Cultured meat has potential to diversify methods for protein production,
but innovations in production efficiency will be required to make
cultured meat a feasible protein alternative. Microcarriers provide a
strategy to culture sufficient volumes of adherent cells in a bioreactor
that are required for meat products. However, cell culture on inedible
microcarriers involves extra downstream processing to dissociate cells
prior to consumption. Here, we present edible microcarriers that can
support …