Cell-based caviar: the mass-market health food star of the future? A British company is developing the world’s first lab-grown ‘compassionate’ caviar to allow more people to experience the delicacy’s unique taste and nutritional benefits.
Caviar is renowned as an exclusive luxury typically only enjoyed by champagne-swilling elites in five-star suites or on-board first-class flights or cruises. But it s also one of the easiest foods to grow in a lab. So says Kenneth Benning, the refined CEO of Exmoor Caviar – famous as the UK s first sturgeon caviar farm. It has been operating in the picturesque English countryside in Devon since 2012 and now supplies its products into leading hotels and over 80 Michelin-starred restaurants.
Caviar wars as top brands accused of implying they are Russian when they are made in China
Producers are calling for a crackdown so the tin is clearly marked with species and country of origin
There is a dispute about how caviar tins are named
Britain’s top caviar suppliers are calling for a crackdown on labelling to stop suppliers duping customers into thinking they are buying genuine Russian or Iranian Beluga.
A brand sold in Harvey Nicholls has been accused by UK-based caviar supplier Caspian Monarque, which sells Iranian beluga, of trying to portray that its own-brand tins are filled with sturgeon eggs from Russia.