“Most Realistic” 3D Printed Plant Based “Steak”

Plant Based News reports on Spanish startup NovaMeat, which has apparently developed the “most realistic” 3D printed plant based “steak.”

“The vegan meat extrudes ingredients such as pea, seaweed, and beetroot juice into fine fibers” in order to replicate muscle tissue. NovaMeat aims to launch their additively manufactured meat “in select restaurants in Spain and Italy first and scale up on production next year.”

NovaMeat’s 3D printed plant based “steak” currently weighs 50 grams and is priced at $1.50, “but is predicted to lower even more in price as the company aims to use a plant capable of producing 50kg of vegan ‘steak’ per hour in 2021.”

As NovaMeat’s Founder Giuseppe Scionti explains: “I started with steak because it is the holy grail of plant based ‘meat.’ We are still experimenting with the taste.”

Indeed, The Good Food Institute (GFI)’s Director of Science and Technology David Welch supports NovaMeat: “to meet the growing demand for ‘meat’ with more sustainable plant based products, we need to deliver the taste, texture, and appearance carnivores crave.”

“NovaMeat’s bioprinting based technology provides a flexible and tunable method of producing plant based ‘meat’, with the utility to create different textures from a wide variety of ingredients all within a single piece of ‘meat.’”

Image and Quotes Courtesy of Plant Based News