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These "meatballs" from the Ikea test kitchen in Copenhagen are actually made from bugs.
- Ikea's Space10 lab has been working to reinvent the retailer's classic meatball in a sustainable way.
- It's testing food items with ingredients like bugs, lab-grown meat, and crops grown in water instead of soil.
- The goal is to create dishes that "are good for people and planet."
Ikea is known across the globe for its furniture offerings, but many may not know that every location also has its own full-service restaurant. And among the dishes served there, the Swedish meatball is probably the most famous.
Space10, Ikea's external future-living lab in Copenhagen, Denmark, has been reinventing Ikea's iconic meatball. The company already took a huge step towards creating sustainable fast food when it made the meatballs vegan in 2015, and it's continuing to experiment with new ideas.
With a focus on imaginative and sustainable food production, Space10 has been trying ingredients like insects, algae, and lab-grown meat.
Though the company told Business Insider that there are no current plans to put the new dishes on Ikea's menu, the ideas is to "come up with dishes that look good, taste good - and are good for people and planet."
See some of their bug-filled twists on fast food:
