We at Meati are committed to providing food that makes people feel good about the choices
they are making for their families and their futures. To accomplish that goal, we spent years
exploring promising sources of remarkable nourishment and working with top chefs to craft a
tasty, wildly nutritious protein that we believe will help you build healthy diets that account
for people's busy schedules, demands for deliciousness, and concerns about sustainability.
Amid the many alternative meats flooding supermarket shelves, Meati stands out for being a
whole-cut option made of 95% mushroom root (also known as mycelium) that can take a
starring role in the center of the plate. Our food's one-of-a-kind nutritional profile may make
it tempting to call it a "super-protein." It doesn't just provide significant protein and other
benefits of animal-based options, it also delivers the fiber, vitamins, you normally find in
plants. And it does all this with no cholesterol or sugar. As an example, our Classic Cutlet
provides 17 grams of complete protein and 8 grams of fiber. It is also a good source of iron,
zinc, B vitamins, and other essential nutrients.
We believe that nutritional profile and other aspects of Meati make it an island of good energy
in the ocean of 40,000 to 50,000 products filling supermarkets today¹. Its taste and texture
will leave meat eaters and vegetarians alike hungry for more. It can rest safely in freezers for
a year, and can be cooked in all kinds of ways in minutes, and easily absorb people's favorite
flavors. And as people become increasingly concerned³ with the connections between food
systems and the environment — and the dependence of individual health on the broader
health of our societies and planet — Meati provides peace of mind in spades. Our mushroom
root's simple, low-resource growth process makes it a far more viable way to get essential,
protein-rich nutrition to billions of people. The production method is highly scalable, and when
our first state-of-the-art production facility starts going online later this year, we'll begin to
hit the efficiencies that unlock the vast distribution and affordable prices that ensure
accessibility.
This guide is a peek into Meati, and I hope it makes it easy for you to consider our food as
another tool you can use to help people build healthy diets. Thank you for learning more about
our mission to provide nutritious, delicious, sustainable, and affordable food to everyone
around the globe, forever. If you're eager to dive even deeper into the details, you'll be happy
to hear that we're putting together a team of academic advisors to research and report on
every aspect of our mushroom root's incredible nutrition profile. In the meantime, if you have
hearing from you and learning more about how we can work together to make the world
healthier in every way.
Best,
Tyler Huggins
CEO and Co-founder, Meati Foods
1 Ruhlman, Michael. Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America. ABRAMS Press, 2017.
2 Purdue. New report provides insight on consumer food spending, satisfaction, sustainability. 15 February 2022. Available at:
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2022/Q1/new-report-provides-insight-on-consumer-food-spending,-satisfaction,-sustainability.html
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