A new innovative, revolutionary product developed by a startup Spanish, Mimic Seafood, wants to be a vegan alternative to traditional tuna. But the one that is used raw for dishes like sushi. tunato it is a food 100% vegetable that mimics said fish in texture, appearance and even flavor. With how difficult this last aspect can be, you can already taste it in the Ametller Origen Commons Restaurant. Later it will also be available in the restaurant chains that serve the Japanese star dish and other similar preparations. Find out how this is here 'false tuna' Spanish.
The reason and origin of Tunato
Pedro Alvarez Bretons is the founder and the CEO of Mimic Seafood, a company that works especially in devising alternative products to both meat and fish. Thus the birth of tunato is due to the precise idea that the ocean is not an inexhaustible source of food like the tuna. It was necessary to invent a new product to help reduce the consumption of a overexploited and endangered species. That is why he has created this food, which is also a food option for those people who, for reasons environmental and / or ethicalHe prefers not to eat tuna, but he prefers to enjoy its flavor.
Even the diners -pregnant women, especially- that they are forced to withdraw this fish from their diet by the methylmercury that it contains and that can be harmful, can take advantage of tunato. Because it is intended to serve a variety of dishes (sushi, tartare, poke, ceviche…) like a vegetable option that comes directly from the field. A variety of tomato call fingerino and developed by a Catalan company, it will be grown in the orchard of Almeria to provide the main raw material for the new product. For his texture and shape, this food has been chosen, as well as because it is easier to imitate the characteristics of the tuna.
tunato It can be used in the kitchen with the formats already mentioned but it is only possible to taste it in the World Trade Center of Barcelona, specifically in the Ametller Origen Commons Restaurant. It will soon expand to other places that offer sushi and soon too, the startup Spanish hopes to develop new products like this one. Always with vegetable raw materials to try to imitate the smoked salmonIn the eelIn the anchovy and even at octopus. Will they get it? We will be waiting from here.
