Cultivated meat is gaining momentum as a sustainable animal protein, but scalability and affordability are key challenges to advancing the sector. Optimized Foods, a start-up co-founded by Dr. Minami Ogawa, uses a microcarrier system based on mycelium — the root structures of mushrooms — to improve novel products, such as cultivated meat, beauty, and gut health solutions.Nutrition Insight meets with Ogawa, who is also a scientific adviser at the company, to discuss her journey and vision for sustainable food innovation.
