Fy is a nutri­tion­al fun­gi pro­tein derived from a nat­u­ral­ly-occur­ring microbe (Fusar­i­um strain flavolapis) with ori­gins in Yel­low­stone Nation­al Park. We grow Fy using our break­through fer­men­ta­tion process to cre­ate an ani­mal-free, com­plete pro­tein source with all 20 amino acids and min­i­mal envi­ron­men­tal impact. With Fy, we cre­ate a wide range of tru­ly deli­cious foods—all free from ani­mal products—that nour­ish your body and pro­tect our plan­et for future gen­er­a­tions. Find out more here.

Fy is a nutri­tion­al pow­er­house. It’s a com­plete veg­an pro­tein source with all 20 amino acids, includ­ing the 9 essen­tial amino acids, which help build and main­tain muscle. 

The nov­el pro­tein con­tent is sup­ple­ment­ed by high lev­els of cal­ci­um, vit­a­mins, and min­er­als, with no cho­les­terol or trans fats. Fy is a good source of fiber, includ­ing beta-glu­cans and pre­bi­ot­ic fiber. Beta-glu­cans from fun­gi are known to boost immu­ni­ty and sup­port healthy cho­les­terol lev­els and heart health, and pre­bi­ot­ic fiber is known to sup­port diges­tive health. Fy is high­ly digestible so our bod­ies can absorb its nutri­tious pro­tein con­tent eas­i­er than peas, peanuts, and many oth­er plant-based pro­teins. Talk about nutrient-dense!

As an ingre­di­ent, it only has 1/​10th of the fat and 30x less sodi­um than ground beef. On top of that, Fy has 50% more pro­tein than tofu and twice as much pro­tein than raw peas. 

What more could you ask for?

Well, research* sug­gests that eat­ing Fusar­i­um helps main­tain healthy blood cho­les­terol lev­els and blood glu­cose and insulin lev­els, pro­motes mus­cle syn­the­sis, and increas­es satiety.

No, Fy is not a plant-based pro­tein. And it’s not an ani­mal-based pro­tein either. It’s made from a microbe that’s actu­al­ly part of the third king­dom of life—fungi. Fun­gi are an omnipresent, almost invis­i­ble part of nature that is some­times for­got­ten but can be found all around us.

Learn more about what makes fun­gi-based pro­tein special.

No, Fy is cre­at­ed from Fusar­i­um strain flavolapis, a wild, nat­u­ral­ly-occur­ring microbe orig­i­nat­ing in Yel­low­stone Nation­al Park. The mag­ic is in our unique, inspired-by-nature fer­men­ta­tion process, where we sim­ply give it the nutri­ents and envi­ron­ment where it can thrive and grow into Fy, a nutri­tion­al fun­gi pro­tein. We have not genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied it in any way. 

No. Because we cre­ate a safe and clean envi­ron­ment to grow Fy through fer­men­ta­tion, we don’t need to use any antibi­otics, pes­ti­cides, or herbicides.

All pro­tein sources can trig­ger aller­gies for cer­tain indi­vid­u­als with sen­si­tiv­i­ties. The Uni­ver­si­ty of Nebras­ka Food Aller­gy Research and Resource Pro­gram (FAARP), one of the most well-known author­i­ties on aller­gens in the world, deemed Fy, our ingre­di­ent, to be a low-risk allergen.

We do rec­om­mend that those with sen­si­tiv­i­ty to fun­gi species, includ­ing mush­rooms, avoid con­sum­ing our foods.

We reluc­tant­ly did because most reg­u­la­tors in the world still man­date ani­mal test­ing to prove that an inno­v­a­tive, new-to-the-world food prod­uct like Fy, is safe to eat. So we com­plet­ed the required test­ing to assure the safe­ty of our products.

Due to Fy’s ver­sa­til­i­ty, we can cre­ate a wide range of both meat and dairy alter­na­tives, and many more of your favorite foods. Stay con­nect­ed to learn more about the new prod­ucts we’ll be intro­duc­ing in the com­ing months!

Yes, our prod­ucts are 100% veg­an.

Our prod­ucts are pro­duced with­out any ani­mal ingre­di­ents, added ani­mal prod­ucts, addi­tives, or byprod­ucts. This includes ani­mal meat, poul­try, fish, and shell­fish as well as eggs, dairy, hon­ey, and gelatin.

Yes. We don’t use any genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied ingre­di­ents, prod­ucts, in our pro­cess­ing, or our foods.

Pro­duc­ing Fy is incred­i­bly resource-effi­cient. Mak­ing Fy emits rough­ly 99% few­er green­house gas­es, and uses 99% less land, and 87% less water than grow­ing beef, with no methane emis­sions, and min­i­mal waste.

Fy is also more effi­cient because we are able to pro­duce 3.6x more pro­tein per acre than ani­mal pro­teins and 1.8x more than plant proteins.

No, we retrieved a small sam­ple of Fusar­i­um strain flavolapis and, thanks to its remark­able capac­i­ty for growth and self-suf­fi­cien­cy, the orig­i­nal sam­ples col­lect­ed from Yel­low­stone Nation­al Park are all we need to pro­duce unlim­it­ed amounts of Fy.

Nature’s Fynd is a com­pa­ny of opti­mists, explor­ers, and sci­en­tists who are ded­i­cat­ed to solv­ing the biggest chal­lenges fac­ing human­i­ty. We believe human inge­nu­ity along with sci­en­tif­ic curios­i­ty will reveal Nature’s solu­tions to our planet’s chal­lenges. We’re deeply com­mit­ted to our mis­sion of cre­at­ing amaz­ing foods that are nutri­tious, taste great, and help renew our plan­et for future gen­er­a­tions. Learn more about us.

Our food land­scape, what we eat, where it’s made, and the choic­es we have will be rad­i­cal­ly altered in the com­ing decades. 

Cli­mate change and the chal­lenges fac­ing the food sup­ply sys­tem aren’t a prob­lem fac­ing one com­pa­ny or industry—it’s a cul­tur­al, glob­al chal­lenge, with solu­tions requir­ing inno­va­tion, curios­i­ty, and most of all—optimism.

Solv­ing the chal­lenges that face our food sup­ply sys­tem is the moon­shot of our time. Pro­vid­ing a method to feed the world in a way that’s good for humans and the health of the plan­et is an auda­cious goal, but it’s one Nature’s Fynd is pre­pared to meet.