Making a sausage from cells cultured outside the animal is challenging enough - imagine how difficult it is to create a whole-muscle steak, co-founder and CEO of Aleph Farms Didier Toubia said this week.

Can you call something created from cells steak?

I read that Aleph Farms is an Israeli start-up producing cell-grown meat that resembles regular meat and this week it announced it has created the first cell-grown minute ‘steak’.

ADVERTISEMENT

The company said the ‘steak’ demonstrates its capabilities for growing different types of natural beef cells isolated from the cow into a fully 3D structure similar to conventional meat.

It claims that it obtains the true texture and structure of beef muscle tissue steak, but also the flavour and shape, establishing a new benchmark in cell-cultured meat technology.

“At Aleph Farms, this is not science fiction. We've transformed the vision into reality by growing a steak under controlled conditions," the CEO said.

I don't know how I would feel about seeing lab-grown steak on a menu or on a shop shelf.

What do the ingredients say? Where are the cells from?

I'll be sticking to my sirloins and rib-eyes for a long time yet.