Cross pollination in the algae business

The first product to market for algae fuel company Solazyme will likely be one you put in your mouth, not in your van.

For most of its seven years, the South San Francisco company has been focused on developing an alternative to gasoline. But in the past few months, Solazyme has made breakthroughs in its “nutritionals” business, has used algae to create an algae-based mustard, a milk substitute and even cookies. It is testing products with major food manufacturers and believes it will have products on the market by 2010.Biz Journal