'Meatable,' a Dutch food tech startup, announced a new proprietary method of growing food in a lab that allows it to create countless cell-cultivated sausages from a single cell. The team is currently refining and building upon this process, and it expects the cell-cultivated sausages to be market-ready and scalable by 2025.
One of the largest challenges of creating cell-cultured meats is scalability. Many companies that produce these goods need to raise costs to accommodate the foods' elongated production cycle. However, Meatable believes its sausages have the potential to subvert this challenge while maintaining an accurate and delicious taste.
The company stated that "In the last few months, huge steps have been taken by the team to create the cultivated sausages which have the same structure, texture, glossiness and pronounced pork flavor that customers know and love," showing that it has genuinely created a no-compromises, sustainable meat alternative that does not contribute to harming animals in any way, particularly because the cells can be taken harmlessly.
Cell-Cultured Pork Sausages
Meatable Grows Sausages From a Single Cultivated Pork Cell
Trend Themes
1. Cell-cultured Meats - Opportunities for developing a range of food products cultivated from animal cells, that can reduce reliance on animal farm and more eco-friendly in terms of sourcing.
2. Sustainable Alternative Foods - A surge of alternative food innovations that are environmentally responsible and ethical, with breakthroughs that offer comparable taste, nutrition and texture with traditional meat products.
3. Lab-grown Meat Scalability - Advancements in lab-grown meat industry driven by the need for scalability, process automation and efficiency, which requires a synergy between technology and biology.
Industry Implications
1. Food & Beverage - The food and beverage industry has a remarkable opportunity in developing lab-grown meat product lines, which have the potential to change the future of the industry with environmentally sustainable and ethical food sourcing solutions.
2. Agriculture - Lab-grown meat products can significantly reduce the reliance on animal agriculture, which is polluting and inefficient, enabling a shift to cost-effective and sustainable solutions.
3. Biotechnology & Biomedical - The biotechnology industry plays a vital role in lab-grown meat production, developing new processes for tissue engineering, cell culture and biofabrication, to create cheaper, faster and scalable methods.