NEW TECH FOODS

US-based hybrid cultivated meat start-up SciFi Foods has closed down, citing fundraising challenges as its reason.

Scientists at Yonsei University in South Korea, have created a new type of food – a ‘beef-rice’ hybrid, made with beef muscle and fat cells.

Fork & Good hosts hybrid cell-based meet tasting in Switzerland, which saw 40 people blind taste-test the hybrid products.

Vital Meat has submitted a novel food pre-market regulatory dossier to the Singapore Food Agency to launch its cell-based chicken.

Shanghai-based cultivated meat start-up CellX has ventured into mycelium fermentation to expand its portfolio of alt-proteins.