For the cultivated meat industry… or the cultured meat industry… or the cell-cultured seafood industry… the official, standardized nomenclature identifying the entire category for consumers has yet to be determined.
This still-in-progress consensus on a name shows just how young the cultivated meat (a term we’ll use in this story unless otherwise noted) sector is in 2022. In fact, the four companies we interviewed here—BlueNalu, Forsea, SuperMeat and UPSIDE Foods—all have their own current preferences for product description: