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    Home»World»Fake meat moves beyond burgers with money for printing steaks

    Fake meat moves beyond burgers with money for printing steaks

    World By Agency Staff16 February 2021
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    Juicy sirloin steaks hot off a 3D printer are on the menu this year as the booming faux meat market bids to lure even die-hard carnivores.

    Israel’s Redefine Meat is targeting steak houses and other restaurants in Israel, Europe and Asia with its 3D-printed facsimiles of beef cuts, from fillet to rump and brisket. The start-up has just raised US$29-million in funding to build a large-scale pilot factory and begin sales later this year, it said on Tuesday.

    “We want to change the belief that delicious meat can only come from animals,” CEO Eshchar Ben-Shitrit said. “We have all the building blocks in place to make this a reality.”

    We want to change the belief that delicious meat can only come from animals. We have all the building blocks in place to make this a reality

    Alternative-protein demand has boomed in recent years as environmental and health concerns drive consumers to products like faux burgers or nuggets. That’s attracted venture capital investors and food giants from Nestle to McDonald’s, although more needs to be done to improve the taste of products and lower prices to compete with conventional meat.

    Redefine is trying to take plant-based products to the next level by giving diners the same sensory experience as eating prime beef. Last week, another Israeli start-up, Aleph Farms, unveiled the world’s first slaughter-free ribeye steak. While Redefine is still working on flavour, 3D printers loaded with plant-based “ink” can print the meat countless times and deliver a complex layering of muscle and fat to recreate the right texture.

    ‘You cannot distinguish’

    “Our meat today versus some other cuts of meat are the same,” the Redefine CEO said in an interview. “You cannot distinguish.”

    The company has distribution partners in Israel, Germany, Switzerland and Singapore. Redefine’s financing round, led by Happiness Capital and Hanaco Ventures, is the highest series-A funding for any alternative protein start-up, data from researcher Dealroom shows.

    The funding is “a major step towards becoming the world’s biggest alternative meat company by 2030”, Ben-Shitrit said.  — Reported by Agnieszka de Sousa and Ivan Levingston, (c) 2021 Bloomberg LP

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