ALAMEDA, Calif. (KCBS RADIO) – It looks like chicken, cooks like chicken and — you guessed it — tastes like chicken.
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But, there are no birds involved in the cultivation of this meat created by GOOD Meat Poultry Products in Alameda County.
The FDA recently signed off on the product's safety. The company has a few more regulatory hoops to jump through, but if all goes well, the chicken may soon be coming to a grocery store near you.
On its website, GOOD Meat advertises its products as "real meat made without tearing down a forest or taking a life. Meat without slaughter."
"I'm happy to say that our cultivated chicken product tastes like chicken," said Vitor Santo, Senior Director of Cellular Meat at GOOD Meat.
Cultivated chicken is made from chicken cells, but instead of growing them from an egg into a bird and then slaughtering it, these cells grow in a fat, immersed in a nutritional liquid. Then it's processed to give it texture, like real chicken parts — thighs or nuggets or breasts.
"We can generate now pretty much all types of chicken meat because we’re able to make this sort of fibrous texture that you experience when you eat a whole piece of muscle," Santo explained.
Restaurants in Singapore are already serving GOOD Chicken. In Berkeley, food technology company Upside Foods also has a cultivated chicken product ready for USDA inspection.
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