(CNN) -- The world's first stem cell burger was cooked and eaten in London today. The brainchild of Maastricht University's Mark Post, the burger was made of 20,000 small strands of meat grown from a cow's muscle cells and took three months to create. Breadcrumbs and some egg powder were added to the cultured beef to make it taste like a normal beef burger. To give it a beefy color, red beet juice and saffron were added. Chef Richard McGeown fried the stem cell burger with sunflower oil and butter and remarked that it looked slightly paler than a traditional burger.
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The first stem cell burger was cooked and eaten by two volunteer tasters in London
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The burger was made of 20,000 small strands of meat grown from a cow's muscle cells
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The five ounce cultured beef burger took three months and cost $330,000 to develop
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A volunteer taster said the burger was "close to meat but misses salt and pepper"
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