Remilk, a food-tech startup, announced it will begin selling its lab-produced milk made from dairy proteins through a partnership with Gad Dairies from next year, according to a report by The Times of Israel.

The company claims its "cow-free" milk tastes exactly like the dairy one. From January, two variants: a 3 per cent fat milk and a vanilla-flavoured version will be available under the label New Milk. Both are lactose-free, cholesterol-free, and made without antibiotics or hormones.

A separate 'Barista' line, meant for cafés and restaurants, will appear within days, the report said.

Remilk's founders say prices will be similar to other milk alternatives like soy or almond milk but unlike them, this one is "real" dairy. The only difference being that no cows will be involved.

Remilk may enter US market

The launch comes more than two years after Israel's health ministry approved Remilk's products for sale, clearing the path for one of the world's first large-scale rollouts of lab-grown milk. The company is also in talks to enter the US market.

Remilk isn't alone in lab-grown dairy farming. Food giant Strauss Group has also launched cow-free drinks and cream cheese made using similar precision fermentation technology through another Israeli startup, Imagindairy. It's the beginning of what some call a "post-cow era", a shift that could transform the global dairy industry.

What is lab-grown milk?

Lab-grown milk, sometimes called 'animal-free dairy', is real dairy produced without cows. Unlike almond, oat, or soy milk, which are plant-based substitutes, lab-grown milk contains actual milk proteins (casein and whey), identical to those found in cow's milk.