Here at 3D Rapid Print, one of the fastest growing 3D Printing companies in the Thames Valley, we like to keep abreast of the latest innovations in 3D printing.
On July 31st 2022, online newspaper The Times of Israel spoke of food technology company SavorEat of Rehovot, Israel launching a new range of 3D printed food products, including kosher, vegan, gluten-free and allergen-free pork burgers and vegan turkey burgers. These would join its vegan beef burgers, which are already sold in Israeli chain restaurant BBB and would soon be sold in the US. (SavorEats’s collaboration with BBB was unveiled back in late December 2021.) The new products were developed specifically for the US market, with SavorEat intending to collaborate with food services and facilities management company Sodexo of Paris, France to being them there. They are also expected to be offered to Israeli diners as part of the collaboration with BBB.
SavorEat’s products combine 3D printing, plant-based ingredients and a plant-based cellulose fibre that works as a binder, creating a meat-like texture. The fibre was developed by Professors Oded Shoseyov and Ido Braslavsky at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who joined entrepreneur Racheli Vizman to establish SavorEat in 2018. Together, they also developed a 3D printing robot chef that can make custom-made burgers with varying levels of protein, fat, cellulose, water, flavours and colourings. These can be cooked or grilled, making the same sizzling sounds and emitting the same odours that meat would. In addition, the robot chef stands as big as a washing machine, or the height of 2 large microwaves and the length of 1.
However, SavorEat is far from the only Rehevot-based food technology company developing plant-based protein products; other examples include Plantish and Redefine Meat. Plantish makes 3D printed vegan salmon fillets and announced that it had raised circa $12.5 million in seed funding in March 2022, claiming that this was the largest ever seed round in the alternative seafood market. Redefine Meat develops 3D printed animal-free lamb and beef cuts, burgers, sausages, lamb kebabs and ground beef. In October 2022, it announced that it was collaborating with meat importer and producer Giraudi Meats of Monaco to accelerate adoption of its products across Europe.
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