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mycoproteins

mycoproteins is the plural of mycoprotein.

Meaning of mycoprotein

Noun

mycoprotein (countable and uncountable, plural mycoproteins)

  1. A food product derived from fungus, the basis of Quorn.
    • A general concern on microbial protein from a filamentous fungus, generically named mycoprotein, is the possible contamination of mycotoxins produced by the fungus, as known from food spoilage by fungi (Filtenborg et al., 1996) and from production of enzymes and other food ingredients (Blumenthal...2007, Jan Dijksterhuis, Robert A. Samson, editors, Food Mycology: A Multifaceted Approach to Fungi and Food, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 353
  2. (obsolete) A gelatinous albuminoid resembling protoplasm, of which the putrefactive bacteria are composed.

Questions about mycoproteins

What is mycoproteins the plural of?
Mycoproteins is the plural of mycoprotein.

Words near mycoproteins in the dictionary

  1. mycoplasmology
  2. mycoplasmoses
  3. mycoplasmosis
  4. mycoplasms
  5. mycoprotein
  6. mycoproteins
  7. mycoredoxin
  8. mycoremediate
  9. mycoremediated
  10. mycoremediates
  11. mycoremediating

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