There are two kinds of artificial meat, one of which is also called soybean protein meat. Artificial meat is mainly made of soybean protein, because it contains a lot of protein and a little fat, so artificial meat is a healthy food. The other is artificial meat made from animal stem cells.

Soy protein meat is actually a kind of bean product that imitates the color and taste of meat. Using artificial meat made from animal stem cells, researchers "feed" the stem cells with sugar, amino acids, oils, minerals and various nutrients to make them "grow up" continuously.

On April 2, 215, Mark Post, a professor of physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, thought that in 1 years, artificial beef would be as delicious as natural beef and superior to natural beef in other aspects, thus solving the environmental and animal protection problems faced by beef production today. Eighteen months ago, he witnessed the first "artificial beef" made by bovine muscle stem cells.

on April 28th, 22, a foreign fast food enterprise started the "planting and cultivating" chicken nuggets in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Since mid-April, several other international chain catering enterprises have also launched tasting products around "artificial meat".

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The significance of studying artificial meat

The emergence of artificial meat has its historical inevitability. When science and technology develop to a certain stage, it will become its historical mission to bring high-tech into real life, seek benefits for human society and make due contributions to the earth where we live.

cholesterol and fat in animal meat are ingested into human body and are high in fat. However, artificial meat is different. The mainstream artificial meat in the market is made of vegetable protein. By controlling the content of fat and other nutrients in meat, it can be cultivated into "meat" suitable for all kinds of people, without cholesterol.

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