Edible Microcarriers for Cultivated Meat Produced from Organic Waste Material

畜牧业是全球变暖的主要原因，并耗尽了水和土地资源。存在对肉类生产的替代方法的需求，例如涉及培养动物细胞以生产肉类产品的培养肉类。栽培肉的目标是在外观、质地和味道上与传统肉类没有什么区别。种植养殖肉类需要细胞可以在其上生长的材料。目前，适合这样做的材料很少，大多数不适合食用，而且是用不环保的方法生产的。养殖业要发展成为主流产品的生产商，需要丰富、负担得起、食品安全的新的、改变游戏规则的材料。纤维素是一种广泛存在于自然界的材料，是一种不溶性的膳食纤维，有助于推动食物通过消化系统。曾经纤维素的来源是细菌。细菌纤维素的生长需要液体饲料，而液体饲料在规模化使用时成本高昂。或者，也可以使用从酿造工业产生的有机废物中提取的液体饲料来生产细菌纤维素。我们打算使用这种废弃材料生产的细菌纤维素来创造可用于生产栽培肉类的创新材料。这将提供一种可持续的材料制造方法，帮助养殖肉类行业“走向绿色”，增加该行业已经实现的二氧化碳净零排放目标的有利影响。该项目将利用露娜现有的专业知识来生产新材料。这将使露娜能够确定是否可以从细菌衍生的纤维素中生产所需的材料，这是以前从未报道过的。对材料的表征和制造成本的估算将使露娜能够确定这是否是一个可行的商业机会，并创建有用的数据，用于与潜在客户和/或业务合作伙伴展开有意义的对话。

Livestock farming is a major contributor to global warming and depletes water and land resources. There is demand for alternative approaches to meat production, such as cultivated meat that involves culturing animal cells to produce meat-like products. The goal of cultivated meat is for it to be indistinguishable from conventional meat in terms of appearance, texture and taste. Growing cultivated meat requires materials that cells can grow on. Currently there are very few materials suitable for doing this and most are not suitable for eating and are produced using environmentally unfriendly methods. For the cultivated meat industry to develop into a producer of mainstream products requires new, game-changing materials that are abundant, affordable, and food-safe.Cellulose is a material widely found in nature and is an insoluble dietary fibre, helping to push food through the digestive system. Once source of cellulose is from bacteria. Growth of bacterial cellulose requires liquid feed that is costly when used at scale. Alternatively, it is possible to produce bacterial cellulose using liquid feed derived from organic waste material produced by the brewing industry. We intend to use this bacterial cellulose produced using this waste material to create innovative materials that can be used in production of cultivated meat. This will provide a sustainable approach to material manufacturing that will help the cultured meat industry 'go green', adding to the beneficial impact that this sector is already delivering towards net zero CO2 emission targets. The project will utilise existing expertise at Luna for the production of novel materials. It will enable Luna to establish whether it is feasible to produce the required materials from bacterial-derived cellulose, something that has not previously been reported. Characterisation of the materials and estimates of manufacturing costs will enable Luna to establish whether this is a viable business opportunity and create useful data that will be used to start meaningful dialogue with potential customers and/or business partners.