@upsidefoods

class="content__text" Cultivated meat. It’s science (but not rocket science). Read on to learn about our process. Rather than raising whole chickens, pigs, or cows, we grow only the meat we want to eat—directly from real animal cells. At scale, it will be a more humane and future-friendly way to grow high-quality food for meat lovers everywhere. We do this in four steps: 01 SOURCE The process begins by taking a small amount of cells from an animals. We created our first product, chicken, from a fertilized heritage-breed chicken egg 02 SELECT Our team selects the best cells – based on their ability to consistently and efficiently produce safe, high-quality meat – to develop a cell line. 03 CULTIVATE We kick off the cultivation process by placing cells from a selected cell line into a cultivator and feeding them with a blend of nutrients, which includes water, sugars, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and salt. As these small batches of cells, called seed trains, multiply, we increase the size (and/or number) of the cultivators to give them more space to grow. 04 FORMULATE After two to three weeks, our meat is ready for harvest. We remove it from the cultivator(s) and separate it from the cell feed. We then take this harvested meat and (in the case of our first product) mold it into the shape of a chicken filet. Other products may be seasoned, breaded, or otherwise formulated before they are refrigerated or frozen and packaged for distribution...Next, our products are either refrigerated or frozen and packaged for distribution. Now all that’s left is to cook, eat, and enjoy! #UPSIDEFoods #CultivatedMeat #FoodInnovation

June 07, 2023