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| 09.11.2024 | Rethinking Early Childhood Education: A Call for Transformation | In the United States, early childhood education is often seen through a narrow lens. Daycares and child cares are viewed as mere custodial services. This perception is outdated and harmful. A new approach is needed, one that recognizes the ... |
| 08.11.2024 | South Africa’s Fast-Food Chains Expand Plant-Based Menus, Simply Asia Tops ProVeg’s Rankings | ProVeg South Africa has released the third annual edition of the Plant-Based-Friendly Fast-Food Franchise Ranking report, coinciding with World Vegan Month, to celebrate the rise of veganism in the country and globally.
The new analysis sho... |
| 02.11.2024 | Starbucks Ditches Non-Dairy Milk Surcharge: A Bold Move for Inclusivity and Sustainability | Starbucks is turning a new leaf. The coffee giant has announced it will eliminate the surcharge for non-dairy milk options in the United States and Canada, effective November 7. This decision coincides with the launch of its seasonal holida... |
| 31.10.2024 | At Long Last, Non-Dairy Milk is Free at Starbucks As New CEO Looks to Turn A New Leaf | 6 Mins Read Coinciding with the holiday season, Starbucks has permanently scrapped its surcharge for dairy-free milks like oat and almond in the US and Canada.
Starbucks has announced that it is removing the infamous non-dairy surcharge fro... |
| 23.10.2024 | Meatable CEO Jeff Tripician: ‘I’d Be Disappointed If We Don’t Have Approval in 5 Countries Next Year’ | 14 Mins Read Meatable’s Jeff Tripician on his journey from meat industry veteran to cultivated meat CEO, why these proteins should be more expensive, the company’s upcoming Series C round, and its global regulatory plans.
“It’s just a very ... |
| 05.10.2024 | The Future of Chocolate: Fava Beans vs. Cocoa in a Warming World | The chocolate industry is at a crossroads. Climate change is wreaking havoc on cocoa crops, pushing prices to record highs. As cocoa futures plummet, the search for alternatives intensifies. Enter Nukoko, a UK startup that is transforming f... |
| 04.10.2024 | Döhler Backs Fava Bean Chocolate Maker As Climate Change Eats Up Cocoa Crops | 4 Mins Read German food manufacturing specialist Döhler has invested in UK startup Nukoko to scale up its bean-to-bar cocoa-free chocolate, ahead of a market launch in 2025.
This month, cocoa futures in the UK dropped by 16%, marking a rare... |
| 02.09.2024 | Enjoy the Simple Delights of Butter, Dairy-Free | (Family Features) Chef Julia Child once said, “With enough butter, anything is good.” The rich flavor of butter has been a staple in cooking and baking for ages. Gracing home chefs with its deliciousness, the simple smell of butter ignites ... |
| 27.07.2024 | Angel Yeast: Pioneering the Future of Protein at Growth Asia 2024 | In the bustling heart of Singapore, a revolution in nutrition is brewing. Angel Yeast, a titan in yeast manufacturing, has taken center stage at the Growth Asia 2024 summit. This event, held from July 16 to 18, gathered over 300 industry le... |
| 26.07.2024 | Angel Yeast Showcases Innovative Yeast Protein Solutions at Growth Asia 2024 | SHANGHAI, July 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Angel Yeast (SH600298), a global leader in yeast manufacturing, recently introduced its yeast protein and innovative application solutions at the Growth Asia 2024 summit, which was co-hosted by leadin... |
| 25.07.2024 | Angel Yeast Showcases Innovative Yeast Protein Solutions at Growth Asia 2024 | SHANGHAI, July 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Angel Yeast (SH600298), a global leader in yeast manufacturing, recently introduced its yeast protein and innovative application solutions at the Growth Asia 2024 summit, which was co-hosted by leadin... |
| 12.07.2024 | Leftovers: Sour Patch Kids, Snapple join forces | Kind bites into ‘palette-provoking’ bars | Listen to the article 6 min
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| 05.06.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Non-Dairy Starbucks, Vegan Flights & A Bezos Protein Centre | 5 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Starbucks’ upcoming Oatly collaboration, a vegan certificatio... |
| 28.05.2024 | No Meat, No Plant: Protein Made by Finnish Startup is Literally Made from Thin Air | By John Lopez
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Finnish startup Solar Foods has introduced Solein, a revolutionary protein produced fro... |
| 21.05.2024 | Еда как софт | Еды на планете нужно больше. В белковой пище идёт борьба за коэффициент получения белка с единицы корма. Текущая оптимальная технология преобразования называется «курица», уже где-то близко — насекомые, а прямо за углом — вторая революция о... |
| 26.04.2024 | Edonia's Sustainable Meat Alternatives Revolution | Edonia, a plant-based foodtech startup, has secured a €2 million investment from Asterion Ventures to revolutionize the protein industry with sustainable meat alternatives. Using microalgae like spirulina and chlorella, Edonia's innovative ... |
| 24.04.2024 | Edonia grabs €2M to turn microalgae into less bitter-tasting ground meat alternative | As the world’s population continues to grow, the need to feed everyone is something a number of entities are working on. Paris-based Edonia, is one of the startups working on creating protein ingredients using microalgae.
Edonia joins compa... |
| 29.03.2024 | ‘Simply Absurd’: 95% of Starbucks Shareholders Vote Against PETA’s Call to Drop Non-Dairy Surcharge | 8 Mins Read During Starbucks’ annual shareholder meeting this month, 94.7% voted against PETA’s proposal to drop the extra charge for plant-based milk in the US, with the board of directors stating that prices are dictated by country-specif... |
| 16.02.2024 | Pacifico Biolabs emerges from stealth with fermentation process for alternative seafood | In the quest to replace traditional seafood with alternatives, Berlin-based Pacifico Biolabs believes it has a unique approach to making whole muscle structures using fermentation.
While fermentation, the process of growing cells in bioreac... |
| 08.02.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: ProducePay banks $38m, Heura ‘promises profitability,’ Deere & Corteva partner | Starship Technologies, maker of the six-wheeled delivery ‘bot famous across Europe, led foodtech funding deals this week with a healthy new round. Alt-meat maker Heura and grower-to-grocer platform ProducePay also announced notable new fund... |
| 01.02.2024 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: New capital for eco-chocolate, Leon co-founder launches fund, Delivery Hero & Deliveroo break up | Two fundraises this week highlight the growing interest in more eco-friendly, ethically produced chocolate, with US-based Voyage Foods and Germany’s Planet A both announcing new rounds. Elsewhere, Henry Dimbleby, best known as the co-founde... |
| 17.01.2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Ben & Berry’s, Better Butter & A Covid-19 Study | 6 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Ben & Jerry’s new oat milk ice-creams, Beyond Meat’s new ... |
| 09.01.2024 | 2024 Predictions: Investing in Food System Transformation is Here | Here, Elysabeth Alfano and Dr. Sasha Goodman of VegTech Invest give their predictions for 2024. “I do believe that plant-based and alternative proteins are in the right place at the right time! 2023 was such an odd year, but we are seeing t... |
| 04.12.2023 | Vital Meat: France’s First Cultivated Meat Startup Achieves Scaling Milestone in Chicken Cultivation | Vital Meat, describing itself as France’s first cultivated meat startup, has announced a strategic partnership with Biowest, one of Europe’s leading producers of cell culture media from animal sources, to scale the production of cultivated ... |
| 28.11.2023 | Blended & Hybrid Meat: What Do Sustainable Protein Policy Advocates Think? | 8 Mins Read As blended and hybrid meats begin to sizzle, Green Queen speaks to alternative protein bodies the Good Food Institute and ProVeg International to get their take on this novel approach to protein diversification.
This article is ... |
| 23.11.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Matsmart-Motatos grabs $43m to save food waste, RED Horticulture bags $18m, TômTex makes leather from fish | This week, Matsmart-Motatos scored new funding for its e-commerce business that sells overstock dry goods to stop food waste. RED Horticulture raised capital for its LED greenhouse lighting tech, and alternative leather startup TômTex bagge... |
| 16.11.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Delivery startup Crisp bags $38m, ‘mindful drinking app’ Sunnyside lands $11m, Bowery layoffs | Announcements from this week suggests foodtech funding rounds are slowly gaining speed again. Crisp bucked the downward trend of food delivery startups with a Series C raise, Sunnyside raised funds for its alcohol monitoring app, and Le Fou... |
| 09.11.2023 | Cultivated Pet Food Gains Steam as Czech Startup Says It Is Cleared For Sale After Listing On EU Feed Register | 8 Mins Read There have been a host of developments in the cultivated pet food sector of late, headlined by Czech startup Bene Meat Technologies officially listing its feed on the EU feed register, which it says clears it for sale.
Prague-ba... |
| 01.11.2023 | Future Food Quick Bites: Pasta Partnerships, Killer Commercials & Christmas Incoming | 7 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers an upcycled pasta partnership at Cambridge, the UK getting in... |
| 30.10.2023 | Nutri-Score and Eco-Labels: Is Carbon & Nutrition Labelling the Future of Food Packaging? | 7 Mins Read Consumers are more focused on personal and planetary health than ever before, governments are clamping down on greenwashing, and businesses are offering services to cut climate impacts and provide better labelling – are labels l... |
| 10.10.2023 | Meet the Startups Working with the Climate-Positive Alt-Protein Superfood That Grows Everywhere | 8 Mins Read In a world increasingly ravaged by the climate crisis and food insecurity, one crop could be a solution to meeting our future nutritional, environmental and health needs. Find out more about the startups growing duckweed, the fu... |
| 05.10.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Umiami raises $34.7m for plant-based whole cuts, Bonsai Robotics bags $13.5m, Blue Apron to sell for$103m | This week, French plant-based meat startup Umiami snagged €32.5m ($34.7m) to take its whole cuts platform to the US; Australian precision fermentation startup Eden Brew raised A$24.4m ($15.3m) to scale up animal-free casein production; and ... |
| 29.09.2023 | Meatable unveils cultivated meat products at press tasting event in Singapore | Dutch food tech company Meatable has introduced its cultivated meat products to the world at a press tasting event held in Singapore. This tasting event showcasedpork sausages, hot dogs, and pulled pork tacos and was the first of its kind t... |
| 14.09.2023 | Opinion: Plant-Based is Dead, Long Live Plant-Based! | 5 Mins Read In recent years, the plant-based industry has witnessed hyper-growth and a lot of hype, fueled by venture capital and a promise of sustainable alternatives to traditional animal-based products. However, as the dust settles on in... |
| 12.09.2023 | Bytes to Bites part one: Digitizing consumption insights. Leveraging AI in food product development | Editor’s Note: Eva Everloo is senior investment analyst, and Dr. Orly Savion is CTO and principal at agri-food tech investor PeakBridge.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the authors’ own and do not necessarily reflect those ... |
| 07.09.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Toray’s $8bn foray into biomass tech, Paptic lands $25m, Israeli agrifoodtech heats up The Kitchen | This week, materials manufacturer Toray announced a mega-investment in cellulosic sugar and Finland’s Paptic secured funds to expand its sustainable materials portfolio. Meanwhile, Israeli agrifoodtech startups were all over the news this w... |
| 31.08.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Toyota does indoor farming, Bayer & Pairwise ink deal, cultivated seafood gets big in Japan | Carmaker Toyota recently took a left turn into growing strawberries and cherry tomatoes at one of its production plants. Also in Japan, one of the country’s largest seafood companies has teamed up with a cultivated seafood startup. Meanwhil... |
| 30.08.2023 | UK Must Invest £390M in Alt-Protein by 2030 to Boost Food Security & Stay Competitive | 6 Mins Read To avoid ceding competitive advantage in the global alt-protein race, a new report suggests the UK needs to invest £390M ($493M) in alternative proteins between 2025 and 2030. This includes plant-based, cultivated and precision-... |
| 28.08.2023 | What’s Going On With Oatly? Unraveling Recent Developments and Controversies | 10 Mins Read As a company, Oatly isn’t a stranger to controversy. It’s had its fair share of ups and downs – and each of these has been well-documented. However, in the last year or so, there has been a steady drip of downs rather than ups,... |
| 16.08.2023 | New Carbon Credit Standards Guide Companies on Good Offsetting Projects | 4 Mins Read A global initiative to boost the $2B carbon offsetting market has released guidance to help companies choose better carbon credits and introduce more transparency to the unregulated sector. With carbon offsetting demands growing... |
| 11.08.2023 | Ulrick & Short Launches “Conceptually New to Market” Ingredient Based on Upcycled Seeds | UK-based ingredient specialist Ulrick & Short has developed a plant-based ingredient based on upcycled rapeseeds (from the Brassica family, also used to make canola oil).
Ulrick & Short specializes in clean-label, plant-based and na... |
| 02.08.2023 | Would You Pay For Meat & Dairy’s True Cost? German Supermarket Tests Climate-Inclusive Pricing | 5 Mins Read In a weeklong trial, German discount retailer Penny has increased the prices of nine products – mostly dairy and meat – to reflect their true cost on the climate (including soil and water use) and human health. Implemented acros... |
| 31.07.2023 | From prediction to production: A timeline of cultivated meat | Cultivated meat started as something out of a sci-fi blockbuster. Now, it’s a reality being served up in select restaurants, with the potential to hit grocery shelves one day.
The idea of producing meat in a lab was first discussed in the 1... |
| 26.07.2023 | ‘Striking’ that Europe’s first cultivated meat application is in Switzerland, not Brussels, says GFI as Aleph Farms submits dossier to Swiss regulator | Israeli startup Aleph Farms has applied to Swiss food safety regulators for approval to sell its cultivated beef steaks in its first European market: Switzerland, a country outside the European Union (EU).
A spokesperson told AgFunderNews t... |
| 25.07.2023 | Brevel sprouts $18.5M to develop microalgae-based alternative proteins | Microalgae is everywhere, it seems. It’s being used as a way to replace fossil fuels and is used in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals and as a food source. It’s a substantial market, too, expected to be valued at $25.4 billion by 2033.
Brevel, ... |
| 10.06.2023 | This week in foodtech: Cultivated meat is still a sizzling topic | If you’re adventurous with your food, or just like to keep up with the fast-moving foodtech industry, here’s a roundup of this week’s stories and some notable news we weren’t able to cover. Bring home the bacon
Some big news came from acros... |
| 06.06.2023 | Upstream Foods Says Cultivated Fat Will Help Plant-Based Seafood Market Surge | 3 Mins Read When it comes to seafood alternatives, the choices are limited. Dutch start-up Upstream Foods aims to change that by cultivating fat from salmon cells for the plant-based seafood market.
The alternative seafood sector has seen s... |
| 31.05.2023 | Фудтех в формате 3D: от стейка до ресторана | В 2022 году индустрия 3D-печати отметила свое первое десятилетие, как инструмент аддитивного производства. Отрасль развивается и проникает во все сферы жизни человека: медицина, космос, фармацевтика, электроника, машиностроение, а также фуд... |
| 31.05.2023 | Фудтех в формате 3D: от стейка до ресторана | В 2022 году индустрия 3D-печати отметила свое первое десятилетие, как инструмент аддитивного производства. Отрасль развивается и проникает во все сферы жизни человека: медицина, космос, фармацевтика, электроника, машиностроение, а также фуд... |
| 06.05.2023 | Good bot, bad bot: Using AI and ML to solve data quality problems | Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More
More than 40% of all website traffic in 2021 wasn’t even human.
This might sound alarming, but it’... |
| 27.04.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Restaurant order app me&u bagged $30m, Remilk approved for Israeli markets, biomaterials bonanza | This week, me&u officially announced a Series C close and alt-dairy startup Remilk got approved in Israel to enter commercial markets with its products. Several biomaterials startups made headlines with fundraises, partnerships and othe... |
| 21.04.2023 | Why General Mills is embarking on a farmer-driven regenerative agriculture strategy | While the term “regenerative agriculture” has become a central tenet of Big Food’s goal to lower its carbon footprint, to some critics, it lacks a universal definition that has opened it up to skepticism.
But General Mills says its use of t... |
| 08.03.2023 | New Technologies Make Factory Farming More Palatable. That’s Not Good Enough. | We will do anything to help animals – except cut back on eating them. Which begs the question: How ... [+] much time and money will humans spend to reduce their guilt without changing their behavior?getty |
| 06.03.2023 | Chromologics raises additional funding, bringing the series seed to a total of EUR 12.6 M, and welcomes two new investors Doehler Ventures and Thia Ventures. | Chromologics raises additional funding, bringing the series seed to a total of EUR 12.6 M, and welcomes two new investors Doehler Ventures and Thia Ventures.
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| 16.02.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: GrainChain raises $29m, Brigad bags $30m, AeroFarms & iFarm head to MENA | This week, US-based GrainChain announced a $29 million raise for its ag supply chain platform, and hospitality tech startup Brigad landed $30 million. More vertical farming startups are headed to the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, ... |
| 03.02.2023 | Behind the 'world’s first 100% cultivated pork steak' | The world's first lab-grown burger was cooked and eaten at a London news conference back in 2013. That milestone was pioneered by scientists from the Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
The cell-based meat (also known as cultivated, c... |
| 30.01.2023 | Who is Unilever’s new CEO and is split and spin back on the table? | Unilever has announced the appointment of a new chief executive: Hein Schumacher.
Schumacher will replace outgoing CEO Alan Jope, who announced his intention to retire from Unilever in September last year. He will join the ice cream-to-con... |
| 30.01.2023 | Unilever taps Royal FrieslandCampina head as new CEO | Dive Brief:
Unilever has named Hein Schumacher as its next CEO. Schumacher is currently CEO at European dairy giant Royal FrieslandCampina. He takes over for Alan Jope on July 1.
Schumacher has been with Royal FrieslandCampina since he was ... |
| 25.01.2023 | Lifeway CEO provides '2.0' update, talks moving into dairy alternative space | After launching the plan in 2018, Lifeway has more recently been able to “start really monetizing this awareness that [it] created,” Smolyansky said. Looking at the company’s most recent financials, Lifeway saw a 29.1% increase in net sa... |
| 24.01.2023 | Coffee and Chocolate Drive Deforestation and Human Rights Violations. Can the Industries Change? | 8 Mins Read The world loves coffee and chocolate. But both are linked to two big problems: deforestation and ongoing human rights violations. What will it take for the industries to change their ways for good?
Both coffee and chocolate are ... |
| 18.01.2023 | Top 10 alternative protein startups brought in $1.3bn in 2022 vs $2.3bn in 2021 | It’s been a tough few months for alternative protein startups, particularly those developing plant-based meat, dairy, and seafood alternatives (as opposed to those in the cellular agriculture space).
Sure, it’s been tough for startups acros... |
| 16.01.2023 | ‘World’s first’ growth media factory in the works for cultivated meat, milk | Multus Biotechnology Ltd has closed a funding round worth £7.9m (€8.91m) led by Mandi Ventures alongside participating investors such as SOSV, Big Idea Ventures, SynBioVen, and Asahi Kasei.
In addition, the UK-based start-up has received an... |
| 12.01.2023 | From cloud to bottle: Richard’s Rainwater turns to raindrops for a sustainable beverage | For most people, a rainy day means the inconvenience of carrying around an umbrella or the cancelation of an outside event. But for Richard's Rainwater, the first U.S. company to bottle rain, the liquid is anything but a hassle as a wet day... |
| 17.12.2022 | A food fight is raging over what we can and can't call 'meat' | Startups that make plant-based foods are battling the meat lobby for the right to describe their products as bacon, burgers or steak.
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| 17.12.2022 | A food fight is raging over what we can and can't call 'meat' | Three wiener dogs dressed up as hot dogs stood outside the UK Parliament.
That could be the start of a bad joke, but to the man who took the dachshunds there, it was utterly serious.
Morten Toft Bech, the founder of a startup that makes pla... |
| 06.12.2022 | Doehler invests in lab-grown palm oil alternative | The most consumed vegetable oil in the world is also a leading driver of deforestation. As a result, palm oil production is also a known contributor to biodiversity loss and climate change. And yet, industry has largely been unwilling to tu... |
| 30.11.2022 | What does FDA’s greenlight of cultivated meat mean for Europe? ‘There are worldwide implications’ | In what has been described an ‘historic milestone’, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has judged a cultivated meat product – UPSIDE Foods’ cell-based chicken – to be as safe as its animal-based counterpart.
Having received the FDA’s... |
| 22.11.2022 | How Nestlé developed paper-based compostable capsules for Nespresso machines | Nestlé-owned Nespresso is best known for its aluminium capsules and compatible machines, the first of which hit the market in 1986. Since then, the company has been working on a range of sustainability initiatives, ranging from recycling sc... |
| 18.11.2022 | Wilk makes yogurt using milk from cultivated cells | Dive Brief:
Israeli food tech company Wilk developed the world’s first yogurt made with cultured milk fat. The product, made with both traditional dairy products and dairy created by cultivated cells, was validated by external laboratories ... |
| 01.11.2022 | Behind Nestle’s approach to sustainable packaging: ‘We want less and better packaging, and better systems’ | Plastic pollution is a global concern. An estimated eight million tonnes of plastic enter the marine environment every year, wreaking havoc on our ecosystem.
And yet, plastic serves a purpose. In the food and beverage sector, the inexpensiv... |
| 31.10.2022 | Solar Foods' Solein: Finnish Company Creates Food Out of Thin Air | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 31 October 2022, 04:10 am
What if in the future we might find ourselves eating air?
This idea may seem absurd in every sense but it might be possible that we will be eating food that is not derived from plants or ... |
| 02.10.2022 | JBS pulls plug on Planterra Foods US plant-based meat operation | The move was first reported by the Denver Business Journal on Saturday, two days after the company filed a notice of its plans with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment explaining that the decision would impact approximately 12... |
| 29.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Food delivery’s latest unicorn, $80m for virtual restaurants, Pat Brown’s new venture | Thailand-based food delivery service Line Man Wongnai became the sector’s latest company to achieve unicorn status with a massive Series B round. Virtual restaurant/cloud kitchen startups like Not So Dark and CloudEats continue to rake in t... |
| 28.09.2022 | CULT Food Science Portfolio Company De Novo Dairy Receives Venture Funding | Toronto, Ontario, September 28, 2022 / CNW /– CULT Food Science Corp. (“CULT” or the “Company”) (CSE: CULT) (OTC: CULTF) (FRA: LN0), an innovative investment platform with an exclusive focus on cellular agriculture that is advancing the dev... |
| 22.09.2022 | InnovaFeed raises $250m to expand edible insect platform, build plant in Decatur, IL | The new US site is co-located with an ADM corn processing facility. This will ensure that the feedstock (byproducts of wet corn milling), and resulting insect ingredients, are consistent, says the company, but will also save water and energ... |
| 15.09.2022 | UK alternative protein: UK could be leader with faster regulation, more funding for cell ag | All eyes are on the next country in the world to approve and regulate the sale of alternative meat products produced through cell-culturing techniques.
Singapore was the first after it gave Eat Just the go-ahead to sell its cultivated chick... |
| 15.09.2022 | Do artificial sweeteners increase risk of cardiovascular diseases? | Excessive added sugar consumption is recognised as a major risk factor by public health authorities. The World Health Organization (WHO), for example, recommends that less than 5% of daily energy intake should come from free sugars.
Artific... |
| 07.09.2022 | From regenerative ag to reformulation: A deep-dive into how PepsiCo is ‘reimagining the way food is grown, made and enjoyed’ | When PepsiCo launched Pep+ in October 2021, the company said it wanted to ‘fundamentally change’ how it does business for the betterment of people and planet. From ingredient sourcing and production to supporting consumers make choices tha... |
| 01.09.2022 | SIMULATE targets restaurants with new simulated chicken products | Alternative protein startup SIMULATE, known for its NUGGS and TENDERS, is introducing two new versions of its plant-based, simulated chicken product aimed at restaurants.
STRIPS are similar to grilled chicken, while CUTLETS mimic the kind o... |
| 18.08.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Oatside secures $65m for Singapore’s first oat milk, input supplier iProcure scores $10m | Singapore’s first-ever oat milk brand Oatside made headlines this week with news of its sizable Series A round while iProduce landed funds to expand its input distribution tech across Africa. Fashion designer Stella McCartney is helping lau... |
| 17.08.2022 | ADM teams up with New Culture to scale up animal-free dairy platform | An investor in New Culture and fellow animal-free dairy co Perfect Day (which makes whey protein via microbial fermentation and announced a joint development agreement with ADM in 2018) via its ADM Ventures arm, ADM said that its “product... |
| 05.08.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Vertical farmer Spread raises $30m, McWin launches $500m restaurant fund | Kyoto-based Spread set a record for foodtech funding in Japan this week with a Series A raise for its vertical farming operation. Investment firm McWin has launched a fund for restaurants, while Source Global bagged a late-stage round for i... |
| 04.08.2022 | Cultivated Palm Oil Has Potential to Reduce Dependency on Controversial Palm Oil Industry | Clean Food Group, a company developing cultivated palm oil alternatives made from yeast, is currently preparing for the commercialisation of its Clean Palm Oil planned for 2023 aiming to reduce dependency on the controversial palm industry.... |
| 03.08.2022 | Mimic Seafood following up Tunato success with Aubergeel launch | Madrid, Spain-based start-up Mimic Seafood recently launched its first plant-based sefaood analog product.
Mimic's Tunato is a plant-based tuna analog comprised of tomato, olive oil, algae, soy sauce, and a blend of spices.
Mimic Seafood ha... |
| 03.08.2022 | Mimic Seafood to Rapidly Expand Tomato-Based Tuna Alternative Across Europe | Spanish alt-seafood brand Mimic Seafood achieved several milestones last year, including raising an undisclosed sum in its pre-seed funding round.
Following the round, the Madrid-based company began to receive orders from B2B customers acro... |
| 03.08.2022 | Most consumers don’t understand what ‘carbon-neutral’ means: study | Dive Brief:
Nearly 6 in 10 consumers either don’t know what the term “carbon neutral” means or they incorrectly define it, according to new research from Morning Consult. Less than half of consumers who say they have changed their behavior ... |
| 02.08.2022 | Cultivated seafood start-up E-Fishient Protein claims product “will be better than the original” | Petah Tikva, Israel-based E-fishient Protein, a collaboration of BioMeat FoodTech and the Volcani Institute, is working to develop raw cell-based materials for fish cutlets, fingers, balls, and fillets.
BioMeat is the controlling partner in... |
| 20.07.2022 | Стартап из Нидерландов вырастил сосиски в пробирке | Нидерландская биотехнологическая компания Meatable представила сосиски из свинины, выращенной в лаборатории, сообщает TechCrunch. Коммерческий запуск продукта запланирован на 2025 год.
Meatable основали в 2018 году. Стартап использует культ... |
| 20.07.2022 | Cultivated meat company Meatable showcases its first product — synthetic sausages | Meatable, a Dutch biotech company developing cultivated “lab-grown” meat products, has revealed images of its inaugural pork sausage for the first time.
Founded in 2018, Meatable is one of several companies developing cell-cultured meat pro... |
| 12.07.2022 | Mycorena Develops “First Ever” Mycoprotein-Based Butter | Sweden’s Mycorena has developed what it claims is the first mycoprotein-based butter prototype. The innovation could pave the way for mycoprotein to be used in alt-dairy products as well as alt-meat.
To make the butter, Mycorena uses a uniq... |
| 30.06.2022 | Givaudan partners on gum targeting kids' sugar cravings | Dive Brief:
Givaudan has partnered with Israeli food tech startup Sweet Victory to help it develop a chewing gum for children designed to stop sugar cravings. In a press release, Sweet Victory claims that chewing its gum makes sweet foods a... |
| 20.06.2022 | Sustainable nutrition in alt cheese and butter: ‘More than ever, plant-based alternatives need to have a high nutritional value’ | Consumer demands are changing. Where once shoppers were blinkered by flavour profile, price point, and basic health claims, today’s consumer wants more from their food and drink: superior nutrition and environmental sustainability.
In a 202... |
| 16.06.2022 | Impossible vs Incredible round two: Impossible Foods sues Zoglo's Incredible Food over 'confusingly similar' trademarks | Impossible Foods - which recently accused Motif FoodWorks of infringing one of its US patents and has also been involved in a long-running trademark dispute with Impossible X – said it had raised concerns that Zoglo's marks were “confus... |
| 09.06.2022 | Hershey applies to patent dairy-free chocolate with roasted grain | Dive Brief:
Hershey is seeking a patent on a method of using roasted grain flour — made from rice, wheat, oats, corn, sorghum or millet — as a substitute for milk protein in a dairy-free alternative to milk chocolate. The Pennsylvania choco... |
| 08.06.2022 | Investing in SCiFi Foods | One of the greatest challenges the world faces today is how to sustainably feed our ever-growing global population without compromising the environment or human health. Compounding this challenge are rapidly rising levels of global food ins... |
| 03.06.2022 | Op-Ed: War and Food Supply Chain Disruptions Reveal Global Food System Vulnerability | 5 Mins Read
By: Irina Gerry
We need to rethink our food system and secure a better future. Here’s why.
The first shock came just a couple of months ago with disruption of sunflower oil supply. The world’s largest supplier, Ukraine, was cut ... |
| 26.05.2022 | To offset or inset? Carbon offset market insists it can provide ‘transparency and integrity’ as food firms look to supply chain solutions | Voluntary carbon credits, or offsets, allow companies to buy carbon credits to balance against their own emissions. A company might, for instance, invest in environmental projects like land restoration or tree planting in other parts of the... |
| 22.04.2022 | 8 carbon-neutral brands aiming to cut the food and beverage industry's emissions | At last fall’s United Nations Climate Change conference, companies including Mondelēz and Mars vowed to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. One increasingly popular path to help hit these targets is launching a carbon- or climate-neutral ce... |
| 08.04.2022 | UK becomes first country to regulate CBD products as food, ‘de-risks category for investors’ | The UK has become the first country in the world to regulate the public sale of orally-administered, legal cannabinoids following the publication last week of a list of permitted products. The move will serve to “de-risk” cannabidiol (CBD) ... |
| 07.04.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Umiami grabs $30m for alt-chicken, funding for forest tech grows | France’s Umiami took a step closer to commercializing its whole-cut vegan chicken breast this week with the close of an Astanor Ventures-led Series A round.
Elsewhere, two startups raised funds for their reforestation-focused tech, while th... |
