{"id":1465118,"date":"2024-01-26T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenqueen.com.hk\/?p=70528"},"modified":"2024-01-26T01:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T01:20:00","slug":"steakholder-foods-israeli-startup-expands-seafood-range-with-3d-printed-shrimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/01\/26\/steakholder-foods-israeli-startup-expands-seafood-range-with-3d-printed-shrimp\/","title":{"rendered":"Steakholder Foods: Israeli Startup Expands Seafood Range with 3D-Printed Shrimp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Israeli startup Steakholder Foods has added a 3D-printed shrimp prototype to an expanding roster of alternative seafood products. The company plans to also introduce a hybrid version if costs allow.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A month after unveiling<\/a> the world’s first 3D-printed eel alternative, Steakholder Foods has gained another ‘first’ with its new shrimp analogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new innovation was created using precision printing on the company’s proprietary DropJet printed, which is designed specifically for fish and seafood analogues. It uses a shrimp-flavoured ink designed by its food tech team, and will hope to accelerate Steakholder Foods’ route to market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pondering hybrid seafood<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Courtesy: Steakholder Foods\/Canva<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Steakholder Foods, formerly known as MeaTech, plans to roll out its seafood portfolio \u2013 which currently comprises a cultivated grouper fish fillet<\/a> (in collaboration with Umami Meats), and the 3D-printed eel and shrimp \u2013 to future customers in two potential forms. The first would be a standard 3D-printed analogue, while it’s considering making hybrid seafood (a combination of plant-based and cultivated<\/a> ingredients) as well, if it’s able to scale in a cost-effective manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy unveiling a second new species of plant-based, 3D-printed seafood this month, we expect to position Steakholder Foods to sell and deliver its first DropJet printer in 2024, offering partners and customers a unique opportunity to benefit from the expanding global seafood market, while making the right kind of impact on the environment,” said CEO Arik Kaufman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking after the unveiling of the company’s eel analogue, Kaufman hailed its 3D-printing tech and potential as a hybrid seafood<\/a> product: \u201cSuch versatility could significantly boost profitability for food companies and lead the way to a shift towards more efficient and sustainable practices in the industry. This product exemplifies the broader possibilities our technology offers our partners.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s an approach vaunted by other entrepreneurs in the alt-seafood space too. Varun Gadodia, co-founder of India’s SeaSpire, told Green Queen<\/a> in September: “We believe the category will be unleashed by the rise of biotech-driven solutions \u2013 [like] cell-based and synthetic biology \u2013 and aim to develop enabling technologies or solutions for\u00a0hybrid seafood<\/a>\u00a0alternatives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steakholder Foods, which has previously also unveiled a hybrid 3D-printed\/cultivated steak<\/a>, expanded its business model last year to serve as a B2B supplier of 3D bioprinters and bio-inks for alternative protein manufacturers. Its tech can create structured end products \u2013\u00a0whether that’s plant-based, cultivated or hybrid \u2013\u00a0to create realistic meat alternatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The importance of shrimp alternatives<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Courtesy: Steakholder Foods<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The company’s decision to expand its seafood lineup with shrimp makes sense when you consider that shellfish represents a $68B market. And just last year, 7.6 million tons of shrimp were harvested globally. But shrimp farming is associated with a host of different issues. Crustaceans like shrimp account for 22%<\/a> of the total carbon emissions from fishing, despite making up just 6% of all the tonnage landed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, a WWF report<\/a> from last year revealed that illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing of shrimp and prawns amounted to potential economic losses of about $47M each year between 2015 and 2021. In fact, 26.4% of all shrimp fishing activities were potentially illegal and unregulated between 2016 and 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The seafood species faces climate threats as well. Scientists have warned<\/a> that pink shrimp could lose 70% of their habitats in the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the century. Shrimp has also suffered from population declines, with with spawning population only an eighth<\/a> of what it was in 1908. And there has been a collapse in Atlantic shrimp numbers<\/a> too, thanks to climate-change-induced ocean warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steakholder Foods says its heavy-duty printing solution can help meet growing demands through high-volume, efficient and sustainable production, offering a scalable, eco-friendly alternative to traditional shrimp farming. The aforementioned SeaSpire is working on a shrimp prototype as well. Meanwhile, other players in this space<\/a> include Vegan Zeastar (Netherlands), Thai Union (Thailand), HAPPIEE! (Singapore) , Lily’s Vegan Pantry, Plant-Based Seafood Co. (both US) and Boldly (Australia).<\/p>\n

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<\/span> 3<\/span> Mins Read<\/span><\/span> Israeli startup Steakholder Foods has added a 3D-printed shrimp prototype to an expanding roster of alternative seafood products. The company plans to also introduce a hybrid version if costs allow. A month after unveiling the world\u2019s first 3D-printed eel alternative, Steakholder Foods has gained another \u2018first\u2019 with its new shrimp analogue. The new innovation was [\u2026]<\/p>\n

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