Every pet owner knows the trade-off: cats crave meat-like taste and texture, but conventional meat raises concerns about health, sustainability, and animal welfare. Omni Pet’s patent proposes a third path: using cultivated meat for essential animal-derived nutrients while building most of the “chunk and gravy” experience from plant proteins. If it works at scale, it could open a genuinely new category in pet nutrition.
What the Patent Reveals
Omni Pet describes a wet pet-food composition that looks and eats like classic “chunks in gravy,” yet contains no traditional farmed animal products apart from the cultivated meat component (EP4616721A1). The core idea is two-phase: a solid phase of proteinaceous chunks and a sauce phase that carries cultivated meat.
The chunks are formed from vegetable proteins—primarily soya or pea—combined with flours/starches such as wheat flour, pea starch, potato starch, or corn starch. Heating and shaping create a chewy, fibrous bite that mimics meat. The sauce phase, which is liquid or gelatinous at room temperature, is interspersed around the chunks and includes cultivated meat (e.g., cultivated chicken), potentially emulsified or high-shear-mixed for even distribution.
Why it matters: cats are obligate carnivores that require specific nutrients (for example, pre-formed vitamin A, arachidonic acid, and ample taurine). By placing cultivated meat in the sauce—and optionally fortifying with vitamins and amino acids—the formula aims to deliver those essentials while keeping most of the protein load plant-based. Concrete details help visualize this: chewy soy-wheat “meat-like” cubes (not mush) surrounded by a gravy carrying cultivated cells; optional palatants like yeast extract for aroma; and moisture targets typical of wet foods.
The Applicant
Omni Pet focuses on pet-food formats that preserve the sensory cues pets and owners expect while addressing sustainability and health. This filing fits a strategy to bridge plant-forward formulations with cultivated meat, yielding a product that remains familiar (chunks + gravy) but updates the inputs for welfare and nutrition.
The Inventors
Congratulations to the founder/inventors — Guy Sandelowsky and Shiv Sivakumar — for their contribution to the field.
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