The 187,000-square-foot plant, based in Glenview, Illinois, will start by producing ground cultivated chicken products, with plans to expand to other species and whole-textured formats in the future.
 

UPSIDE will make its market debut with a whole-textured chicken product that is over 99% cultivated chicken cells.

With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granting approval to a cell-based – or cultivated – meat product, new foods are expected to hit store shelves soon.

 The 200,000-square-foot facility will have the capacity to produce 10,000 metric tons of cultivated meat. 

LISTEN: From the Cold Corner examines where the industry stands today and what’s on the horizon for this emerging technology.

Mission Barns, a producer of cultivated fat, completed the first-ever scaled-up manufacturing run of a product containing cultivated meat with its Mission Chorizo Sausage. This Chorizo is a blend of Mission Fat and plant-protein that together deliver all the succulence, sizzle and satisfaction you’d expect from a sausage but without the downsides common to conventional animal protein.

Memphis Meats, a leading company in cell-cultured meat, poultry and seafood has changed its name to UPSIDE Foods. This signifies the company is now ready for business with its first consumer product: chicken.