What is artificial meat made up of and how is it created?
In: Chemistry
You have two kinds of artificial meat:
* Plant-based synthetic meat, which is made from various plant proteins that are structurally similar to the muscle tissue that makes up real meat.
* Genuine artificial meat (which is not yet commercially available – last I read about it researchers had successfully produced the equivalent of food-safe ground beef, but the production costs were around $200 for a burger), often also known as cultured meat. Cultured meat is made by taking tissue/cell samples from animals and then growing muscle cells in a lab. This is essentially artificially-produced real meat – it has all the same components, but is grown in a lab rather than in an animal.
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