Tempty Foods, a Danish producer of mycelium-based meat alternatives, has announced the launch of its new Spicy Korean Stick at convenience store chain 7-Eleven Denmark.
Described as “sweet and spicy”, the snack is made from mycelium, carrots, lentils, quinoa, and oats, all rolled in cornflakes and glazed with spicy gochujang sauce. It is now available in the hot section at 30 selected 7-Eleven stores in Copenhagen.
The Spicy Korean Stick has been developed through 7-Eleven’s Innovation Corner competition. Tempty Foods first pitched the idea last year, and the snack went through multiple iterations to achieve an optimal taste and texture.
“Meals of the future”
Tempty Foods has previously claimed to be the first Danish company to ever offer mycoprotein-based products. In 2023, the brand announced a partnership with Quorn parent company Marlow Foods, which had just created an ingredients division to make its mycoprotein available to other manufacturers. Tempty became the first company to use the ingredient, other than Quorn itself.
“Tempty Foods started as a project at DTU [The Technical University of Denmark], and today it has become a real business with one goal: to develop the meals of the future with honest ingredients and lots of taste,” said 7-Eleven Denmark on LinkedIn. “Now, its first convenience product, Spicy Korean stick, has landed in selected 7-Eleven stores across the country through our Innovation Corner concept.”
