{"id":5715,"date":"2023-11-09T08:41:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T08:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationisrael.org.il\/en\/?post_type=article&p=5715"},"modified":"2023-11-29T07:33:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T07:33:54","slug":"taking-a-bite-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/innovationisrael.org.il\/en\/article\/taking-a-bite-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Bite of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Is there a way to feed nine billion people on this planet without destroying it? To adequately test foods for bacteria? To obtain meat without killing cattle? Or to make a vegan yogurt that tastes good? Food Tech is a hot industry, and\u00a0The Kitchen\u00a0is a Food Tech incubator that successfully confronts some of the industry\u2019s most cutting-edge challenges.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n On the wall of The Kitchen, their mission is proclaimed, loud and definite: Better industry. Better food. Better world.<\/strong> That sums up the vision behind not just The Kitchen, but the Food Tech field as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The incubator was launched in Ashdod in 2015 as a joint venture of the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) and Strauss Group. Since then it has interviewed no fewer than 350 hopeful companies in this new sector. Among the projects it selected for development and advancement at the incubator are a natural yogurt without a drop of milk, a microchip that identifies bacteria in food, a rich protein made from the larvae of flies, and a smart robot that quickly learns production-line tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n