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class="content__text" Unleash your inner geek and master the lingo our team uses as we launch our "Speak Like a Scientist" series. Get ready to drop jaws with your newfound scientific swagger as we elevate your vocab to EPIC levels! Skip ahead for the full list at the link in bio. #UPSIDEFoods #CultivatedMeat #SpeakLikeaScientist

June 07, 2023

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

class="content__text" UPSIDE’s Founder and CEO, Dr. Uma Valeti, published an op-ed in Food Tank to share how Cultivated Meat can help to remove animals from the equation. “But the holy grail of animal-free food is cultivated meat. Unlike plant-based meat substitutes, cultivated is not a “faux meat” or meat alternative—it is simply meat, grown directly from animal cells without the need to raise animals.” Read Uma’s full op-ed at the link in our bio. #UPSIDEFoods #CultivatedMeat #FoodInnovation

May 31, 2023

class="content__text" Everyone, meet Steve Bookbinder. Steve is our Sr. Manager of Food R&D and his team works with our food scientists and sensory experts to bring delicious UPSIDE products to life. Once our meat is harvested from our cultivators, Steve and his team take that raw ingredient and use in recipes to create a final dish that’s ready to eat - whether that’s a breakfast sausage, or a potsticker, or a chicken patty. Given his past past jobs as a cook, butcher, meat scientist, food consultant, and meat product developer, one could pretty easily argue that Steve has prepared his entire professional life for his current role at UPSIDE. Steve is a proud omnivore and is excited for a future where cultivated meats can satisfy cravings for the traditional meat products we all know and love. #UPSIDEFoods #CultivatedMeat #InsideUPSIDE

May 24, 2023

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May 14, 2023

class="content__text" Ever wondered what makes the meal you eat so deliciously flavorful and appealing? Enter the Maillard Reaction! (Pronounced: “my-yar”) 🍲The Maillard Reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs when amino acids and sugars are heated together, which results in a browning effect on the surface of the food - AND creates new flavors and aromas. But the Maillard Reaction isn’t just about taste – it’s also about texture! This reaction is responsible for the delicious crust on your steak, the sear on your chicken, and the crispiness of your fish skin. The reaction can create a crisp exterior on foods while keeping the interior tender and juicy. Yummy stuff. 🍲UPSIDE chicken owes its ability to become golden brown and delicious to a specific composition of amino acids and proteins found only in meats, which explains why cultivated meat has the same Maillard Reaction as conventional meat. So, the next time you bite into a perfectly grilled piece of meat, remember that it’s all thanks to the Maillard reaction. Know someone who would find this as fascinating as we do? Tag them in the comments or share this post using #UPSIDEFoods! #CultivatedMeat #UPSIDE101 #eatUP

May 14, 2023

class="content__text" Deciding what cultivated meat dish to try for the first time is going to get tricky. But it doesn’t have to. We’re making things easier right this minute 😎🙌 How? Well, just screenshot the video to land a delicious UPSIDE dish. Whatever you get is what your taste buds should try first. Simple! Tell us what you got in the comments, and tag the person you would (or wouldn’t 😝) share your dish with! #UPSIDEFoods #CultivatedMeat #eatUP #RecipeOfTheDay

May 14, 2023

class="content__text" Exciting news! 🎉 You know that we'll launch with our delicious UPSIDE chicken filet, but we won't stop there! We're working on all kinds of mouth-watering fare, including breakfast sausage 🍳, dumplings 🥟, and chicken sausage 🌭 that will make your taste buds dance. 🕺💃 These tasty ground products made from real animal cells, along with other ingredients like herbs, vegetables, spices, and plant-based proteins, aren't just delicious and versatile; they're also helping us scale faster so that we make cultivated more accessible. These delicious items, and more, are in the works now. 🐔🌱🌶️ Stay tuned for updates! #UPSIDEFoods #CultivatedMeat #CultivatedChicken

May 14, 2023

class="content__text" The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the second group, along with the FDA, responsible for ensuring that the food America eats is safe. But what exactly is the USDA, why does it exist, and how does it ensure our safety? Let’s dig in! 👉The USDA is a federal agency in charge of agriculture and food production in the US. It was founded in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln, and since then, it has played a critical role in ensuring the safety of our food supply. The USDA is charged with regulating and inspecting meat, poultry, and egg products, as well as creating national dietary guidelines and managing nutrition assistance programs like SNAP. 👉In conventional meat production, the FDA oversees everything until the point of slaughter, at which point the USDA takes over. In cultivated meat production, this transition takes place when the cells are removed from their nutrient source. At UPSIDE, the USDA will inspect our facility and is responsible for label approval. Just like in conventional meat factories, there'll be an inspector on-site for every production run! UPSIDE’s cultivated chicken will be available to consumers following USDA inspection and label approval. Know someone who would find this as fascinating as we do? Tag them in the comments👇 and share using #UPSIDEFoods! #CultivatedMeat #USDA #foodregulation #UPSIDEtrivia

May 14, 2023

class="content__text" Danielle LaFramboise-Dodd (they/them), or yelley as they’re known here at UPSIDE, is our Senior Manager of Food Safety and Quality Assurance. yelley and their team works with each production and manufacturing department to ensure our ingredients, processes, and finished products are of the best quality and meet our high standards for safety. yelley’s first real job after earning their degree in biology was in the biopharma world at a vaccine manufacturing facility in Michigan. They didn’t know it at the time, but it was the beginning of their path toward a career in cultivated meat! Since then, yelley has spent over 15 years in the food industry, ranging from agricultural field sampling in the Salinas Valley, food microbiology testing in accredited laboratories, overseeing quality and safety in manufacturing facilities, and managing quality and safety programs for distribution centers and retail grocery. Their broad range of food industry experience plus their formative years in biopharma combine to form a unique skill set that has been critical in building our food safety, quality, and regulatory compliance programs here at UPSIDE Foods. #UPSIDEFoods #CultivatedMeat #beforeUPSIDE

April 14, 2023

class="content__text" Feast your eyes on the exciting changes we’ve made at upsidefoods.com! Our super-fresh website offers lots to sink your teeth into, including: 📸 Our delicious products 💡 A virtual tour of our EPIC facility 🐔 Peek into our process 👨‍🔬 Check out how the (proverbial) sausage is made 🌎 Explore what the world could look like and our vision of progress We can’t wait to hear what your favorite parts of the new website are (please drop them in the comments!) - we’ll start! You already know that all the meat we show is UPSIDE meat, but now, all models on our website are UPSIDErs, too! 👩‍💻✨🎬 🥳 #UPSIDEFoods #CultivatedMeat #eatUP

April 14, 2023

class="content__text" We’ve talked a lot about the FDA (or the U.S. Food and Drug Administration). It’s one of the two regulatory groups responsible for assuring the safety of America’s food supply. For UPSIDE, the FDA has reviewed our process and accepted that our cultivated chicken is safe to eat. We call that the ‘FDA green light’, and we’re the first cultivated meat company in the world to have it! But what is the FDA, why does it exist, and how else does it ensure your safety? Let’s dig in. 👉The FDA was established over 100 years ago, in 1906, with a mission to protect public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. So yeah, the FDA makes sure just about everything you put on and in your body is safe. 👉Throughout its history, the FDA has played a crucial role in protecting consumers from harmful products, conducting research to improve public health, and providing accurate information to the public. You could say they leave no measure unturned. Know someone who would find this as fascinating as we do? Tag them in the comments 👇or share using #UPSIDEFoods! Source: https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-history #UPSIDEFoods #CultivatedMeat #UPSIDETrivia

April 14, 2023