Steakholder Foods 3D bio-printed the world's first
cultivated fish fillet:
- The Company has reached a significant milestone by
successfully customizing bio-inks utilizing grouper cells provided
by Umami Meats' to print a cultivated grouper product – a
significant step towards the commercialization of its 3D
bioprinter.
- By customizing its bio-inks to an external cell line, the
company has opened the door to a wide variety of potential
collaborations along the path to commercializing its 3D
bio-printer.
REHOVOT, Israel, April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Steakholder Foods
Ltd. (NASDAQ: STKH), an international deep tech food company at the
forefront of the cultivated meat industry, announced that it has
successfully printed the first ready-to-cook cultivated grouper
fish product. As part of the strategic partnership between the two
companies, Steakholder Foods customized its bio-inks utilizing
grouper cells provided by Umami Meats Pte Ltd.
To celebrate this achievement, Steakholder Foods hosted
Mihir Pershad (CEO of Umami Meats),
Arik Kaufman (CEO of Steakholder
Foods), Megumi Avigail Yoshitomi
(Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture), and Adele Li (Chargée d' Affaires at the Embassy of
the Republic of Singapore in
Israel) at a tasting event in its
Israel facilities. The tasting
included a "grouper fish chef's table", with piscine delicacies
prepared by the Company's chef, Moran
Lidor, including Singaporean-style and Israeli-style
signature fish dishes. The event came hot on the heels of the visit
of the Israeli Prime Minister, who also watched the fish being
printed firsthand and tasted the prototype, becoming the first
Prime Minister ever to taste 3D-printed cultivated fish.
The printing and bio-ink customization are steps on the path to
commercializing Steakholder Foods' 3D printer, proving its
bioprinting and bioink technologies to be a sophisticated
production platform for structured hybrid and cultivated products,
that can facilitate various species and therefore various companies
and industry players.
The collaboration with Umami Meats, which is backed by a grant
from the Singapore-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation, aims to
develop a scalable process for producing structured cultivated fish
products using Steakholder Foods' proprietary 3D bio-printing
technology and customized bio-inks.
Since receiving grouper fish cells from Umami, the Steakholder
Foods team has been hard at work creating customized bio-inks and
optimizing the taste and texture of its printed grouper, towards
finalizing a prototype. The 3D fish printing represents a
successful and meaningful milestone in the partnership between
Umami Meats and Steakholder Foods.
Unlike fully cultivated meat products which still require
incubation and maturation after printing, the grouper fish product
is ready to cook after printing, thanks to Steakholder Foods'
unique technology that allows the mimicking of the flaky texture of
cooked fish – a technology that is the subject of a provisional
patent application.
Arik Kaufman, CEO of
Steakholder Foods: "We're excited to be working with Umami
Meats to develop 3D-printed structured fish products that have the
same great taste and texture as traditionally caught fish, without
harming the environment. With an estimated size of $110 billion and projected growth of 3-4%
annually in the near future, the seafood and fish market is a
long-time part of our vision for introducing sustainable solutions
that increase food security. Having created a customized bio-ink
that works effectively with Umami's cells and optimized the taste
and texture to meet the high standards of consumers, we anticipate
expanding our collaborations to a greater variety of species with
additional partners."
Mihir Pershad, CEO of Umami
Meats: "We are delighted to have produced the world's first
whole fillet cultivated fish in partnership with Steakholder Foods.
In this first tasting, we showcased a cultivated product that
flakes, tastes, and melts in your mouth exactly like excellent fish
should. In the coming months, we intend to announce our plans for
bringing this world-class cultivated fish to the market."
About Steakholder Foods
Steakholder Foods Ltd., formerly MeaTech 3D Ltd., is an
international deep-tech food company at the forefront of the
cultured meat revolution. The company-initiated activities in 2019
and is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker "STKH"
(formerly MITC), with headquarters in Rehovot, Israel.
The company is developing a slaughter-free solution for
producing a variety of beef, and seafood products — both as raw
materials and whole cuts — as an alternative to industrialized
farming and fishing. With its membership in the UN Global Compact,
Steakholder Foods is committed to act in support of issues embodied
in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which
include strengthening food security, decreasing carbon footprint,
and conserving water and land resources.
For more information, please visit:
https://steakholderfoods.com.
About Umami Meats
Umami Meats is cultivating a sustainable seafood future by
producing delicious, nutritious, affordable cultivated seafood that
is better for our health, our oceans and our future. Umami Meats'
cultivated, not-caught seafood offers equivalent nutrition to
traditional seafood and provides a delicious culinary experience
free from heavy metals, antibiotics, and microplastics.
Umami Meats has also been recognized as a semi-finalist in the
XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion competition, a finalist in the Fi
Global Startup Innovation Challenge, a member of Forward Fooding's
2021 FoodTech 500 list, and as the Best Emerging Sustainable
Seafood Company – Southeast Asia
in the 2021 Global Green Business Awards.
About SIIRD
The Singapore Israel Industrial R&D Foundation (SIIRD) is a
cooperation between the Enterprise Singapore (ESG) and the Israel
Innovation Authority to promote, facilitate and support joint
industrial R&D collaboration between Singapore-based companies and Israel-based companies across different
industries. SIIRD seeks to promote research and development in
Singapore and Israel by helping Singapore-based and Israel-based companies with R&D Partner
Search, and providing up to US $1M in
funding for joint R&D projects or pilot projects between
them.
Forward-Looking Statements
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concerning Steakholder Foods' business, operations and financial
performance and condition as well as plans, objectives, and
expectations for Steakholder Foods' business operations and
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limitation, Steakholder Foods' expectations regarding the success
of its cultured meat manufacturing technologies it is developing,
which will require significant additional work before Steakholder
Foods can potentially launch commercial sales; Steakholder Foods'
research and development activities associated with technologies
for cultured meat manufacturing, including three-dimensional meat
production, which involves a lengthy and complex process;
Steakholder Foods' ability to obtain and enforce its intellectual
property rights and to operate its business without infringing,
misappropriating, or otherwise violating the intellectual property
rights and proprietary technology of third parties; and other risks
and uncertainties, including those identified in Steakholder Foods'
Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on April 4,
2023. New risks and uncertainties may emerge from time to
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occurrence or how they will affect Steakholder Foods. If one or
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