New Delhi : At the fourth edition of World Food India, the spotlight largely fell on the sprawling stalls of giants like Hindustan Unilever and Nestlé, distributing samples of their latest products . Yet tucked away in Hall 14 of Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam , a modest booth drew curiosity for a different reason. Its product is being used in what many call the next frontier in food technology: lab-grown meat.

And it is one of the Indian government’s newest priorities — to look for alternative protein sources at a time when vegetarianism is finding a new and unapologetic resurgence.

“We had a client in Goa who wanted us to make cultivated crab meat, because that is what the demand is in the region,” said Siddharth Manvati, co- founder of Clear Meat, which manufactures

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