Is artificial meat really not in line with the Chinese diet?

Artificial meat really does fit the Chinese diet. There are currently two technology paths for artificial meat, "plant meat" and "cell meat". The former is a synthetic product of soy protein, similar to traditional vegetarian meat; the latter is a cell extracted from an animal, and cultivated in the laboratory to make it grow. From the taste, more than 30 old Shanghainese people participated in the taste of precious meat "artificial meat fresh meat moon cake", nearly 80% of people said they did not taste any difference. "

But don't look at the various merchants yelling very lively, the people of China will pay for artificial meat? China's dietary civilization has a long and colorful history, we have an enigmatic preference for dietary habits, for example, fish must eat live fish, chilled frozen dietary products have never been able to batch on the Chinese people's tables. And for artificial meat, meat can't even eat real or fake. Artificial meat can overcome this market difficulties?

Optimistic industry sources believe that in the long run, after solving the problem of food, consumers are more concerned about eating healthier. Artificial meat contains higher protein, lower fat, is a good source of protein food. With people's attention to nutrition and health, vegetarian plant meat has a certain market base and consumer groups.

But most experts say that it is still difficult to replace meat with artificial meat on a large scale. Reporter interviews found that at present, artificial meat is more like a business gimmick. Liu Rui, an associate researcher at the Institute of Food and Nutrition Development of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, said that the production technology is more demanding to develop plant-based meat with sensations similar to real meat products. For clean meat cultured with animal cells or tissues, simulating the physiological environment in vivo, in aseptic, moderate and rich nutritional conditions, so that isolated cells or tissues to survive, grow and maintain the structure, there are no mature products on the market, whether consumers are able to accept the still unknown, the market outlook is also unknown.