use an ingredient’s common or usual name as labeling violations.

Food labeling also cannot be false or misleading.

That means a food manufacturer cannot simply purchase an ingredient from a third-party supplier and use the supplier relationship as a reason to omit a required ingredient from the finished product’s ingredient statement.

The more complicated question is what name must appear on the label.

EVERY has said it recommends identifying its product as “animal-free egg white protein” or “egg white protein from yeast,” but the final label is determined by the company selling the finished food.

That does not mean a manufacturer is free to conceal the ingredient. FDA requirements still apply to the finished product.

There is also an important distinction for consumers with egg allergies. Although OvoPro is produced without chickens, the company says its protein is not appropriate for people with egg allergies because it is an egg protein.

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