Hungary: Artificially fattened goose and duck liver can be placed on the tables from the lab

In addition to the increasingly popular meat-free dishes, a meat-free liver specialty, foie gras, may soon arrive. A French startup, Gourmey, wants to launch a food known in Hungarian as fatty liver in 2022. The basis of development is the egg. Duck egg stem cells are isolated and begin to divide into a nutrient solution and then turn into liver cells. It has come a long way to make the food as close as possible to the original in both taste and texture: the researchers tried 600 times to make the right version. The Hungarian Kitchen reported that this is an environmentally significant innovation. Thanks to the innovation, water consumption, carbon dioxide emissions are reduced, and the food does not contain palm oil, antibiotics and other additives. However, the introduction of the product is not easy: it can only be sold under a different name in Europe, as only the original liver specialty can be called foie gras. The name can only be used for traditionally stuffed liver. The ...