The fund manager will work with Hungry Jack’s to devise a plant-based version of the latter’s flagship burger, the Whopper, based on Csiro research.
Main Sequence Ventures, the Australia-based manager of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Csiro)’s Innovation Fund, is to partner fast food chain owner Competitive Foods Australia to develop a plant-based burger product, Business Insider Australia has reported.
Main Sequence Ventures and Competitive Foods’ fast-food burger retail subsidiary, Hungry Jack’s, will establish a jointly-owned spinout, dubbed V2Food, to formulate a vegetarian iteration of Hungry Jack’s flagship product, the Whopper, based on Csiro’s food science expertise.
Hungry Jack’s is the Australia-based sister franchise of fast-food chain Burger King, which already sells a meat-free Whopper in the US created in partnership with Stanford-founded plant-based food company Impossible Foods.
The Australian product is being developed under the codename “v2whopper”, and is expected to contain a legume-like pea or bean base charged with protein.
Hungry Jack’s launched a range of vegan products in Australia in October 2018. The addition of…
