The Documentary Podcast
The Documentary Podcast
BBC World Service
Japan’s next meal?
23 minutes Posted Nov 4, 2026 at 1:30 am.
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What will the food of the future taste like? In Japan, we discover a fungus turning waste into a high-protein alternative to meat. Then we visit a bedroom where amateur scientists are growing chicken cells. And a restaurant with its very own cultured-meat laboratory upstairs. Could these ideas eventually change the way Japan - and the world - eats food?