Here's what a menu of the future will look like: flavored eggs, lab-raised chicken, and sushi without fish or rice

What will we eat in the future?

A few decades ago the sci-fi response was imaginative, eye-catching and incredible, but pill food is not on the way to becoming a reality in the 21st century. Nobody pretends. In the era of haste, vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts or seeds will continue to be very present in our plate, as will meat, although increasingly compensated with proteins of vegetable origin. The break does not come from the hand of new foods, but from new combinations, balanced nutritional contributions and production. Technology is already introducing an "invisible innovation" into our diet with a triple objective: to make it healthier, more sustainable and more accessible.

"Tomorrow's diet will be more like grandmother's stew than very strange dishes."

So says Beatriz Jacoste, director of

Food Innovation Hub, an innovation hub dedicated to promoting solutions for the food ecosystem based in Valencia that is on the way to becoming the

benchmark

in Spanish.

They know what the signs of the future are and what the menu could look like so that we could consume naturally in 20 years, but we already have it available tomorrow in countries that are at the forefront such as the United States, Israel or Singapore.

This is the KM ZERO proposal.

BREAKFAST

To start with, a

capsule

, "which is a supplement that gives us energy and can completely replace coffee." "At KM ZERO we support a

called

, which markets this supplement and many others that can enhance our well-being throughout the day."

Then something that may seem as common as

.

But there is a catch.

"Cereals that come from ancestral varieties such as

, amaranth, which have been discontinued but are very beneficial for the health of soils. The recovery of these forgotten varieties should be encouraged."

These cereals, easy to find, the perfect thing would be if they were marketed in containers from the Israeli company

, with which this

also works

, and "which are compostable and disappear after months".

The milk of vegetables, fruits and legumes of NotCo.EM

The milk, which would provide us with proteins, will be the most special.

is very similar to beef but is made only with vegetables.

"Using an algorithm called Giuseppe, they have achieved a rare mixture of ingredients such as pineapple, chicory, chickpeas ... something that a human would never have thought of and that gives a flavor analogous to the traditional product," explains Jacoste.

It is the brainchild of

, a Chilean unicorn startup in which even

has invested

.

This milk is already sold in the United States at Starbucks, for example, but has not yet reached Europe.

To this we should add some seasonal fruit such as apple, grape or banana.

But we have an option B for breakfast, because food also takes into account the pleasures and the state of mind, the

, which in the 20th century was translated into "what the body asks of you."

"We can make ourselves some toasts with sourdough bread, naturally fermented, which is very beneficial for our microbiome, and we accompany it with one of the varieties of

cheese

, which is a vegetable cheese but which visually and organoleptically replicates the conventional cow cheese ", proposes Bea.

Vegetable cheeses from Väcka.EM

In addition, this cheese could be placed with a QR of a

startup

,

, which could expand information to the consumer about the origin of the ingredients, the nutritional information.

"And now the trend is to want to know everything about what we eat," adds

, KM ZERO community lead.

LUNCH

If we need a mid-morning snack, they suggest a yogurt, "but substituting a new ingredient for sugar called

, an African berry."

It is promoted by the Spanish company

and its peculiarity is that when eating it, for an hour the perception of the acid taste changes for the sweet in our mouth.

"That makes sugar expendable in our diet."

It is not yet commercialized, but it has applications for the medical field, for example, for people undergoing chemotherapy treatments, that everything tastes metallic to them.

MEAL

We arrived at lunchtime and would start with another capsule.

This time,

, which in addition to having a satiating effect has proteins that can enrich our diet.

To design our food, we could use an app called

that, using the ingredients you have in the fridge, recommends a recipe. "That would help us to end food waste," recalls Jacoste.

As there are days when you don't feel like cooking, they propose a

, food at home. This time sushi, but very special because it has no fish. It is made from vegetables. It is made by a Spanish company based in Madrid,

and will soon be for sale. "From the tomato they make the simulation of tuna and do not use rice, but a marine cereal called

and about which Ángel León, the chef of the sea, has spoken a lot. It allows to grow something very similar to rice on a new surface such as It could be the sea, "the experts say.

Getting the fish to taste without using it is tricky, but they do it with lab-grown fats.

"Its origin is 100% vegetable and can be enriched, for example, with Omega3. The company that makes it is also Spanish and is called

".

But it does not finish here.

The soy sauce that accompanies Mimic SeaFoods sushi comes in a capsule made from algae from a company called

that completely replaces plastic.

Mimic Seafod's sushi.EM

All this must be accompanied by the greatest superfood of life which is water.

In this case it would be

, another Spanish company, which makes canned water, the most recyclable container, "and enriches it with beneficial minerals and allocates 52% of its profits to cleaning the oceans.

If you don't feel like dessert, remember, we can order it at a

, "which are mini-supermarkets that take you home in 10 minutes and are proliferating in cities."

AFTERNOON SNACK

Snack time has come.

If we are going to go to the gym and we need something to give us strength, they suggest taking "a protein shake based

or a bar" from the

brand

.

On the other hand, if what you want is a whim, "a good Personal Foods chocolate called

."

"They are functional chocolates that with their

help what you are looking for. For example, with moringa they have one, Slim, which they claim is for weight loss, another to strengthen the immune system and another with pea and hemp proteins to maintain the level of energy ", they explain.

DINNER

At dinner we also came with two options.

If you decide to go out, and you are in Tel Aviv, the proposal is to go to the

restaurant

, "where they will give us a laboratory chicken burger and we will be able to see some bioreactors, which are the structures in which they manufacture this type of meat that we are going to try later ".

How is this meat created? The stem cell is extracted from the chicken, without sacrificing it, and the muscle tissue is grown in the bioreactor. Then this texture is shaped. "In this way, meat can be generated without the need to slaughter animals or large farms. It would be in a more controlled environment, it would not need antibiotics. That is why they call it clean meat. There are companies like Alef Farms that already produce it, but only in Israel and Singapore has its consumption been allowed.

If we opt for a homemade dinner, they suggest taking a

capsule

, which has those properties that induce rest, and cook something always and quickly, such as scrambled eggs.

In this case with eggs from

, another Spanish company that sells truffle, ham, cheese or garlic flavored eggs.

There is also the vegan option, "which is a type of egg that is composed exclusively of plant products and is offered by several companies, including the Israeli

" says the director of KM ZERO.

Truffle, garlic and ham flavored eggs from Koroko.EM

The scramble can be accompanied by a salad that comes from a

", which are vegetables that grow in urban centers, controlled "without the need for arable land, with less water and without fertilizers or pesticides."

"In Spain, with the orchard very close," points out Catalina Valencia, "this may sound strange to us, but there are parts of the world where these solutions are very applicable. For example, in northern Europe a lot is already being developed due to the lack of light. ".

"There are areas called

(food deserts) where there is no access to fresh food. For example, I visited a school in the Bronx, in New York, where only families only consumed

processed

and in the school itself some towers of hydroponic crops that allowed them to take home fresh vegetables ", says Beatriz Jacoste. We would buy the ingredients for this salad in the supermarket because there are large

or

companies

that already sell them.

To make the purchase we would use an app called

with dynamic prices, which

the consumer to buy what is going to expire before. "We changed the stickers that now exist for this digital tool that avoids food waste, which is a third of what is produced with what that entails," they recall.

At this dinner we could afford to have a beer that, in this case, they propose to be from

, a clothing company that has developed a food line that is sold in some American states.

This beer is made with a type of wheat called

whose peculiarity is that it is perennial and has very deep roots to better search for water.

"It is very efficient and allows the revitalization of desertified soils."

RICH AND AT A GOOD PRICE

These are examples of the signs of how the food of the future will be that this hub has selected for EL MUNDO, which has the advice of a network of more than 50 pioneers "who are researching and developing the diet of the next generations," he explains. the director. Their solutions will be

in ZM ZERO's

book

, to be published on December 14, and are shared at

, an annual international event to discuss trends, disruption and challenges in the food ecosystem.

How will the market accept these innovations?

The key is that they are "invisible".

In the words of the experts, "technology and innovation have to remain in the process so that the food is more sustainable and healthy, but the consumer does not even notice it".

There is still a road in three directions.

"Food is part of our tradition, our culture and our memories. Unless the analog is just as rich, easy to prepare and is at the same price, there will be no one to include it in their diet," warns Jacoste.

"If the challenge in the 60s was to democratize nutrition by producing in mass and lowering the cost. Now we have

of foods that are not healthy and produced in a way that is not very compatible with the environment. The objective is to reverse that with a lot of technology and development to scale a product at an industrial level without the consumer perceiving that it is not the traditional one, "he adds.

Overcoming reluctance is another challenge: "All food comes from the laboratory: a yogurt, a potato, any product on the market has been researched and developed in a laboratory," they state.

Welcome to the table of the future.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

• Science and Health

Health Private investment in R + D + I, below what is desirable

Boticaria García Eating healthy, cheap and sustainable is possible with this recipe book

Health The incidence rises more than six points in one day and reaches 88.65 cases

See links of interest

• Last News

• What

• 2022 business calendar

• Christmas Lottery 2021

• Search for Christmas lottery number

• Check Christmas Lottery

• Covid passport

• Holidays 2021

• Loteria del Niño 2022

• Empoli - Udinese

• Spain - Austria, live

• Cagliari - Torino

• Getafe - Athletic Club

• Everton - Arsenal