On November 25, artificial meat was officially sold on an e-commerce platform, with pork, chicken and other flavors. Among them, the price of 230g pork flavor is 28 yuan, while the price abroad is as high as 1550 yuan / kg, which is only one fifteenth of that abroad.
Since the introduction of the concept of artificial meat, its related topics have been hot discussed by people. Since this year, many media have predicted that artificial meat will be on the people's table and become one of our daily ingredients within two years.
In fact, artificial meat is divided into 'plant meat' and 'cell meat'. At present, meat products such as beyond meat and omnipork, which enter the consumer market, are plant meat that uses plant derived proteins as raw materials and changes the protein structure through physical methods, so as to simulate the appearance and taste of real meat.
Xue Yan, Secretary General of China plant food industry alliance, said that McDonald's and Burger King brands have launched plant meat hamburgers and other products in North America, Europe and other places. If imported plant meat can be produced locally or enter the catering channel on a large scale, the cost will be greatly reduced in the future, reaching the price similar to that of imported beef.
In the past, artificial meat was food for astronauts. Most of the meat made by predecessors is also directly supplied to restaurants, and ordinary consumers can't buy it directly for cooking. In the future, artificial meat may replace traditional meat and put it on the table of ordinary people.