For a long time, the food industry has been trying to find an effective, low-cost, and sustainable replacement for traditional animal fat. This is because animal fat is the most crucial ingredient that defines how the meat looks, cooks, and tastes which cannot be replicated by plant oils currently used in meat alternatives.
In this reference, London-based Hoxton Farms, a startup that cultivates animal fat, has raised £2.7M (approx €3M) in its Seed round of funding, to provide the ingredient that has been missing to make alternatives of meat. The startup, however, is currently in the research and development stage.