mycoprotein

English

Etymology

myco- +‎ protein

Noun

mycoprotein (countable and uncountable, plural mycoproteins)

1. A food product derived from fungus, the basis of Quorn.
   • 2007, Jan Dijksterhuis, Robert A. Samson, editors, Food Mycology: A Multifaceted Approach to Fungi and Food, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 353:

     A general concern on microbial protein from a filamentous fungus, generically named mycoprotein, is the possible contamination of mycotoxins produced by the fungus, as known from food spoilage by fungi (Filtenborg et al., 1996) and from production of enzymes and other food ingredients (Blumenthal, 2004; Mapari et al., 2005).