Abstract:Future food has gained extensive attention from the public and food researchers with the pursuit of health, environmental protection and delicious food. With the rapid development of biological science and food technology, more and more foods will be biosynthesized in the future, which will become the guide and drive for the development of high-tech food in a long period. At present, advanced synthetic biology and food science and technology have made a series of breakthroughs in the customized food production such as artificial meat, becoming an effective supplement and alternative to the existing traditional agriculture and food industry. In this review, we analyze the key tasks and major challenges for the biomanufacture of typical future foods such as food-plant based meat and cell-cultured meat, and introduce the application of synthetic biology, tissue engineering, fermentation engineering in the future food industry. Furthermore, we also summarize the potential challenges in future food industry such as the multidisciplinary integration of food in biological manufacturing.
