Unattainable is engaged on a plant-based milk for individuals who hate plant-based milks.

An Unattainable milk, which remains to be in growth, could be nothing like soy or different plant-based milks, promised CEO Pat Brown. As an alternative, the corporate desires the beverage to style like the actual factor. Any such drink is a good distance from cabinets, if it ever makes it to the market.

The corporate introduced on Tuesday that it’s planning to double its analysis and growth group over the subsequent 12 months with a purpose to assist it develop extra plant-based merchandise, like milk, and work on different initiatives. It has raised $700 million this yr, and can use a few of that to fund the hiring spree.

Unattainable confirmed a plant-based milk prototype to reporters and others throughout a digital convention name Tuesday for instance of the sorts of tasks that the strengthened R&D group will sort out.

“We would like the milk {that a} dairy milk shopper will select,” Brown stated.

Unattainable, Past Meat (BYND) and different manufacturers that make meat alternate options have launched plant-based products that look and style nothing just like the black bean veggie burgers and tofu sizzling canine that lengthy dominated the market, however are designed to enchantment to meat eaters by extra convincingly mimicking meat. Equally, Unattainable’s purpose could be to design a milk different for individuals who favor the actual stuff to any of the presently accessible alternate options.

Laura Kliman, senior taste scientist at Unattainable, demonstrated two of the prototype’s useful qualities from Unattainable’s lab in Redwood Metropolis, California.

First she poured the milk right into a sizzling cup of espresso to point out how simply it combined into the beverage. Plant-based milk alternate options normally do not mix simply with espresso, and may make it cloudy or gritty. She additionally confirmed that the beverage can warmth up and foam like dairy milk.

The prototype she confirmed was simply that, although— the corporate remains to be determining one of the simplest ways to make another milk. It is doable that what Kliman demonstrated could possibly be the ultimate recipe, or that something which finally makes it to cabinets could possibly be utterly completely different.

“We’ve made prototypes from quite a few completely different plant sources,” Brown stated, including that soy, which was an ingredient within the prototype, is “an excellent alternative from a dietary standpoint and a provide chain standpoint, and for these causes I feel there is a first rate probability that will probably be the bottom protein for our product.” Unattainable makes use of soy to make its plant-based floor meat merchandise, in addition to the pork product it announced early this year.