DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-996-9-0335

NEW APPROACHES IN ALTERNATIVE PROTEIN PRODUCTION

Vladislav Strmiska¹, Nela Jandová^1,2, Vladimíra Tarbajová^1,2, Petra Coufalová¹, Martina Koláčková^1,2, Dalibor Húska^1,2, Rostislav Brzobohatý¹, Roman Lauš¹

¹ Mewery s.r.o., Moravské náměstí 13, 602 00 Brno

² Ústav chemie a biochemie, Agronomická fakulta, MENDELU, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno

The alternative protein industry is bringing new challenges into conventional food processing field. New nutritional composition, longer shelf-life, different production presses are only a few of discussed differences of this fast-evolving food industry sector. Cultivated meat is one of today's key trends in sustainable food sourcing with major positive environmental impacts such as dramatic reductions in water, arable land, and CO2 consumption per kg of meat compared to traditional livestock farming; dozens of companies around the world are engaged in research in this area. Mewery is a biotechnology startup based in Brno, Czech Republic (est. 2020) with the ambition to bring cultivated pork meat to the global market, i.e., meat grown from cells in a controlled environment without the need to slaughter the animal. Its vision is to contribute to tackling global climate change by disrupting preconceived ideas about the need for complex farming of domestic animals for slaughter and food.

Keywords: alternative protein, cultivated meat, pork, microalgae

pages: 335-336, online: 2024