--- title: Meati Crispy Cutlet/Chicken Cutlet: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 description: Find out why Meati Crispy Cutlet/Chicken Cutlet is one of the best inventions of 2022 canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6228181/meati-crispy-cutlet-chicken-cutlet/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-11-10T11:16:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:09:15.646Z og:title: Meati Crispy Cutlet/Chicken Cutlet: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 og:description: Find out why Meati Crispy Cutlet/Chicken Cutlet made this year's list og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6228181/meati-crispy-cutlet-chicken-cutlet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76fdedb0ca0083a2/698a374186f68e094e6f1cfa/best-inventions-2022-meati-chicken-classic-cutlet.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Meati Crispy Cutlet/Chicken Cutlet: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meati Crispy Cutlet/Chicken Cutlet: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022 twitter:description: Find out why Meati Crispy Cutlet/Chicken Cutlet made this year's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76fdedb0ca0083a2/698a374186f68e094e6f1cfa/best-inventions-2022-meati-chicken-classic-cutlet.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 10, 2022 # Mushroom Magic Meati Crispy Cutlet/Chicken Cutlet by Jeremy Gantz  Fungi-based meat alternatives have been gaining popularity—and a lot of venture capital. Meati’s [crispy cutlet](https://meati.com/shop/crispy-cutlet) and [classic cutlet](https://meati.com/shop/classic-cutlet), which debuted in March, are 95% mycelium (mushroom root). Both cutlets, one breaded and one not, look and taste remarkably like actual chicken because they’re whole cuts of the naturally fibrous root, which Meati gently texturizes. “We want to maintain the nutritional integrity of the mushroom root in the final product,” says co-founder and CEO Tyler Huggins, who studied fungi as a field biologist with the U.S. Forest Service. **Buy Now:** [Meati Crispy Cutlet/Classic Cutlet](https://meati.com/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6228181/meati-crispy-cutlet-chicken-cutlet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6228181/meati-crispy-cutlet-chicken-cutlet/"},"headline":"Mushroom Magic","datePublished":"2022-11-10T11:16:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:09:15.646Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6228181/meati-crispy-cutlet-chicken-cutlet/","keywords":["list","franchise","ecommerce","best inventions","Best Inventions 2022"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76fdedb0ca0083a2/698a374186f68e094e6f1cfa/best-inventions-2022-meati-chicken-classic-cutlet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt76fdedb0ca0083a2/698a374186f68e094e6f1cfa/best-inventions-2022-meati-chicken-classic-cutlet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2022/6228181/meati-crispy-cutlet-chicken-cutlet/","name":"Mushroom Magic"}}]}] ```