In the Netherlands, Meatable has hosted the European Union’s first cultivated meat tasting. Michelin-starred chef Ron Blaauw; Constantijn van Oranje, Prince of the Netherlands and Special Envoy, Techleap; and entrepreneur Ira van Eelen, whose father Willem van Eelen is considered the founder of cultivated meat, all participated in tasting Meatable’s cultivated pork sausage.
“At Meatable, we have been working tirelessly over the last five years to develop a delicious product that looks like, tastes like and has the same texture and flavor profile as farm raised meat,” Krijn de Nood, founder and CEO of Meatable, said in a press statement. “We now have the opportunity to verify those findings and further optimize our product before mass market entry.”
Using its proprietary Opti-OX™ technology, Meatable takes one cell from a pig and turns it into a cultivated sausage in only four days—sixty times faster than the time it takes to rear a pig for pork on a traditional farm. By reducing cell differentiation time, the company can produce high-quality cultivated meat at a significantly reduced cost. The company plans to launch its first products in Singapore later this year.