IKEA thinks we'll be eating 3D printed meatballs in the "not so distant future." Space10, IKEA's green-living design lab, is looking for "Tomorrow's Meatball," a healthy and sustainable meatball that'll satiate our "unsustainable appetite for meat."
We have an increasing demand for food, Space10 says. That demand is creating serious problems for our planet—it's impacting global warming, wasting water, destroying forests, and causing soil erosion. The United Nations states that our food demand will increase by 70% within the next 35 years—and so, we "need to be smarter and more efficient about the way we produce our food."
This means being open to eating stuff we haven't considered before—like artificial meat grown in a lab, algae, bugs, and 3D printed meatballs.
“We used the meatball's shape and size as a canvas for future foods scenarios, because we wanted to visualize complicated research in a simple, fun and familiar way. There’s hardly any culture that does not cook meatballs—from the Swedish meatball, to Italian/American spaghetti meatballs to spiced up Middle Eastern kofta,” says Kaave Pour from Space10, one of the project's founders.
3D printed meatballs are made from proteins from alage, beet leaves, or insects.
This isn't the first time we've seen 3D printed food. IGN staff ate 3D printed pizza at CES 2015, and we reported that German candy company Katjes is 3D printing gummy candy in some of their cafes.
What do you think? Would you eat a 3D printed meatball made from insect protein? Check out Space10's website to see more of their innovative meatballs.
Nicole is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @sweetpotatoes.
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