Redefine Meat unveils plant-based products using 3D printing

Israeli start-up Redefine Meat has launched its Alt-Steak plant-based product using its patent-pending 3D meat printing technology.

Claimed to be the world’s first, the company has initiated market testing for its Alt-Steak plant-based product at selected high-end chefs ahead of full market availability next year.

Redefine Meat co-founder and CEO Eshchar Ben-Shitrit said: “Since day one of the company, we have been working on creating a tasty and affordable plant-based alternative to steaks, one of the most cherished food products and the driver of the entire meat industry.

“To enable mass adoption, we knew that creating an alternative meat product that was both high in quality and nutritional composition would require new technologies and production processes never seen before in the food industry.

“Today’s announcement marks the start of a new era in alternative meat – the Alt-Steak era – driven by production processes that will accelerate the development of a wide range of alt-meat whole muscle products and create a sustainable alternative to raising and eating animals.”

The company added that its Alt-Steak products offer a texture, flavour and appearance that is similar to beef steak.

For creating Alt-Steak products, the company is said to have worked with food technologists, chefs and butchers.

It also collaborated with Swiss flavours manufacturer Givaudan to digitally map more than 70 sensorial parameters such as beef cuts texture, juiciness, fat distribution and mouthfeel into its products.

Additionally, Redefine Meat’s proprietary 3D food printers created the Alt-Steak products using its alt-muscle, alt-fat, and alt-blood plant-based formulations.

Ben-Shitrit added: “The importance of using precision 3D printing technology to achieve texture, colour and flavour – and the combinations between them – can not be overstated.

“By using separate formulations for muscle, fat and blood, we can focus on each individual aspect of creating the perfect Alt-Steak product. This is unique to our 3D printing technology and lets us achieve unprecedented control of what happens inside the matrix of alt-meat.”