Nitto-Denko Corporation

Shinya Hashiguchi

Takahisa Konishi

Yuka Sekiguchi

Tomoaki Hishiki

Tomoko Sudo

Yusuke Kamano

The present invention provides a foam body suitable for producing a cultured meat having a good texture. The foam body of the present invention includes alginic acid and/or an alginate. The foam body has an elastic modulus M, as determined by a test, of 8&#xd7;10Pa or less. In the test, the foam body is immersed in 22&#xb1;3&#xb0; C. water for 4 hours to prepare a specimen having a post-immersion thickness of 5&#xb1;1 mm. Stress and strain caused in the specimen are measured by applying a load to the specimen for 5 seconds to compress the specimen in a thickness direction at 0.5 mm/sec. A stress caused in the specimen when the specimen is compressed by 10% of an initial thickness is determined, and a value obtained by dividing the stress by a corresponding strain is determined as the elastic modulus M.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Shinya Hashiguchi