Panorama and ambiguities of cultured meat: an integrative approach

• Published in: Critical reviews in food science and nutrition Vol. 62; no. 20; pp. 5413 - 5423
• Main Authors: Fernandes, Alice Munz, Teixeira, Odilene de Souza, Revillion, Jean Philippe, Souza, Ângela Rozane Leal de
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Taylor & Francis 08.07.2022; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Biotechnology; cell-based meat; clean meat; Commercialization; Cultured meat; Food; in vitro meat; Literature reviews; Meat; Nomenclatures; Biotechnology; clean meat; cell-based meat; in vitro meat
• ISSN: 1040-8398; 1549-7852
• DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2021.1885006

The purpose of this research was to identify, through a systematic review of the literature, the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities of the production and commercialization of cultured meat, as well as to analyze the challenges to be faced by this new food biotechnology. For this, we analyzed 194 manuscripts published in the Scopus and Web of Science databases that dealt with cultured meat under the perspective of cellular agriculture, employing several nomenclatures. The results indicate that there is still no consensus in the literature about the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities of cultured meat, which constitutes an emerging, multifaceted, and encouraging field of study, and a series of inferences have been made that provide insights into the knowledge analyzed. Finally, we propose an analytical model that combines sub-scenarios from which it becomes possible to understand and anticipate the direction of this new food biotechnology.