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Lab-grown dairy: The Next Food Frontier

Over recent years and post success of impossible meat, efforts have gathered around producing #lab-grown #milk & milk products and players like #BioMilq, #Remilk and #Perfectday have made significant progress in creating something nearer to milk. While this is a good step in scientific progress and sustainability, unlike meat, there are few areas which may create hurdles in popularising lab-grown milk: #Economics, #Naturalness and #Nutrition.

The costing of milk derived through lab-grown process at this point seems to be quite high and researchers working on the same need to arrive at scale on which, lab-grown milk would be able to compete with natural milk from costing perspective. When compared to feeding systems in countries like India where agricultural wastes like stems & shoots are fed to the cows to convert into value-added product like milk, the incremental cost of feed is very insignificant. Same also applies to few low-cost producing countries like New Zealand where rain-fed grass is used for grazing.

Milk is considered complete food because of it having all the necessary nutrients required for growth & maintenance including macro-nutrients like Fats, proteins, carbohydrates and micro-nutrients like vitamins and minerals. Its very difficult to match the exact nutritional profile of milk with lab-grown milk. However, players like Biomilq have done much better job in this regard.

Most important aspect is natural origin of milk against synthetic tag that a lab-grown milk would get and its acceptance with the consumers. This seems trickier at the moment and would require much higher efforts in marketing & advertising to seduce the consumers.

While these are early days for lab-grown milk, lets watch closely, how developments take place.

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