There's been a growing trend towards meat substitutes in recent years, in a hope to minimise the climate damage caused by livestock production. Now, a bioengineering company in London is focused on manufacturing lab-cultivated fat, looking to make meat alternatives tastier.
"In usual plant based formulations and products. You have a lot of palm oil and you have a lot of coconut oil, and it just doesn't have that flavour. You know, the thing I'm after as a chef is flavour like number one, and it's the thing that's missing from all of these products." A January report on lab grown meat by analysts Research and Markets claimed the industry is projected to be worth a little under $3 billion dollars by 2035.
A study, which is yet to be peer-reviewed, from the University of California Davis makes this argument.