Lab Farm Foods recently unveiled new cell-based meat prototypes, showing the possibilities for the future of cell-culture technology. As COO Dave Schnettler describes, "While we believe cell-culture technology still has a ways to go before it produces a viable standalone product, we see the opportunity involving blended hybrid products as a way to make a more immediate impact on the global challenges we are trying to solve, while still offering consumers the same taste and nutrient profile they have grown to love."
Two new types of chicken nuggets were created by Lab Farm Foods with 50:50 ratios of cultured cells to plant-based proteins or conventional ground chicken. Alongside its hybrid nuggets, Lab Farm Foods also created a pork liver pâté recipe with 100% of the liver being cell-cultured pork liver.
Hybrid Cell-Based Meats
Lab Farm Foods' Nuggets are Made with a 50:50 Ratio of Cell-Based Meat
Trend Themes
1. Hybrid Cell-based Meats - Combination of cell-based and plant-based proteins or conventional ground meat offers opportunities for blending nutrition and taste.
2. Cell-culture Technology - Improvements in cell-culture technology offer possibilities for the creation of viable standalone cell-based meat products.
3. Alternative Protein Sources - Development and introduction of alternative protein sources is a trend offering opportunities for sustainable and humane food production.
Industry Implications
1. Food and Beverage - Innovations in hybrid cell-based meats offer disruptive opportunities for sustainable, humane, and nutritious food production that is also tasty and affordable.
2. Biotechnology - Future research and development in cell-culture technology can lead to disruptive innovation and new market opportunities in the biotechnology space.
3. Agriculture - Alternative protein sources such as hybrid cell-based meats offer opportunities for disruption in the agriculture industry by changing the way food is produced and distributed to consumers.