{"id":210258,"date":"2025-04-01T06:27:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T11:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/faux-gras-scientists-craft-more-ethical-version-of-french-delicacy"},"modified":"2025-04-01T06:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T11:27:42","slug":"faux-gras-scientists-craft-more-ethical-version-of-french-delicacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/faux-gras-scientists-craft-more-ethical-version-of-french-delicacy","title":{"rendered":"Faux gras? Scientists craft \u2018more ethical\u2019 version of French delicacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/faux-gras-scientists-craft-more-ethical-version-of-french-delicacy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foie gras\u2014the fattened liver of ducks or geese\u2014is a French delicacy prized for its rich, buttery flavor. But its production, which involves force-feeding the animals, has led to bans in several countries.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of scientists says they\u2019ve developed a more ethical alternative: one that mimics the taste and texture of the dish, minus the controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The results were published Tuesday in the journal Physics of Fluids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foie gras\u2014the fattened liver of ducks or geese\u2014is a French delicacy prized for its rich, buttery flavor. But its production, which involves force-feeding the animals, has led to bans in several countries. Now, a team of scientists says they\u2019ve developed a more ethical alternative: one that mimics the taste and texture of the dish, minus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210258","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}