Savor Teams Up With AAK to Scale Carbon-Based Fat Ingredients

Savor, a carbon-to-fat startup, has partnered with Swedish fats and oils group AAK to develop specialty fat ingredients for dairy alternatives and bakery applications. Their collaboration will combine Savor’s Carbon Crafted platform, which converts captured carbon dioxide, green hydrogen, and methane into fat molecules, with AAK’s expertise in plant-based oils. The companies aim to create fats that require significantly less land and generate lower carbon emissions compared to conventional counterparts, targeting customers in the US and European markets.

The partnership with AAK accelerates Savor’s path to large food manufacturers seeking supply chain resilience and ingredient innovation at scale. With AAK’s formulation expertise and commercial infrastructure, Savor can offer a new source of saturated fats decoupled from agriculture and traditional supply chains, while also addressing supply chain pressure and the need to reduce environmental footprints in the dairy alternatives and bakery categories. This collaboration aims to provide applications with great taste and texture for customers, improving the overall consumer experience in these important segments.