{"id":110090,"date":"2020-07-17T09:42:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/printer-lickin-good-kfc-is-bioprinting-chicken-nuggets"},"modified":"2020-07-17T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:42:24","slug":"printer-lickin-good-kfc-is-bioprinting-chicken-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/printer-lickin-good-kfc-is-bioprinting-chicken-nuggets","title":{"rendered":"Printer lickin\u2018 good: KFC is bioprinting chicken nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/printer-lickin-good-kfc-is-bioprinting-chicken-nuggets3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe partners are working together to develop the world\u2019s first laboratory-produced chicken nuggets. The 3D printed nuggets are expected to be similar in taste and appearance to KFC\u2019s original product, but will have the benefit of being more environmentally friendly to produce.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When I think of KFC and its largely unchanging menu of fried chicken, I do not immediately think of innovation. However a new collaboration forged between the fast-food company and Russia-based bioprinting firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dprintingbusiness.directory\/company\/3d-bioprinting-solutions\/\">3D Bioprinting Solutions<\/a> might just change my mind. The partners are working together to develop the world\u2019s first laboratory-produced chicken nuggets. The 3D printed nuggets are expected to be similar in taste and appearance to KFC\u2019s original product, but will have the benefit of being more environmentally friendly to produce.<\/p>\n<p>The bioprinted chicken nugget project is already underway, and the unlikely partners plan to have a final product ready for testing by this fall. The effort is part of KFC\u2019s mission to create a \u201crestaurant of the future\u201d which leverages state-of-the-art technologies like 3D bioprinting to overcome solutions in the food industry today: such as finding more eco-friendly alternatives to traditional meat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt KFC, we are closely monitoring all of the latest trends and innovations and doing our best to keep up with the times by introducing advanced technologies to our restaurant networks,\u201d said Raisa Polyakova, General Manager of KFC Russia &amp; CIS. \u201cCrafted meat products are the next step in the development of our \u201crestaurant of the future\u201d concept. Our experiment in testing 3D bioprinting technology to create chicken products can also help address several looming global problems. We are glad to contribute to its development and are working to make it available to thousands of people in Russia and, if possible, around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe partners are working together to develop the world\u2019s first laboratory-produced chicken nuggets. The 3D printed nuggets are expected to be similar in taste and appearance to KFC\u2019s original product, but will have the benefit of being more environmentally friendly to produce.\u201d When I think of KFC and its largely unchanging menu of fried chicken, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1503,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-bioprinting","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}