{"id":21887,"date":"2021-01-29T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/2021\/1\/the-world-s-first-vegan-chicken-made-from-peanuts-is-coming-to-asia"},"modified":"2021-01-29T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T11:59:00","slug":"the-worlds-first-vegan-chicken-made-from-peanuts-is-coming-to-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/29\/the-worlds-first-vegan-chicken-made-from-peanuts-is-coming-to-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s First Vegan Chicken Made from Peanuts Is Coming to Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <img src=\"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/media\/W1siZiIsIjIxMjQ0L1ZlZ05ld3MuSGFvZm9vZHNDaGlja2VuLmpwZyJdLFsicCIsInRodW1iIiwiMTYwMHg5NDYjIix7ImZvcm1hdCI6ImpwZyJ9XSxbInAiLCJvcHRpbWl6ZSJdXQ\/VegNews.HaofoodsChicken.jpg?width=1600&amp;height=946&amp;optimize=true&amp;format=jpg&amp;sha=4d634f7e08b1ee7a\" \/><p>Shanghai-based food startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haofood.co\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Haofood<\/a> has created a line of plant-based chicken products made from peanut protein. During its product development, the company aimed to create a product that did not rely on soy and instead tested a wide variety of plant-based proteins. Haofood has since developed proprietary methods to create modified textured peanut protein that gives its products a texture and taste similar to meat from chickens. Since its last year, the startup has completed its first stage of product development, with products that include plant-based chicken nuggets, chicken chops, and popcorn chicken, and it has closed a pre-seed investment round of $325,000. The company is also currently working on developing fried chicken.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vegan peanut chicken launch<br \/><\/strong>This year, Haofood plans to roll out its products to the foodservice sector, starting in China and then Southeast Asia, and focus on growth through co-branding and co-creation. It is currently working to raise $1.5 million to reach its goal of distributing its products to 300 restaurants and developing its own protein and wet extrusion processes. Next year, the company plans to expand to e-commerce with the retail market to follow in 2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/vegnews.com\/2021\/1\/the-world-s-first-vegan-chicken-made-from-peanuts-is-coming-to-asia\">VegNews.com<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Shanghai-based food startup Haofood has created a line of plant-based chicken products made from peanut protein. During its product development, the company aimed to create a product that did not rely on soy and instead tested a wide variety o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21888,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21887\/revisions\/21888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}