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Podcast – 3D Printed Plant Based Food From Deep Space To A Wholefoods Near You


By 2050 there will be 10,000,000,000 people on the planet.  By 2030 (our decade forward period) we will certainly be well over 8,000,000,000. The planet is not getting physically larger.  As we become increasingly more densely centered on the coasts and in big cities producing food for us all, so we flourish is a major challenge to governments, communities, and industry.  This is one of the huge untalked about challenges or opportunities that face every one of us.

The idea of 3D food printing might sound super abstract, but it absolutely isn’t. Our guest today, Giuseppe Scionti is leading the application of 3D printing technologies towards food.

Not just for a replacement to make the sustainability a reality but to produce abundant choices for us all. Imagine walking into a Wholefoods and asking the butcher to print a smoky Wagu steak with a flavor of shrimp or orange. OK, the orange might sound odd, but that is part of what abundant choice is all about.  Imagine sending astronauts on a trip to Mars and colonizing it. 3D printed food is an inevitability there.  It is also an inevitable part of the disease prevention process and management of recovery for people in medical care. Or a way to handle feeding and nourishing a man-made or natural disaster. It has so many applications that we just did not have enough time to talk about them with our guest Giuseppe Scionti the CEO of Novameat on this edition of Forbes Insights Futures in Focus.

Listen as he talks about the science, the engineering, the near infinite range of applications and most importantly the flavors (excluding orange flavored steak).  As you expect with an entrepreneur on the very edges of the forefront of food thinking, design and action he is incredibly passionate about pushing the ideas and practices around food for everyone so that we have abundant choices in a food world very different from the one we have today.  If you remember Brad Barbera’s interview with us, Director of Innovation, Good Food Institute, this concept takes that conversation into hyperdrive.

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