Israel's Aleph Farms food tech startup is nearing the transition of its cultivated slaughter-free thin-cut beef steaks into five proprietary modules for its mass production platform, the company announced Wednesday.
The Rehovot-based company's steaks are grown directly from non-GMO cells of a living cow. Aleph Farms says its product offers the nutritional, culinary, and sensory attributes of conventionally produced meat.
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The prototype of its commercial product will be first introduced at the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit in Singapore on Nov. 20 in a virtual cooking demonstration hosted by Aleph Farms' resident chef, Amir Ilan.
The move marks a major leap in Aleph Farms' goal of making cultivated meat widely available in the global community. The company is currently transitioning its commercial products to its pilot plant, and intends to launch at the end of 2022.
"One of the big challenges of cultivated meat is the ability to produce large quantities efficiently at a cost that can compete with conventional meat industry pricing, without compromising on quality," says Aleph Farms co-founder and CEO Didier Toubia.
"We have developed five technological building blocks unique to Aleph Farms that are put into a large-scale production process, all patented by the company," Toubia says.
Aleph Farms' technique for meat cultivation mirror the natural process of tissue regeneration processes that occur in an animal's body, in controlled conditions. The startup has designed patented tissue cultivators to facilitate the biological process occurring in vivo, providing the warmth and basic animal-free elements needed to build tissue in nature. This includes water, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals.
The process is designed to use a fraction of the resources required to raising an entire animal for meat, and without the need for antibiotics.
"Aleph Farms is establishing a new category of meat, imbued with its own culture and a new world of meaty experiences," enthuses Ilan, the company's chef-in-residence.
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