Aleph Farms Artificial Ribeye Steak

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• 3D meat printing

2024: Permission to sell in Israel

On January 17, 2024, the Ministry health care Israel announced that the country had approved the sale cultured meat of beef for the first time in the world. The corresponding permission was received by the Israeli startup in the field of food technology. Aleph Farms

The firm, Aleph Farms, was founded in 2017. After several years of research and development, the company introduced products such as cultured beef steak with thin slicing and artificial ribeye steak. Under the Aleph Cuts brand, the company produces its first product - beef grown on the basis of unmodified Black Angus cow cells and a plant protein matrix of soybeans and wheat.

Artificial steak from Aleph Farms

Permission from the Israeli Ministry of Health allows Aleph Farms to sell artificial beef, subject to certain requirements in terms of labeling and marketing. In addition, pilot production must pass the necessary checks. The process of making such meat involves taking cell samples from a living animal and then growing them in a special cultivator that simulates conditions in the cow's body. The cells combine with plant proteins of soybeans and wheat. The product is said to taste different from traditional meat substitutes like soy texturate.

It is noted that since its founding, Aleph Farms has raised about $140 million, and actor Leonardo DiCaprio is a member of its advisory board. Initially, the company will supply cultured beef to restaurants. Then such meat will go to other catering establishments and retail chains. Aleph Farms has also filed applications to start selling artificial meat to regulators in other countries, particularly Britain and Switzerland.^[1]

2021: Creating an artificial steak

On March 11, 2021, it became known that an Israeli company developing meat from cow cells, Aleph Farms and biomedical engineering researchers from the Technion Institute of Technology, announced that they had created the world's first ribeye steak without slaughtering an animal, by growing cells and 3D bioprinting^[2].

A little more than two years after Israeli startup Aleph Farms introduced lab steak, the company introduced a much more sophisticated, thick rib-eye steak. The company offers to grow using 3D bioprinting technology and can now produce laboratory iterations of any type of steak.

Lab-grown meat, also known as cultured meat or pure meat, has been booming in the past few years. Within a decade, scientists had gone from producing 'raw pork' in the lab to growing chicken nuggets, which hit the shelves of the Singapore market after receiving regulatory approval. One of the biggest challenges scientists face when creating meat products without slaughter is replicating the many pieces of meat consumers are used to eating.

In 2018, Aleph Farms introduced the world's first lab-grown steak to mimic the cellular structure of thin steak. Now, the company has shown the creation of a more sophisticated, thick rib eye steak produced using 3D bioprinting technology. {{quote 'Unlike 3D printing technology, our technology 3D- bioprinting is printing real living cells, which are then incubated for growth, differentiation and interaction to obtain the texture and qualities of a real steak, says Alef Farms in a recent interview.

A patented vascularization-like system that occurs naturally in tissues provides nutrient perfusion through thicker tissues and gives the steak a shape and structure similar to its natural form, as in livestock before and during cooking.}}

With cows, the breed plays an important role, but the quality depends on the feed. It's the same with our cultured meat, "Tubia said in a recent interview with the Washington Post. We control the growing process and can develop meat specifically for the market by regulating the amount of collagen, connective tissue and fat so that the meat meets specific requirements.

The 3D bioprinting technology has been developed over the past two years with Aleph Farms research partner, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Despite rapid technological advances, lab-grown meat has yet to appear on most consumers' shelves. For March 2021, Singapore is the only region in the world that has approved lab-grown meat for sale. Aleph Farms and Food Industry GroupMitsubishi Corporation joined forces in Japan to begin developing production and distribution facilities in preparation for future market approval^[3].

In 2019, Aleph Farms collaborated with a Russian 3D bioprinting company to grow artificial beef on the International Space Station, demonstrating that such meat can be a nutritious food for people making long-distance flights^[4].

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