ABC Newsさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ABC NewsInstagram)「Forget your hook, line and sinker. An Israeli foodtech company says it has 3D printed the first ever ready-to-cook fish fillet using animal cells cultivated and grown in a laboratory. Lab-grown beef and chicken have drawn attention as a way to sidestep the environmental toll of farming and tackle concerns over animal welfare, but few companies have forayed into seafood. Israel's Steakholder Foods has now partnered with Singapore-based Umami Meats to make fish fillets without the need to stalk dwindling fish populations. Umami Meats extracts cells - for now from grouper - and grows them into muscle and fat. Steakholder Foods then adds them to a 'bio-ink' suited for special 3D printers. The outcome: a narrow fillet that mimics the properties of sea-caught fish. Umami hopes to bring its first products to market next year, starting in Singapore and then, pending regulation, countries like the United States and Japan. Cell cultivation alone is still too expensive to match the cost of traditional seafood, so for now the fish cells are diluted with plant-based ingredients in the bio-ink. "The process is clean, it's transparent. The end product is antibiotics free and I assume that in the future we will understand the health benefits of these cultivated meat products," said Arik Kaufman, the chief executive of Steakholder Foods. According to Kaufman, as time goes by, the complexity and level of the products will be higher, and production prices will decrease. A glass dish slides back and forth in the 3D printer, the white finger-length fillet building mass with each pass. It has the flakiness of traditional fish and when fried and seasoned it is hard to tell the difference. "I can feel the same, almost the same.. experience of the fish structure in my mouth. And I'm also, really amazed by the juiciness and also the kind of a buttery feel in my mouth," said Megumi Avigail Yoshitomi, representative director of Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture, who attended a tasting event at the company's headquarters in Rehovot. #news #food #eating #fish #3dprinting #tech #science」5月4日 18時00分