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Solein is an industrial protein powder, not a traditional ferment. The bacterium Xanthobacter sp. SoF1 grows in a continuous gas fermentation, taking its energy from hydrogen and its carbon from carbon dioxide, and the cells are heat-inactivated and dried. The yellow powder is 68 to 73.1 % protein, depending on the conversion factor used, and the whole bacterium is the food.
Fully documentedOther10 days
Recipe
No fixed amounts recordedIndustrial continuous process; production amounts are not published. The process numbers are from a lab study in 200 mL bioreactors, and the composition is from the powder used in a safety study.
Xanthobacter sp. SoF1 (VTT-E-193585)
Isolated from seashore sediment at Naantali, southern Finland[choi2026]
Mineral medium with ammonia as the nitrogen source
Modified DSMZ81 medium in the lab study[jamsa2023]
Starter
Xanthobacter sp. SoF1 (VTT-E-193585) from a culture collection; the lab study started inocula from glycerol stocks.
Total time across the recorded steps: 10 days
Start
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What changes:A small culture in mineral medium multiplies on hydrogen and carbon dioxide until it is dense
Step 1 of 4
Start a batch culture in mineral medium
Time
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Temperature
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Salt
None given
Acidity
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In the lab study the batch ran in modified DSMZ81 medium with 16.8 mM ammonium hydroxide as the nitrogen source; the continuous phase began once the culture reached an OD600 above 2. Output: dense starter culture.
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Microbes at work in this step
the bacteria multiply on the gases until the culture is dense enough to run continuously
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
Solein is an industrial protein powder, not a traditional ferment. The bacterium Xanthobacter sp. SoF1 grows in a continuous gas fermentation, taking its energy from hydrogen and its carbon from carbon dioxide, and the cells are heat-inactivated and dried. The yellow powder is 68 to 73.1 % protein, depending on the conversion factor used, and the whole bacterium is the food. Made in 4 steps over 10 days. The longest step, run the culture continuously on hydrogen and carbon dioxide, takes 10 days (Jämsä T 2023) and runs at 30 °C (Jämsä T 2023). Xanthobacter sp. SoF1, a hydrogen-oxidising chemoautotroph does most of the fermenting.
Other gas-fed protein microbesCupriavidus necator, another hydrogen-oxidising bacterium, has also been tested as a protein powder.
Safety
Safety studies found no genotoxicity in bacterial, cell and mouse tests, and a no-observed- adverse-effect level of 1500 mg/kg body weight a day, the highest dose given, in a 90-day rat study.
Wikipedia dates the launch of Solar Foods' pilot plant to 2019 [s1]. The company filed its EU novel food application on 29 October 2021 [solar-eu]. Singapore approved Solein as a novel food in September 2022 according to the company [solar-gras24], and in October 2022 according to Wikipedia [s1]; consumer products went on sale there in the summer of 2023 [s1]. Solar Foods announced self-affirmed GRAS status in the US on 2 September 2024 [solar-gras24] and submitted an FDA GRAS notification on 16 September 2025, expecting a no questions letter by the end of 2026 [solar-gras25].