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Novameat plans to sell its "steaks" directly to consumers and to
businesses such as restaurants interested in producing
plant-based meat, business development manager Alexandre Campos
told Reuters on Tuesday.
The Spanish company, which developed its technology in 2018, was
showing how its latest 3D printer produced food at Barcelona's
Mobile World Congress (MWC).
"It didn't have the feeling of a traditional steak but I was
positively surprised because I did not expect that the texture
would be so well achieved," said Ferran Gregori, after trying
one of the "steaks" printed at Novameat's stand at the world's
largest telecoms gathering.
The company uses 3D technology to test recipes, introducing
ingredients through capsules because it is a cheaper process
than mass-producing, Campos said.
Once a model is considered successful, it could then be produced
on a larger scale in bigger machines not using 3D technology,
manufacturing up to 500 kg of fake meat per hour, he added.
Campos said the startup's aim had been to recreate the muscle
fibres of animal meat but using 100% plant-based ingredients. He
forecast the plant-based industry would keep growing at
double-digit rates in the foreseeable future.
The company also said it was producing the fake meat for
environmental reasons.
"(We seek to) replace animal meat for something that is better
for the planet, ourselves and animals," Campos said.
(Reporting by Luis Felipe Castilleja, writing by Joan Faus,
editing by Robin Emmott and Mike Collett-White)
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