Savor announced the commercial launch of its animal-and-plant-free butter. Select restaurants like SingleThread and ONE65, and bakeries like Jane the Bakery are set to be among Savor's first customers this year, the company said.

This milestone, arriving on the third anniversary of Savor's founding, caps several years of intensive research and development, culinary innovation, production scale-up and regulatory assessments.

"Savor was founded to find the most sustainable way to feed humanity. Truly sustainable solutions can't just reduce our environmental footprint, they have to be affordable, approachable and craveable," said Kathleen Alexander, co-founder and CEO of Savor. "As the only technology with the potential to replace palm oil and other widely used fats with a very low-carbon equivalent within the next decade, Savor is positioned to make a substantial impact on global sustainability efforts in the food industry. Savor's method of producing fats and oils offers differentiated scalability and versatility, allowing us to create rich, delicious ingredients while reaching price parity with conventional fats more rapidly."

"Our expanding pipeline of partners reflects a deep industry-wide status: the food sector urgently needs solutions to mitigate supply chain instability, which continues to impact revenues and margins across the board. This, while reducing emissions from raw materials and maintaining high ingredient quality and generally acceptable prices. It is such a complex challenge to solve and we intend to help our partners solve it," said Chiara Cecchini, Vice President of Commercialization at Savor.