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Turning lucerne into a high-value edible protein

Turning lucerne into a high-value edible protein

Update: 2025-09-27
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Leaft Foods is a Canterbury-based start-up focused on extracting a special protein called Rubisco from the green leaves of plants. In this episode of Cut the Crop, Maury Leyland Penno and Monica Schwass of Leaft Foods say that while Rubisco is in every green leaf, they have selected to grow lucerne for its production and environmental attributes.

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Turning lucerne into a high-value edible protein

Turning lucerne into a high-value edible protein

Foundation for Arable Research (NZ)