Does artificial meat smell good?
Artificial meat has been popular in China for some time, but the first artificial real meat has just appeared.
165438+1October 18 On the morning, the WeChat National Meat Center of South China Agricultural University announced that the first domestic farmed meat was born in South Agricultural University: Professor Zhou led the team to use the sixth generation of pig muscle stem cells, which took 20 days to cultivate farmed meat weighing 5 grams.
This is the first artificial meat made of animal stem cells in China, achieving a zero breakthrough in this field. As early as 20 13, the Netherlands cultivated the first artificial meat, and then the United States, Russia and some European countries also had this technology, but so far, compared with artificial plant meat, the technology of artificially cultivating meat is not very mature.
According to experts, under the current production technology, artificial meat can be divided into two types: one is to use plant protein extracted from crops such as soybeans, peas and wheat as raw materials, and add plant flavor substances during processing to make it close to real meat in taste and flavor; The other is to cultivate meat, that is, to put the stem cells of animal tissues or organs into a Petri dish for reproduction, that is, to artificially cultivate real meat.
Source: Guan Wei, National Meat Center.
Compared with farmed meat, artificial vegetable meat is no different in China.
With the rising price of pork this year and other factors, domestic artificial meat has been listed one after another, but these are artificial plant meat, which is the so-called "vegetarian meat". China is already the largest vegetable and meat market in the world, reaching $965,438+billion last year, but it is mainly aimed at vegetarians.
At this year's China International Import Expo (CIIE) held on165438+1October 5-10, Impossible Foods, an American artificial meat supplier of Burger King, made its debut in China, indicating that it will make its debut in Chinese mainland market next year. 165438+1October 15, the tea brand Naixue's tea is in the newly opened first multi-scene experience flagship store "Naixue DreamWorks", and Starfield, a well-known artificial meat brand in the United Nations, launched three artificial meat products on Monday, which were sold out instantly.
With the concept of health, vegetarianism and health preservation, artificial vegetable meat has been popular for some time, but artificial cultured meat which is closer to the taste and composition of traditional meat also has many advantages. Dai Ruitong, a professor at the College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering of China Agricultural University, said that compared with the traditional aquaculture industry, the cultured meat does not occupy land, wastes resources, is pollution-free, is more environmentally friendly, and can avoid infectious diseases, thus better ensuring meat safety.
However, artificial meat farming still faces difficulties. In the prior art, the cultured meat is minced, so that fat, connective tissue and the like cannot be cultured, and the taste is quite different from that of natural meat. In addition, the cost of raising meat is too high to be commercialized.
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