UPSIDE Foods announced a new range of consumer products made from animal cells. Pending regulatory review, these ground meat products will add to the company’s current offerings, which include chicken sausages, chicken sandwiches and dumplings. In addition, UPSIDE announced that it has developed a chicken cell line for use in suspension cell culture that could reduce the cost of production for these ground meat products. The company will initially be launching at a small scale with its chicken filet.
UPSIDE has also developed a chicken cell line that does not require platelet-derived growth factors (PDGF), ingredients used to support cell growth.