If the image itself isn't unappetizing enough, the description might put you off. South Korean researchers have carried out a hybrid rice variant, infused with cow muscle and fat cells, creating a bright pink grain made from part plant and part meat. The team hopes to ultimately create a cheaper and more sustainable source of protein, with a much lower carbon footprint than actual beef. But please: change the color.
Meat cells develop both on the surface of the rice grain and inside the grain itself. After ten days, you obtain the finished product. The study, published in Matter, suggests that rice grains taste like beef sushi, which is made from cow and rice. So yes, it follows.
—Mat Smith
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Functionality meets fashion.
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But not Starfield or Indiana Jones.
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It is still being tested before being offered to the public.
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