Project description
Plant-based technology for alternative whole-cut meat
Overpopulation, climate change and intensive animal farming are increasing the demand for alternatives to meat protein. The EU-funded NewMEAT project proposes a micro-extrusion process that bio-hacks the native 3D network structure of molecules of plant origin to generate whole cuts of meat composed of a patent-pending formulation of a natural-origin wide range of different vegetable proteins, fibres, oils, and aromas similar to the traditional animal meat. This advanced and unique technology relies on tissue engineering, food science and 3D printing and allows a cost-efficient and highly scalable production. NewMEAT achieves multiple nutritional, flavour and texturisation profiles like animal whole cuts of meat and does not contain soy.
Objective
Due to the current overpopulation, climate change and aggressive animal farming problems, there is an urgent need for the next generation of alternative proteins meat. Based on tissue engineering, food science and 3D printing, NOVAMEAT has developed a micro-extrusion process that can bio-hack the native 3D network structure of molecules of plant origin creating the microstructure and anisotropic morphology like that of traditional animal meat in a cost-efficient and highly scalable manner. NOVAMEAT´s advanced and unique technology. The results are pieces of whole-cuts meat composed of a patent-pending formulation of a natural-origin wide range of different vegetable proteins, fibres, oils, and aromas that enable NewMEAT to achieve multiple varieties of nutritional, flavour and texturization profiles as animal whole-cut meats. NewMEAT does not contain soy but is composed of sustainable ingredients with much lower environmental impact, to support resilient agriculture and animal welfare.
Fields of science
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- medical and health sciencesmedical biotechnologytissue engineering
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturehorticulturevegetable growing
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedomestic animalsanimal husbandry
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringadditive manufacturing
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedCoordinator
08018 BARCELONA
Spain
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.