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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