Savor Launches Butter Made Without Agriculture, Showcasing the First of its Revolutionary Sustainable Fats
Savor, the pioneering food company that creates pure, versatile and sustainable fats directly from carbon without the need for conventional agriculture, today announced the commercial launch of its animal-and-plant-free butter – the first product made from a game-changing platform that has captivated chefs and food manufacturers from coast-to-coast. Select restaurants like Michelin-starred SingleThread and ONE65, and beloved bakeries like Jane the Bakery are set to be among Savor's first customers this year.
This milestone, arriving on the third anniversary of Savor's founding, caps several years of intensive research and development, culinary innovation, production scale-up and regulatory assessments, coinciding with the company's recognition as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2025. The company celebrated these achievements this month with special dinners in San Francisco and New York City where esteemed guests were among the first in the world to taste Savor's butter replacement.
'Savor was founded to find the most sustainable way to feed humanity. Truly sustainable solutions can't just reduce our environmental footprint, they have to be affordable, approachable and craveable,' said Kathleen Alexander, co-founder and CEO of Savor, who was honored last week as one of Inc. Magazine's 2025 Female Founders 500. '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.'
Over the last year, Savor has been quietly collaborating with select restaurants and bakeries in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, who are eager to incorporate the company's butter into their culinary creations. Renowned culinarians like SingleThread Owner-Chef Kyle Connaughton and Pastry Chefs Juan Contreras of Atelier Crenn and Clement Goyffon of ONE65 have been early evaluators. A short film showing how Contreras uses Savor's butter to reimagine a classic brioche recipe is featured on the company's new website, with others to follow.
Savor's proprietary technology has also attracted multinational consumer packaged goods companies, whose R&D teams are working on ingredient innovation projects that can leverage Savor's unique ability to create customizable fats and oils. The company is actively negotiating joint development agreements with some of these partners, who have been particularly impressed by the versatility and tunability of fatty acid profiles that Savor's platform can produce—capabilities that extend well beyond the company's initial dairy-fat mimicking formulation.
'Our expanding pipeline of partners reflects a deep industry-wide status: the food sector urgently needs solutions to mitigate supply chain instability, which continues to impact revenues and margins across the board. This, while reducing emissions from raw materials and maintaining high ingredient quality and generally acceptable prices. It is such a complex challenge to solve and we intend to help our partners solve it,' said Chiara Cecchini, Vice President of Commercialization at Savor.
Recent milestones critical to the commercial launch include:
The production of the world's first fats molecularly constructed from point-captured carbon dioxide (CO₂), green hydrogen (GH₂), and methane (CH₄)
The achievement of self-affirmed GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, allowing legal sales in the U.S. market
The expansion of R&D capabilities at Savor's San Jose headquarters
The opening of Savor's first 25,000-square foot pilot production facility in Batavia, Illinois, which has the initial capacity to produce metric tons of fat starting this year
'Savor is redefining food production with a scalable solution that delivers great taste while enhancing stable, domestic supply chains,' said Carmichael Roberts, Breakthrough Energy Ventures. 'The global demand for fats and oils continues to grow, and innovations like Savor's proprietary fats offer a breakthrough opportunity for the industry and the planet. This milestone highlights their continued innovation and the strong market demand for their approach.'
'Following a decade of experience investing in the food tech space, it is clear that fats are a crucially important part of delivering incredible, animal-equivalent taste and texture to alternatives. Savor's approach unlocks both scalability and flexibility in producing animal-equivalent fats in a way that no other current solution is poised to. As a result, this makes them inseparable from the coming food system transformation,' said Costa Yiannoulis, co-founder and Managing Partner of Synthesis Capital.
The commercial launch of Savor's butter and the additional milestones announced today represent just the first steps in the company's ambitious journey. Follow along on savor.it as well as on Instagram and LinkedIn to stay up to date on future developments.
For PR images and videos, please visit the company's press kit.
About Savor:
Savor believes in a future where we can all enjoy the foods we love without consuming our planet. Founded in 2022 and backed by leading investors like Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Synthesis Capital, the company's proprietary process follows nature's own blueprints to create pure, versatile and sustainable fats directly from carbon without the need for conventional plant and animal agriculture. Savor's teams in San Jose, California and Batavia, Illinois are obsessed with making top-quality ingredients that are scalable, infinitely customizable and deliver velvety, rich flavors that chefs, food manufacturers and consumers love. From butter to palm oil, Savor crafts delicious fats without depleting the Earth's resources. For more information, visit http://www.savor.it.
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