Startup Israel declared to make artificial steak, costing 50 USD / piece, tastes like real cow

Having a startup from Israeli has just announced they have achieved a key milestone, playing an important role in achieving the highest standards of artificial meat production, which is turning animal cells into tissues of beef.

Aleph Farms , rising with help from an Israeli research institute and an incubator, belonging to the giant food chain currently owns Sabra - the number one US hummus maker, where claims are made. on. Last Wednesday, they introduced the world's first beef born from a laboratory.

Based on the image of the beef piece, it is possible to see real beef fibers. It is likely that it is the product of the future, where people do not need to kill animals for meat. We will always have artificial meat as a perfect close-up replacement.

"The smell of cooked meat is very fragrant, it tastes almost like a normal piece of meat , " said CEO and founder of Aleph, Didier Toubia told Business Insider.

But the greatest contribution to the artificial meat industry of the beef is its texture, said Toubia."It's a bit tough, like meat. We can see it with our own eyes and feel it when we cut it."

If there is a milestone that artificial meat obtained in the laboratory is an effective meat substitute, it will have to be a piece of beef. Many places are making burgers from plants, but others are trying to create environmentally friendly beef and chicken with animal cells themselves. That way, we completely ignore the killing of animals.

However, no company has created a trustworthy meat, enough to sell to supermarkets and restaurants.

There is another Silicon startup called New Age Meat - New Century Meat that can make sausages made in vitro, the Just company claims to create nugget artificial chickens, and Memphis Meat startup contributed by Bill Gates Construction capital says that they have created chicken from animal cells. But nowhere has it claimed to be able to reproduce the sweet taste of a piece of beef tenderloin.

That's because making hamburgers, meatballs or any dish that has a lot of ingredients makes it a lot easier to reconstruct the structure and taste of a piece of meat."It's hard to make a sausage from a cell, you imagine making the right piece of beef , " said Aleph CEO Toubia.

Experts and venture capitalists believe that artificial meat will find its way to every household, and will shake the US $ 200 billion meat industry. But the recognition of artificial meat is the official food that will take a long time.

Not wasting time on trivial foods like meatballs or nugget, Aleph goes straight to the "beef" milestone - it has always been the highest target since its founding. They have Shulamit Levenberg, chairman of the biomedical engineering department of Israbel's Technion Institute, serving as chairman of the science committee; Neta Lavon, a researcher of rice stem cells, is the vice president of R&D research and development.

Instead of creating just one or two types of animal cells on a flat surface, Aleph forms four types of animal cells that can exist in three-dimensional environments. The company also stated that in an environment with no embryonic serum of cows - standard solutions used in laboratories, are intended to nourish cells.

Toubia says that the meat they display takes 2-3 weeks to form, with production costs of about $ 50 a piece.

"We are the only company capable of making a complete piece of meat with all the muscle fibers and color circuits - all the components that make up the necessary structure of a piece of meat and allow the tissues to connect together." , Toubia told Business Insider.

The Aleph calls the experimental "beef a minute" version of artificial beef, because just a few minutes of cooking it is cooked. Not only did the scientists say that, chef Amir Ilan, who personally prepared artificial beef, also made similar claims.

The future of artificial meat to replace meat taken from farmed cows is very close.