Spain: Michelin-starred restaurant will cook 3D printed vegetable meat
Spain: Michelin-starred restaurant will cook 3D printed vegetable meat

Video: Spain: Michelin-starred restaurant will cook 3D printed vegetable meat

Video: Spain: Michelin-starred restaurant will cook 3D printed vegetable meat
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In Spain a curious and certainly ingenious collaboration was born: the 3D printed vegetable meat will be proposed by a renowned starred restaurant.

Is called Nova meat, is a startup based in Barcelona that produces vegetable "meat" with 3D printers and it is she who has won the collaboration with the 2-star Michelin restaurant, Disfrutar, recently ranked ninth on the list of 50 best restaurants in the world. Ending up on a plate in a starred restaurant marks a turning point in the world of cooking, after the attempts also undertaken by an Israeli start-up with the first 3D printed vegetable steak.

The product was invented by a researcher of Italian origins. The CEO of Nova meat, Giuseppe Scionti, in fact, he had announced the development of a "meat" that combined a 3D printed plant structure a cultured animal cells. In order to achieve such a result, the company uses an innovative technology capable of structuring different proteins through microextrusion combined with 3D printing on an industrial scale.

The vegetable proteins thus synthesized give the "printed" food a fibrous texture and organoleptic properties that recall those of meat: at the moment, Nova meat is able to replicate with this technology chicken nuggets, minced meat and tunabut the challenge is to get to imitate whole cuts like steaks and fillets.

Oriol Castro, Mateu Casañas and Eduard Xatruch, the managers of Disfrutar, had worked as creative chefs in the restaurant El Bulli and are the inventors of the technique of spherification used in molecular gastronomy: now that they will implement a 3D printer developed by Nova meat for their restaurant, it certainly cannot be said that they are not able to look towards the future.

Furthermore, their collaboration has also found the consent of the Spanish government: in fact, it accompanied the project to a loan of € 250,000 obtained from Nova meat, thanks to a program of the CDTI (Center for Technological and Industrial Development), which already last year it had invested in another Iberian company always engaged in vegetable food.

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