Rice-Grown Meat Will Offer 'World of Possibilities' Published Feb 14, 2024 at 11:00 AM EST. By . Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in London, UK.

Yet in another sense, this rice was entirely different. Lab-grown meat aims to replicate conventional meat in every dimension, including taste, nutrition, and appearance. Beef rice doesn’t even try.

But of the 132 plant-based meat analogues analyzed, only 12% were found to be fortified with key micronutrients essential for health that are found in meat – including iron, vitamin B12 and zinc.

Hardcore meat-eaters who eat meat on a daily basis did not want the substitutes at all. Thus, say Dagevos and Verain, plant-based meat substitutes are not popular among mainstream flexitarians who ...

A new study from the George Institute for Global Health suggests that plant-based meat products might be higher in sugar and lack key nutrients compared to real meat. The research is published in ...