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That's not salmon. That's paste printed to look like it.
Steakholder Foods launched Perfecta on September 3 in some Northeast grocery stores through KeHE Distributors. The line includes marbled steak, filet mignon, chicken breast, salmon patties and whitefish patties, all built layer by layer by a printer.
The "salmon" patty has no fish in it at all. It's soy protein, rice flour, potato starch, and methylcellulose to hold it together. One 50 gram patty has 4 grams of protein.
A real Atlantic salmon fillet has about 20 grams of protein per 100 grams and one ingredient you can recognize. No paste. No binder you have to google.
Their machines are called Fused Paste Layering and Drop Location in Space. They can push out hundreds of kilos an hour. That's not a fisherman. That's a factory.
I want food my family can recognize and actually eat. That's why 70 percent of us look for recognizable ingredients and 85 percent say whole-food protein is healthier and more satisfying. If you want to spot it, look for Perfecta in the plant-based case. If it says salmon patties but the ingredient list says soy and methylcellulose, that's the printed one.
Call it what it is. Don't print a fish you never caught.
Steakholder Foods launched Perfecta on September 3 in some Northeast grocery stores through KeHE Distributors. The line includes marbled steak, filet mignon, chicken breast, salmon patties and whitefish patties, all built layer by layer by a printer.
The "salmon" patty has no fish in it at all. It's soy protein, rice flour, potato starch, and methylcellulose to hold it together. One 50 gram patty has 4 grams of protein.
A real Atlantic salmon fillet has about 20 grams of protein per 100 grams and one ingredient you can recognize. No paste. No binder you have to google.
Their machines are called Fused Paste Layering and Drop Location in Space. They can push out hundreds of kilos an hour. That's not a fisherman. That's a factory.
I want food my family can recognize and actually eat. That's why 70 percent of us look for recognizable ingredients and 85 percent say whole-food protein is healthier and more satisfying. If you want to spot it, look for Perfecta in the plant-based case. If it says salmon patties but the ingredient list says soy and methylcellulose, that's the printed one.
Call it what it is. Don't print a fish you never caught.


