Demolish Foods unveiled its Gen3 platform for the production of slaughter-free meats at the Future Food-Tech Conference in San Francisco. Enabled by a suite of cutting-edge technologies, the versatile platform is capable of scalably producing whole cuts of meat, including chicken breasts, fish filets, beef steaks and pork chops. Further, the platform is flexible and has been used to produce a range of plant-based meats as well as cultivated meat hybrids made using a combination of plant-based materials and cultivated animal cells.
The platform replicates the chewiness, sustained juiciness and changing mouthfeel of slaughtered meat as it is successively chewed and broken down. To do this, it replicates the hierarchical structure of meat, starting from its smallest perceivable structure - the muscle fiber - which is thinner than a strand of human hair.