Techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life-cycle assessment (LCA) are how the cultivated-meat field measures whether a process can be affordable and environmentally competitive at scale, and both rest on reusable inventory data: growth-medium compositions, energy and material flows, titers, and yields. This page collects the downloadable cultivated-meat life-cycle inventories that AI-assisted cost and environmental models can train and validate against. The tools that build these models live in Software.md / Techno-Economic & Life-Cycle Assessment, and the background inventory databases they draw on are in Databases.md / Life-Cycle Inventory & Sustainability Databases.
Cultivated-meat life-cycle inventories
The two artifacts below are the primary-data life-cycle inventories behind the most-cited cultivated-meat LCAs. Each pairs medium and process inventory with the peer-reviewed study it accompanies, so a model built on one can be traced back to its assumptions.
Primary inventory data collected from more than 15 companies and research institutes spanning cultivated-meat production and its supply chain (5 of them cultivated-meat producers), the most-cited primary cultivated-meat life-cycle inventory and a reusable backbone for environmental modeling of cultured meat. It is built on ecoinvent 3.7.1 and Agri-Footprint 5.0 and distributed as open (CC-BY) electronic supplementary material (correction at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-023-02183-9). Companion to Papers.md ref #299 (Sinke et al. 2023); the background inventory databases it draws on are in Databases.md / Life-Cycle Inventory & Sustainability Databases.
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The Supporting Information carries the Essential-8 and Beefy-9 growth-medium compositions, microbial yields, and titer data underpinning the media-component inventory, a reusable media-impact analysis artifact. It is built on ecoinvent v3.8 and openLCA (preprint at https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.21.537778). Companion to Papers.md ref #301 (Risner et al. 2025); the background inventory databases it draws on are in Databases.md / Life-Cycle Inventory & Sustainability Databases.
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