SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Savor has launched animal-and plant-free butter made from carbon. The company is partnering with restaurants, including SingleThread and ONE65 and Jane the Bakery, that will be its first customers this year.

“Savor was founded to find the most sustainable way to feed humanity,” said Kathleen Alexander, co-founder and chief executive officer of Savor. “Truly sustainable solutions can't just reduce our environmental footprint, they have to be affordable, approachable and craveable. 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.”

Savor said its process takes carbon from the atmosphere, earth and other emissions and joins it with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst to create hydrocarbons for fatty acids.

The company said it then combines fatty acids with glycerol, which creates a compact stable form of energy into triglycerides.

The triglycerides are then formulated into ready-to-savor fats and oils.

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