But to reach its ultimate destination - supermarket shelves - cultivated meat faces big obstacles, five executives told Reuters.
California-based cultivated meat company GOOD Meat already has an application pending with the FDA, which has not been previously reported.
Regulatory approval is just the first hurdle for making cultivated meat accessible to a broad swath of consumers, executives at UPSIDE, Mosa Meat, Believer Meats, and GOOD Meat told Reuters.
But it will take hundreds of millions of dollars for GOOD Meat, for example, to build bioreactors of the size needed to make its meat at scale, Tetrick said.
But cultivated meat companies have the advantage that they can claim their product is real meat, Tetrick said.