NEW DELHI: South Korean scientists have grown beef cells in rice grains to interchange farmed cattle for meat consumption and obtain an environmentally pleasant supply of protein.
Professor Jinkee Hong who led the analysis has mentioned that “beef rice” is the primary product of its type because it makes use of grain particles as the bottom for cultivating animal muscle and fats cells.
The researchers at Yonsei College handled rice grains with enzymes to create an appropriate surroundings for cell development earlier than infusing it with bovine cells which might be cultivated to realize a last hybrid product, resembling pinkish rice grain.
“If efficiently developed into meals merchandise, cultured beef rice may function a sustainable protein supply, significantly in environments the place conventional livestock farming is impractical,” the Yonsei group mentioned.
Hong mentioned that the protein is eighteen per cent animal-based which makes the meat rice wealthy supply of important amino acids. Aside from that, it accommodates round 8% extra protein and seven% extra fats than common rice.
Nevertheless, this isn’t the primary time that an experiment has been completed on lab-grown meat merchandise. Plant-based rooster and eel cultivated from a soy base have already discovered a spot within the Singapore market. “Beef rice” researchers mentioned that it will be comparatively extra useful than soy and nuts as fewer are allergic to it.
Priced at about $2 per kilogramme (2.2 lbs) and with a much smaller carbon footprint than conventional beef merchandise, cultured beef rice may compete on grocery cabinets, Hong mentioned.
Keum Dong-kyu, who sampled the rice beef at Seoul’s Korean barbecue restaurant, known as the concept revolutionary.
“However actually, I do not assume it will probably replicate the juiciness or texture of actual beef,” Keum mentioned.
Professor Jinkee Hong who led the analysis has mentioned that “beef rice” is the primary product of its type because it makes use of grain particles as the bottom for cultivating animal muscle and fats cells.
The researchers at Yonsei College handled rice grains with enzymes to create an appropriate surroundings for cell development earlier than infusing it with bovine cells which might be cultivated to realize a last hybrid product, resembling pinkish rice grain.
“If efficiently developed into meals merchandise, cultured beef rice may function a sustainable protein supply, significantly in environments the place conventional livestock farming is impractical,” the Yonsei group mentioned.
Hong mentioned that the protein is eighteen per cent animal-based which makes the meat rice wealthy supply of important amino acids. Aside from that, it accommodates round 8% extra protein and seven% extra fats than common rice.
Nevertheless, this isn’t the primary time that an experiment has been completed on lab-grown meat merchandise. Plant-based rooster and eel cultivated from a soy base have already discovered a spot within the Singapore market. “Beef rice” researchers mentioned that it will be comparatively extra useful than soy and nuts as fewer are allergic to it.
Priced at about $2 per kilogramme (2.2 lbs) and with a much smaller carbon footprint than conventional beef merchandise, cultured beef rice may compete on grocery cabinets, Hong mentioned.
Keum Dong-kyu, who sampled the rice beef at Seoul’s Korean barbecue restaurant, known as the concept revolutionary.
“However actually, I do not assume it will probably replicate the juiciness or texture of actual beef,” Keum mentioned.
(With Reuters inputs)
