Nutritious, delicious, and sustainable. This is the type of plant food that ENEA is creating with the goal of providing better and more sustainable food while mitigating the impact of climate change on soil, health, plant quality and productivity, and thus food security. This is so-called "cellular agriculture," which entails the production, beginning with agronomically significant plants, of foods containing a vast array of health-promoting molecules while preventing soil erosion and biodiversity loss. According to the World Economic Forum, in the face of a 50% rise in global food consumption by 2050, climate change might cut agricultural yields by up to 30%, necessitating the development of alternative production techniques. Plant cells grown in controlled environments can represent an innovative and high-quality food biomass, based on production models that allow us to overcome the problems associated with the collapse of crop productivity while also limiting the exploitation of natural resources such as land and water, reducing production waste, and the use of plant protection products, in accordance with the European Green Deal recommendations for 2030. By exploiting the vast natural biochemical composition of plant cells, these foods are manufactured using a well-established method that has enabled the extraction of pharmaceutical ingredients. Essentially, starting with a plant explant of interest and leveraging the features of plant cells, multiplication occurs in a liquid culture that can take place in bioreactors similar to those already used for yeast in the production of bread and beer. Eaten "fresh" and not necessarily processed, the novel food could also be beneficial in space, responding to the requirement to make future crews self-sufficient from Earth supplies and assist them deal with extra-terrestrial circumstances through soilless growth methods. There is evidence that these foods can develop nutritional, sensory, and digestibility characteristics that are comparable or superior to those of the plants from which they originate.
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