Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Lab-Grown Meat

Soon, Americans are going to be able to try chicken that comes directly from chicken cells rather than, well, a chicken. Last week, the USDA gave Upside Foods and Good Meat the green light to start producing and selling their lab-grown, or cultivated, chicken products in the U.S. It’s going to be a while before you can buy cell-based meat in stores, though you should be able to get a taste at a restaurant sooner. CNN lists everything you need to know about lab-grown meat – including what it’s made of: Lab-grown meat — or cultivated or cell-based meat — is meat that is developed from animal cells and grown, with the help of nutrients like amino acids, in massive bioreactors.