Your Free Clean Education

Do you want to expand your understanding of our new clean world to a much higher level? The Good Food Institute is running a free 6 week online course exploring the science behind plant-based and clean meat! The syllabus for the course is as follows:

Week 1: History of alternative sources of meat and the economic impact of plant-based and clean meat globally; land use, nutritional profiles, and employment effects

Week 2: Understanding the structure of meat and its physiological role in diet: the biochemical structure of meat; its digestion; and nutritional considerations of common meat replacements

Week 3: Plant-based meat: protein sourcing, isolation & functionalization, formulation, and processing. Extrusion, the Couette cell, flavoring, binders, algal and mycoproteins.

Week 4: Clean meat: what is it? Cell lines, cell culture media, bioreactors, and scaffolding.

Week 5: Current industry players, financial analysis and bottlenecks, and white space innovation ideas

Week 6: Sociological, ecological, and ethical considerations in the adoption of clean and plant-based meat. Understanding the policy and industry landscape for clean meat and plant-based products.

You can sign up to the course right here.