It has to rank as one of the most expensive meals ever made, but would you eat a €288k burger, from a test tube?

Dutch scientists will today serve up the world’s first test tube burger. The five-ounce patty, which will be unveiled at a secret location in London today, was made entirely with 20,000 tiny strips of beef grown from a dead cow's stem cells and cost €288,000 to produce.

Researchers have been conducting experiments in this area over the past number of years, beginning with mouse meat and progressing to pork and beef.

Professor Mark Post, who produced the burger, believes the foodtstuff could herald a food revolution, and that artificial meat products could appear on supermarket shelves in the next decade.

He said: "What we are going to attempt is important because I hope it will show cultured beef has the answers to major problems that the world faces. Our burger is made from muscle cells taken from a cow. We haven't altered them in any way. For it to succeed it has to look, feel and hopefully taste like the real thing."

Sky News report on the Test Tube Burger