Vienna-based food-tech firm Revo Meals has partnered with Belgian plant-based meals developer Paleo to develop extra sensible 3D printed vegan salmon.
The challenge has acquired €2.2 million in funding from the European Union-backed Eureka Eurostars programme. This capital might be utilized by Paleo to create a specifically fermented Myoglobin protein, which might be added to Revo Meals’ 3D printed vegan salmon filet different: ‘THE FILET – Impressed by Salmon.’
Myoglobin is a heme protein important to the style and dietary worth of meat. Whereas often present in animal muscle tissue, it may be fermented and added to vegan options to offer the style, coloration, high-iron content material, and aroma of the actual factor.
In keeping with Revo Meals, 3D printing permits a number of supplies to be built-in into the salmon filet to boost meat-like properties. For example, fat will be mixed with protein parts to create an genuine white stripe. The corporate additionally claims that its 3D printing course of unlocks substantial sustainability benefits, saving as much as 90% of recent water and 75% of CO2 in comparison with typical fish merchandise.
Revo Meals and Paleo optimize 3D printed salmon
Revo Meals was based out of a 2017 EU-based additive manufacturing analysis challenge led by a gaggle of worldwide college students. The workforce developed an extrusion-based salmon 3D printing expertise initially known as Legendary Vish, it has since rebranded to Revo Meals and upscaled its manufacturing capabilities. Its 3D printed meat substitutes at the moment are accessible in supermarkets and choose eating places.
The corporate’s merchandise search to deal with the numerous environmental challenges presently dealing with the meat market. Revo Meals has attested that 90% of fish species are on the verge of exploitation, whereas 30% are being overfished.
Excessive toxin and microplastic ranges in fish merchandise are creating issues which have catalyzed altering attitudes within the $400 billion fish market. Notably, many sellers and shoppers are turning to meat-free options. To deal with this rising demand, Revo Meals launched ‘THE FILET’ in September final 12 months. 3D printed on the corporate’s Meals Fabricator 3D printer, the mycoprotein-based salmon was the primary 3D printed meals to be offered in supermarkets.
Now, with the brand new funding from Eureka Eurostars, Revo Meals’s 3D printed salmon filet is ready for an improve. The 2-year partnership with Paleo, which started in August 2024, will develop a brand new fermented Myoglobin to be added to the corporate’s salmon recipe. Paelo’s fermentation course of is totally freed from animal use and delivers a protein that options no genetically modified organisms (GMO).
The addition of Myoglobin is anticipated to make the vegan filet’s look, style, texture, and iron and protein content material extra intently mirror actual salmon, broadening its enchantment to extra prospects.
3D printing meat-free options
Whereas the trade is but to witness a growth in 3D printed meals, Revo Meals isn’t the one firm concentrating on this software. Redefine Meat has additionally commercialized 3D printed vegan meat.
The corporate launched its first product, Alt-Steak, again in 2020. Fabricated utilizing its meals 3D printers, this meat-free steak different is claimed to be 95% extra sustainable than its farmed counterparts. It options Redefine Meat’s proprietary set of plant-based substances: Alt-Muscle, Alt-Fats, and Alt-Blood.
The next 12 months, the agency launched a brand new vary of 3D printed meat to eating places and motels in Israel. These plant-based choices characteristic 3D-printed hamburgers, sausages, lamb kebabs, and floor beef. The vary acquired reward from main cooks, together with Marco Pierre White and Michelin-starred Ron Blaauw.
Elsewhere, SavorEat, an Israel-based 3D printed meat different producer, provides kosher gluten-free, vegan, and allergen-free pork patties. The product vary consists of vegan turkey hamburgers and meat-free beef burgers. In keeping with Racheli Vizman, the corporate’s CEO and co-founder, these 3D printed meals had been developed for SavorEat’s major market within the US.
This launch adopted the information in 2020 that the corporate had raised $13 million from an IPO on the Tel Aviv Inventory Alternate. At floatation, the corporate was valued at $51.2 million. Based mostly in Rehovot, SavorEat is reportedly pushed by the necessity to help sustainability targets by lowering emissions and chopping waste. “We purpose to offer larger selection and customization, to empower the planet to eat otherwise, with extra wholesome and sustainable choices to cut back ecological affect,” defined Vizman.
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Featured picture exhibits Revo Meals 3D printed salmon filet. Photograph through Revo Meals.