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Typically, vegan burgers from companies like Impossible Foods
and Beyond Meat are frozen and later cooked on a grill.
SavorEat's technology, however, are made on site by a
self-contained 3D printer with three cartridges containing oils
and other ingredients. Customers can choose how much fat and
protein they want in each burger, which takes about six minutes
to cook.
"It's a mix of innovation of meat alternative and digital
manufacturing where we can also cook the product," Racheli
Vizman, SavorEat's chief executive, told Reuters.
She said the firm's burgers are made with a combination of
potato and chickpea and pea protein.
Demand for meat alternatives by health and environmentally
conscious consumers has jumped in recent years, while
alternative protein startups raised more than $3 billion in
2020.
Another Israeli company, Redefine Meat, last month started to
deploy meatless whole cuts in European restaurants.
SavorEat, funded mainly by Israeli institutions and whose Tel
Aviv-listed shares rose 11% on Tuesday, said its products would
initially be served at a local burger chain.
The company is also collaborating with food service firm Yarzin
Sela that supplies Israeli high-tech companies and forged a deal
with Sodexo to serve its vegan burgers to U.S. universities.
"There is a growing segment of people called 'flexiterian' --
people that are actively trying to look for meat alternatives to
reduce their meat consumption," Vizman said, citing about
one-third of the U.S. population.
Oded Shoseyov, chairman and chief scientist of SavorEat, said
the firm is also working on a plant-based version of a pork
breakfast sausage for the U.S. market.
(Reporting by Steven Scheer; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
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