A San Francisco based company called New Wave Foods, has just created artificial shrimp from algae products.
Shrimp is a favored seafood in the United States, however, shrimp harvesting and farming has many negative ecological consequences. Enters New Wave Foods: they have found a way to make synthetic shrimp from a variety of algal products. The shrimp texture comes from brown seaweed sugars, the flavor is from green algae oils, and the coloration is from red algae pigments.
Not only are these shrimp vegetarian, but also environmentally friendly.
Watch a video below on how these “shrimp” are made