Bioengineers are using fat made from pig cells to make lab-grown meat taste more appealing

The cells developed at their facility were taken from a live pig because the smell and taste of fat can’t be replicated any other way.

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00:16 In usual plant-based formulations and products, you have a lot of palm oil and you have a lot of coconut oil,

00:22 and it just doesn't have that flavor, you know.

00:25 The thing I'm after as a chef is flavor, like number one.

00:28 And it's the thing that's missing from all of these products.

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01:11 What we need to understand here is that it's not necessarily better for the environment,

01:15 that it's not a given that cultivated meat is better for the environment.

01:19 It has to be designed into the production.

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