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Anay is Green Queen's resident news reporter. Originally from India, he worked as a vegan food writer and editor in London, and is now travelling and reporting from across Asia. He's passionate about coffee, plant-based milk, cooking, eating, veganism, food tech, writing about all that, profiling people, and the Oxford comma.

Alt Protein

Plant-Based Meat & Dairy On Par or Better for Health Than Animal Protein, Finds Analysis

Anay Mridul Nov 26, 2024

When it comes to health, plant-based analogues to meat and dairy have similar or better nutritional profiles, an 11-country study reveals. Vegan burgers, sausages and bacon are better for health than conventional meat, while dairy…
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Alt Dairy

Australia’s All G Gains Regulatory Approval for Animal-Free Lactoferrin in China

Anay Mridul Nov 26, 2024

Sydney-based All G has secured the regulatory greenlight to sell its precision-fermented lactoferrin protein in China. It expects to receive approval in yet another market imminently. In what is yet another marker of China's biotech…
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Alt Dairy

Israeli Regulator Clears Imagindairy’s Animal-Free Whey Protein for Sale

Anay Mridul Nov 26, 2024

Precision fermentation startup Imagindairy has received regulatory approval for its animal-free whey protein in Israel, as it closes in on its latest fundraising round. Israeli startup Imagindairy can now sell its cow-free whey protein…
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Alt Dairy

Succession Star Invites Fans to Brunch in New Ad Campaign for Nature’s Fynd’s Fungi Protein Yogurts

Anay Mridul Nov 26, 2024

Fermentation startup Nature's Fynd has teamed up with actor Justine Lupe in a marketing campaign for its dairy-free Fy yogurts. How often do you get to break bread with a cast member of one of TV's most popular shows ever? It's the…
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Alt Materials

Faircraft: Cultivated Leather Startup Coats Budget with $16M Investment

Anay Mridul Nov 25, 2024

Already working with major luxury brands, French cultivated leather startup Faircraft has raised $15.8M in funding to scale up operations. France may be the second largest exporter of leather in Europe, but a company based in its…
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Green Finance

APAC Agrifood Tech Funding Up by 38%, With India Reclaiming the Top Spot

Anay Mridul Nov 25, 2024

Funding for alternative proteins has grown by 85% this year in Asia-Pacific, mirroring a larger sector-wide recovery, a new AgFunder report shows. Asia-Pacific's agrifood tech sector is showing "remarkable" signs of recovery after two…
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Alt Dairy

Good & Humble: New Zealand Oat Milk Startups Otis & All Good Merge

Anay Mridul Nov 25, 2024

New Zealand-based oat milk makers Otis and All Good have joined forces to form a new entity to champion local growers and expand globally. Otis and All Good, two of New Zealand's best-known oat milk producers, have merged under a new…
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Alt Protein

Alternative Protein Innovation Has Lost Some Momentum, A New Patent Analysis Shows

Anay Mridul Nov 25, 2024

Patents for plant-based meat declined for the first time in a decade in 2022, while innovation in cultivated meat slowed too. In the US, sales of plant-based meat alternatives dipped by 26% between 2021 and 2023, reflecting a wider…
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Climate Change

COP29 Digest, Vol 4: Everything You Need to Know in Food and Climate News Today

Anay Mridul Nov 24, 2024

Welcome to the final edition of Green Queen’s #COP29 Digest. Here, our editorial team curates the must-reads, the must-bookmarks and the must-knows from around the interwebs to help you ‘skim the overwhelm’. Catch up: VOLUME…
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Climate Change

A Sweet Transition: How Cutting Out Sugar Could Save the Planet

Anay Mridul Nov 22, 2024

A new study explores how we can transfer sugar intake from our diets into making products beneficial to the climate. In the last 30 years, the number of people with diabetes has doubled (making up 12% of the adult population), and 95%…
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Alt Protein

Vegan Ready Meal Leader Allplants Seeks Buyer to Rescue Business After Mounting Losses

Anay Mridul Nov 22, 2024

British plant-based ready meal maker Allplants has moved to appoint administrators after recording continued losses, though one potential buyer is lined up. Allplant, the UK's largest vegan ready meal brand, has filed a notice of…
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Zero Waste

UK Retailers Set Up Food Waste Redistribution Project to Feed Millions

Anay Mridul Nov 22, 2024

In a bid to boost food security and cut waste, some of the UK's biggest supermarkets and charities have joined forces to form a surplus food distribution body. Tesco, Sainsbury's and M&S are among 15 organisations that have come…
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Alt Protein

Culture & Collaboration: How Italy Can Become A Plant-Based Food Leader

Anay Mridul Nov 21, 2024

Italy's plant-based market is bucking the global decline, but there are several missed opportunities for companies and the industry as a whole. It has been two months since Gruppo Tonazzo, an Italian company that had been producing meat…
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Alt Protein

Wendy’s Partners with Beyond Meat to Launch Plant Burger in Georgia

Anay Mridul Nov 21, 2024

Beyond Meat and Wendy's Georgia have announced a new menu item, the Plant Burger, a marker of the vegan giant's European focus this year. Californian plant-based pioneer Beyond Meat has struck its latest QSR partnership with fast-food…
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Alt Protein

UK Startup Develops AI Software to Help Alt-Protein Industry Scale Up Faster & Lower Costs

Anay Mridul Nov 21, 2024

London-based New Wave Biotech has launched an AI bioprocess simulation software to help alternative protein companies expand production faster and cheaper. To address two of the biggest challenges facing alternative protein startups – …
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Policy & Regulation

Danish Parliament Agrees Green Deal to Tax Meat Production & Promote Plant-Based Foods

Anay Mridul Nov 21, 2024

After months of negotiations, Denmark's policymakers have agreed on how to implement the livestock emissions tax they announced in June. Denmark's bid to tax livestock farmers and turn farmland into forest has received a broad majority…
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Alt Dairy

Singapore Startup Strikes Deal to Launch Cow-Free Dairy Protein in Functional Coffee Drinks

Anay Mridul Nov 20, 2024

TurtleTree is aiming to launch its animal-free lactoferrin in canned coffee drinks in mid-2025 via a partnership with fellow Singapore startup Mad Foods. Singapore's TurtleTree, which uses precision fermentation to make a bioidentical…
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Seafood

Finneato Fysh Foods Hooks Shark Tank Deal for Squeezable Vegan Tuna

Anay Mridul Nov 20, 2024

Los Angeles-based food influencers Zoya Biglary and Alix Traeger landed a Shark Tank deal with Daniel Lubetzky for their vegan seafood startup Finneato Fysh Foods. Amid the rough waters for plant-based seafood, an up-and-coming brand…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: Greggs x Nigella, Tyson vs Paul & A Whole Lotta AI

Anay Mridul Nov 20, 2024

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 new vegan parmesan products, an oat milk cocktail listing, and a bunch…
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Alt Protein

Stanford Researchers Are Using AI to Elevate the Texture of Plant-Based Meat

Anay Mridul Nov 20, 2024

Scientists at Stanford University suggest that machine learning and mechanical testing can deliver data that can speed up the development of better vegan meat alternatives. Sandpaper, a brain sectioning knife, and super glue. This…
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Cell-Based News

Forged Gras: Vow Becomes First Company to Launch Cultivated Meat in Hong Kong

Anay Mridul Nov 19, 2024

Australian cultivated meat startup Vow has been cleared to sell in Hong Kong, where it will debut cultured foie gras at the Mandarin Oriental. Six months after rolling out its cultured quail parfait in Singapore, Vow is expanding to…
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