Health: Japanese scientists work up an appetite for lab-grown Wagyu beef – Gulf Digital News

  • Date: 10-Oct-2021
  • Source: Gulf Daily News
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Health: Japanese scientists work up an appetite for lab-grown Wagyu beef – Gulf Digital News

TOKYO: Japan's famed Wagyu beef, a delicacy that can cost more than $200 a pound at some top restaurants, could become much more affordable in the form of a lab-grown replica.

Japanese scientists say they have succeeded in recreating Wagyu, renowned for its fat marbling, in a laboratory to produce something that could eventually look and taste like the real steak.

Wagyu beef comes from a breed of black cattle, most famously cultivated in the Kobe area of Western Japan.