Austrian food-tech start-up Revo Foods is launching a 3D-printed vegan salmon fillet in Rewe stores, claimed to be the world’s first 3D-printed food product to hit supermarket shelves.

The salmon-inspired product marks a milestone for both 3D-printed food and vegan seafood. Its main ingredient is Promyc, a mycoprotein ingredient developed by Swedish start-up Mycorena, using filamentous fungi.

Promyc was engineered by Mycorena’s food scientists to specially suit the application for 3D-printing purposes, a first-of-its-kind application for mycoprotein.

The development was supported by €1.5 million of European funding through the Eurostars 3 programme, with co-funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme.

Promyc contributes most of the protein to the Revo fillet including all essential amino acids, healthy fibres composed of beta-glucans as well as B vitamins and important minerals such as Zinc and Calcium. It also has a Nutriscore rating of ‘A’, due to high protein and Omega 3 content.

According to Revo Foods, Promyc’s mouthfeel and taste profile allow it to authentically imitate the experience of a piece of salmon thanks to the fibres naturally formed by Mycorena’s fungi mycelium, offering a “structure unlike anything other seen in the market today”.

Paulo Teixeira, chief innovation officer at Mycorena, said: “The collaboration between Revo and Mycorena allowed the adaptation of the Promyc production process to achieve required characteristics fitting Revo’s 3D-MassFormer technology, as well as any other 3D printing application”.

“With this, Mycorena’s mycoprotein products are fully fitted to an emerging manufacturing technology that we believe will play a key role in the future of food.”

Revo Foods’ new extrusion technology is designed to enable seamless integration of fats into a fibrous protein matrix, leading to a new generation of seafood alternatives with the typical ‘flakiness’ and juicy fibres of fish fillets.

Utilising its patent-pending 3D-MassFormer technology, Revo Foods claims to have created the first-ever continuous production process capable of mass-producing 3D-printed food.

“With the milestone of industrial-scale 3D food printing, we are entering a creative food revolution, an era where food is being crafted exactly according to the customer needs,” said Robin Simsa, CEO of Revo Foods.

“We are not just creating a vegan alternative; we are shaping the future of food itself.”

The official launch into the European retailer Rewe will take place tomorrow (14 September 2023). Customers across Europe can also order the product at Revo Foods’ online shop from 1 October.

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