Josh Tetrick, the founder of Hampton Creek, announced his company had created the artificial eggs. The raw materials of this kind of eggs come from plants, and Hampton Creek Foods’ website claimed its product was healthier and 19 percent cheaper than normal eggs. What’s more, if its product is put into cakes or cookies, they taste much better.
The market of the artificial eggs
In my opinion, if the artificial eggs were really healthier or at least as healthy as the normal eggs, although it may take some time, artificial eggs will take place of the normal eggs in the industry of a variety of baked goods. Because all the producers cannot refuse the aggressively decreasing cost. Moreover, as is said in the article, the company has taken animals out of the equation which means Hampton Creek can produce eggs as quickly as producing cars, and all the process of the production will never be limited by climate or seasons.
However, we should not be too optimistic about the market of artificial eggs. At least, the artificial eggs are not real eggs, and a lot of people may refuse to eat them, just like genetically modified food. Although people do not have any evidence that genetically modified food is unhealthy, a lot of people still do not like it.