Both in the restaurant market and the financial industry, there is considerable attention to a product, that is, artificial meat. Artificial meat began to appear this year. Not only are restaurant chains racing to launch the new product, but financial leaders like Li Ka-shing and Warren Buffett have also jumped on the artificial meat bandwagon.

There are two types of artificial meat, one of which is also called soy protein meat. Artificial meat is mainly made of soy protein, and because it is rich in a lot of protein and a small amount of fat, artificial meat is a healthy food. Another kind of artificial meat is made from animal stem cells.

Soy protein meat is actually a soy product that mimics the shape and flavor of meat. Artificial meat made from animal stem cells is used by researchers to "feed" stem cells sugar, amino acids, oils, minerals, and various nutrients to keep them "growing".

April 2, 2015 - Mark Post, a professor of physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, argues that in addition to being as tasty as natural beef, artificial beef will be superior to natural beef in all other respects within 10 years, thus solving the environmental and animal protection problems facing beef production today. Eighteen months ago, he saw the first batch of "artificial beef" made from bovine muscle stem cells.

Recently, there has also been new news about the development of "artificial meat" in China. China's first generation of "artificial meat" products, developed by Li Jian, an associate professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology's School of Food and Health, in collaboration with a vegetable meat brand, are expected to hit the market in September, according to the report. The first product to be launched will be a plant-based "artificial meat" mooncake modeled after the fresh meat mooncakes of old Shanghai. Currently, there are many old Shanghainese in Shanghai. Besides the similarity in flavor, the real selling point of the artificial meat mooncake is the nutritional content, as plant protein has the natural advantage of zero cholesterol.

But now, artificial meat has been exposed to a low-nutrient environment for a long time and is not suitable for people to consume as a meat substitute. The proteins in meat are not very good substitutes, so the future of artificial meat is still full of uncertainty.