Das israelische Unternehmen SavorEat bringt maßgeschneiderte, pflanzliche 3D-gedruckte Burger auf den Markt

By Steven Scheer

HERZLIYA, Israel, Dec 28 (Reuters) – Israeli food technology firm SavorEat launched a customized plant-based burger system for each customer on Tuesday, one of the first companies to use 3D printing technology to cook food.

Typically, vegan burgers from firms such as Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat (NASDAQ:BYND) are frozen and then cooked on a grill.

SavorEat’s, however, are made on-site using a self-contained 3D printer with three cartridges containing oils and other ingredients. Customers can choose the amount of fat and protein they want in each burger, which takes about six minutes to cook.

„It’s a mix of meat-alternative innovation and digital manufacturing where we can also cook the product,“ Racheli Vizman, CEO of SavorEat, told Reuters. She also indicated that its burgers are made with a combination of potato and protein from chickpeas and peas.

Demand for meat alternatives from health-conscious and environmentally conscious consumers has skyrocketed in recent years, while alternative protein startups raised more than $3 billion in 2020.

Another Israeli company, Redefine Meat, began marketing whole meat-free cuts in European restaurants last month.

SavorEat, funded mostly by Israeli institutions and whose Tel Aviv-listed shares rose 11% on Tuesday, said its products will initially be served in a local burger chain.

The company is also collaborating with food services firm Yarzin Sela, which supplies Israeli high-tech companies, and has forged a deal with Sodexo to serve its vegan burgers at U.S. universities.

(Edited in Spanish by Carlos Serrano)