Two brave volunteers watched their lab-grown hamburger meat being prepared on Monday during a live tasting event in London.
What did the testers have to say about the burger? The meat is apparently not a good as the real deal.
Austrian nutritionist Hanni Ruetzler and U.S. journalist Josh Schonwald told reporters the is was "close to meat," but not as "juicy."
"It had the texture of meat but was short of flavor because of the lack of fat," the testers claimed, the Associated Press reports.
Professor Mark Post, whose team at Maastricht University in the Netherlands developed the burger, created the hamburger meat out of cells harvested from a cow. The scientists reportedly turned the cells into strips of muscle and combined them to create the burger patties.
Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, funded the 250,000-euro ($330,000) project, the Associated Press reports.
According to BBC News, the creation of the test-tube burger may be the answer to "a growing demand for meat."
However, those against the process believe the answer to the growing demand in meat is eating less of it.
"We are doing that because livestock production is not good for the environment, it is not going to meet demand for the world and it is not good for animals," Post told BBC.
Professor Tara Garnett, head of the Food Policy Research Network at Oxford University, told BBC decision-makers don't need to look into technological solutions.
"We have a situation where 1.4 billion people in the world are overweight and obese, and at the same time one billion people worldwide go to bed hungry,"Garnett said. "That's just weird and unacceptable. The solutions don't just lie with producing more food but changing the systems of supply and access and affordability so not just more food but better food gets to the people who need it."
