- 4 days ago
CULT Food Science Files Third Cultivated Meat Patent
In line with its mission to advance the development of novel technologies, CULT Food Science recently filed its third patent application....
- 6 days ago
Japan’s Health Ministry Takes Steps Towards Cultivated Meat Regulations
Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry announced it is assembling a team of experts to study the safety of cultivated meat and its...
- Jun 13
Alternative Breast Milk: An Answer to the Next Formula Shortage?
By the end of April, 40% of baby formula products were out of stock in the United States causing several chains to put limits on the...
- Jun 2
Insights from the Food Innovation and Investment Summit
This past weekend, I had the honor of attending the Food Innovation and Investment Summit held by Kisaco Research in San Francisco. This...
- May 26
World’s Largest Cultivated Meat Bioreactors to be Built in US
GOOD Meat, owned by Eat Just, is set to build ten of the world’s largest cultivated meat bioreactors in the United States. Construction...
- May 24
Cultivated Seafood Company Introduces Cytoponics
Mermade, an Israeli cultivated seafood company, has revealed its plan for achieving sustainable mass production of scallops. The cellular...
- May 18
ADM Partners with Eat Just for Cultivated Meat Production
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is partnering with Eat Just, Inc. and has invested an undisclosed sum to further the production of its GOOD...
- May 16
UK Study to Explore if Cultivated Meat is a Threat or Opportunity for Farmers
UK’s Royal Agricultural University is bringing together farmers, public interest groups, cultivated meat companies, environmental...
- May 11
Czech Company to Cut Cultivated Meat Cost by 70% with Microalgae
Mewery, a Czech based company, is using a proprietary microalgae serum to cultivate pork. The process could reduce the price of...
- May 9
World’s First Cultivated Leather Production Facility to Open in California
California-based VitroLabs Inc. has raised $46M in a Series A funding round to build and scale the world’s first pilot production of...
- May 4
Gelatex Nanofiber Technology to Further Reduce Cultivated Meat Costs
After raising €1.2 million in funding last November, Estonia-based Gelatex has announced the potential to produce enough scaffolding to...
- May 2
Survey Finds Cultivated Meat the Preferred Alt Protein for Jerky, Burgers, and Nuggets
A recent survey found that consumers prefer cultivated meat over other alternative proteins for filet mignon, jerky, burgers, and...
- Apr 28
Meet the Advisor: Ricardo Gouveia, PhD, Newcastle University Postdoctoral Research Associate
WhatisCultivatedMeat.com is peer-reviewed by a team of academic and industry experts who serve as technical advisors for the website's...
- Apr 27
Upside Foods raises $400M in Industry’s Largest Funding Round
California-based Upside Foods has announced the close of their Series C funding round which brought in $400 million making it the largest...
- Apr 21
Israel Invests in World’s Largest Cultivated Meat Consortium
The Israeli cultivated meat consortium received $18 million from the Israel Innovation Authority. The consortium is the “world’s largest”...
- Apr 18
Netherlands Announces World's Largest Public Investment in Cellular Agriculture
The Dutch government has pledged €60 million to develop an “ecosystem” around cellular agriculture. This pledge is the largest-ever...
- Apr 13
Lions, Tigers, and Zebras! Cultivating Exotic Meats
British company Primeval Foods is developing cultivated meat from exotic animals including tigers, lions, elephants, panthers, leopards,...
- Apr 11
Majority of Consumers Choose Cultivated Meat in Test
A first-of-its-kind live consumer test was held by Israeli cultivated meat company SuperMeat. In the test, 71% of consumers chose...
- Apr 6
Japan Develops Country’s First Cultivated Meat
A research group at the University of Tokyo teamed up with Nissin Foods, maker of Top Ramen and Cup Noodles, to develop Japan’s first...
- Apr 4
SpaceX to Launch Cultivated Meat Experiment to ISS Wednesday
SpaceX Crew Dragon is set to launch for the International Space Station (ISS) this Wednesday, April 6, with Aleph Farms’ cultivated meat...
- Mar 31
Meet the Advisor: Elliot Swartz, PhD, Lead Scientist at Good Food Institute
WhatisCultivatedMeat.com is peer-reviewed by a team of academic and industry experts who serve as technical advisors for the website's...
- Mar 30
Tobacco Offers Solution to Cultivated Meat Bottleneck
Israeli company BioBetter, Ltd. is repurposing Nicotiana tobacum plant (tobacco) from local growers to create growth factors needed for...
- Mar 28
Cellular Agriculture Europe Welcomes First Cultivated Dairy Member
Cellular Agriculture Europe welcomes Wilk, its first cultivated dairy company, to the association. Wilk, formerly known as Biomilk, is an...
- Mar 23
MeaTech’s Peace of Meat to Build Cultivated Meat Plant in Belgium
Israeli 3D meat printing company MeaTech is building a 21,530 sq ft cultivated meat pilot plant in Belgium for its subsidiary Peace of...
- Mar 21
Alt Protein Company Enters Cultivated Meat Market to Reduce Costs
Algenex, an alternative protein producer, is entering the cultivated meat market with its patented CrisBio® production platform. This...
- Mar 17
Public Cultivated Meat Tastings Approved in Netherlands
Netherland’s House of Representatives passed a motion to legalize public tastings of cultivated meat in the country. The world’s first...
- Mar 15
SuperMeat Partnership Marks Industry First to Reduce Production Costs
A partnership between Israeli food tech company SuperMeat and Japanese food giant Ajinomoto marks a first for the industry, a...
- Mar 10
Africa’s First Cultivated Burger to be Revealed in April
South African company Mzansi Meat Co. will be showcasing the continent’s first cultivated beef burger at an event in Cape Town next...
- Mar 8
Cultivated Meat Production Facility Open to Public
Upside Foods, a cultivated meat company, is opening the doors of its Engineering, Production, and Innovation Center (EPIC) facility for...
- Mar 2
World’s First - Cultivated Chicken Sold in Food Stall
For the first time, cultivated chicken was available for purchase at a food stall in an open-air hawker center in Singapore. The meal...
- Feb 28
Connecticut Governor Tastes Cultivated Meat, in Talks to Bring Production to State
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont met with several Israeli companies including Future Meat and Aleph Farms to decide where to allocate up...
- Feb 23
Wildtype Raises $100M for Cultivated Salmon from DiCaprio, Bezos, and Others
San Francisco-based startup Wildtype has raised $100M in funding from Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr's FootPrint Coalition, and...
- Feb 17
Fiction Foods Announces Cultivated Nutrient-Rich “Performance Scramble”
Fiction Foods announced an update in its cellular agriculture pipeline, the commercial launch of its first egg alternative product...
- Feb 14
U.S. Patent Approved for Israeli Cultivated Animal and Breast Milk Tech
Israeli company Wilk Technologies has recently been granted a U.S. patent for its procedures and technologies for cultivated animal and...
- Feb 10
WhatIsCultivatedMeat.com - The History, Objective, and Methods
In 2016 Educated Choices Program began informing teens and adults about the impact of food choices, centering on the science-backed...
- Feb 9
New Regulations to Pave Way for Cultivated Meat in UK
Following Brexit, the UK no longer has to adhere to EU approval processes for novel foods. These processes often take years to navigate...
- Feb 7
India’s Population Prime for Cultivated Meat
A report shows 50% of India’s population of 1.39 billion are open to trying cultivated meat, and 60% would be willing to pay a premium...
- Feb 3
Chicken of the Sea Parent Company Invests $30M in Cultivated Meat
Thai Union Group, one of the world’s largest seafood manufacturers, has partnered with several cultivated meat companies including...
- Jan 31
China Includes Cultivated Meat in Five-Year Agricultural Plan
For the first time ever, the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs’ Five Year Agricultural Plan includes cultivated meat! The...
- Jan 27
Upside Foods Acquisition Adds Lobster to Portfolio
Upside Foods recently purchased Cultured Decadence, a company working to cultivate Maine lobster meat from cells. Upside Foods is...
- Jan 24
Master Chef Judge and Professional Taster Tries Cultivated Meat in Blind Taste Test
Cultivated meat start-up SuperMeat held a blind taste test at their restaurant The Chicken, the world’s first restaurant to serve this...
- Jan 21
Cultivated Beef to be Available in US in 2022
Aleph Farms expects to introduce cultivated meat to restaurants in the United Stated later this year. A recent partnership with Wacker...
- Jan 17
Cultivated Meat Predicted to be a $600B Industry by 2040
A recent report from the Edison Group found that the cultivated meat industry could become a near $600B industry by the year 2040, making...
- Jan 10
World's Largest Beef Producer Invests $100M in Cultivated Meat
JBS, the world’s largest producer of beef and poultry, is investing $100M into two cultivated meat projects in Spain and Brazil. This...
- Jan 3
2021 Saw More Luxury Restaurants Move to Plant-Based and Cultivated Meat Menus
The COVID-19 pandemic led a new wave of chefs and restaurants to reconsider the use of traditional meat in their menus. While many chose...
- Dec 22, 2021
The Largest Investment in Cultivated Meat to Date Raised by Israel’s Future Meat
Israel’s Future Meat, a company that creates cultivated chicken, lamb, and beef products, has raised $347 million, the largest single...
- Dec 20, 2021
CellMEAT Debuts World’s First Cultivated Dokdo Shrimp Prototype
South Korea’s CellMEAT has announced the successful development of a cultivated Dokdo shrimp, which they have replicated in a number of...
- Dec 13, 2021
UPSIDE Foods Announces Breakthrough
UPSIDE Foods announced a biological breakthrough: the nutrient-rich broth it uses to feed cells to produce cultivated meat is now 100%...
- Dec 6, 2021
US Regulators Face Challenges Deciding Nomenclature
As cultivated meat nears commercialization in the US, stakeholders’ comments submitted to USDA over how best to label this meat made from...
- Nov 29, 2021
Learn Everything There is to Know About Alternative Proteins
Take a deep dive into the world of alternative proteins! Watch full-length videos from “The Good Food Conference: Charting the global...