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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 Dairy

Cultured Cheddar Slices: Stockeld Dreamery Bets on Fermentation for ‘Third Wave’ of Vegan Cheese

Anay Mridul Feb 9, 2024

Swedish vegan dairy startup Stockeld Dreamery has launched fermented Cheddar slices called Melt, which it describes as part of the 'third wave' of plant-based cheese. Stockeld Dreamery is bringing fermentation to sliced cheese with its…
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Vegan

One Planet Pizza’s Joe Hill: ‘Selling A Million Vegan Pizzas Took Me By Surprise’

Anay Mridul Feb 9, 2024

One Planet Pizza co-founder Joe Hill tells Green Queen about the company's uphill battle in the face of Brexit, war and a pandemic; going on The Apprentice; his trouble with misinformation about veganism, and selling a million pizzas. …
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Future Foods

Can Microalgae Change the Way You Use Fat Forever? This Michelin-Starred Chef Thinks So

Anay Mridul Feb 9, 2024

With seed oils on the back burner and olive oil questioned for its climate impact, one company is banking on microalgae, and to convince you, it has sought the help of a three-Michelin-starred chef. We're having a fat moment. People are…
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Policy & Regulation

Meat Misinformation: How Big Beef is Funding Education Schemes to Influence Kids

Anay Mridul Feb 8, 2024

Today's kids are more vulnerable to climate change than any generation, and thus more inclined to have consumption behaviours that are kinder to the planet – the meat industry is trying to derail that by influencing the education system. …
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Climate Change

‘Crossing the Divide’: The Four Worldviews for the Future of Agriculture, and How to Combine Them

Anay Mridul Feb 8, 2024

With agriculture's impact on the climate becoming clearer than ever, there are distinct views on how best to tackle the problem and enable a healthy, affordable and sustainable food system. A new report looks at the most ideal approach. …
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Pets

Bond Pet Foods and Hill’s Pet Nutrition Reach Scaling Milestone for Precision-Fermented Proteins

Anay Mridul Feb 8, 2024

US companies Bond Pet Foods and Hill's Pet Nutrition have announced a milestone development in their partnership, trading two tonnes of precision-fermented proteins to create animal-free products for our furry friends. Colorado-based…
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Alt Protein

Mission Impossible: Alt-Meat Giant Now Serves the US Army, Marking a New Avenue for Plant-Based Food

Anay Mridul Feb 8, 2024

Military culture has always been a dominant driver of our food and cooking habits – by partnering with the US Army, can Impossible Foods bring about a new dawn for plant-based meat? Today, Spam is a cult-favourite meat product in many…
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Food & Nutrition

Unilever Targets €1.5B in GLP-1 Boosting Plant-Based Food Sales by 2025 to Help Consumers Boost Gut Health

Anay Mridul Feb 7, 2024

Can our bodies help us create a natural Ozempic effect through vegan food consumption? Unilever is banking on plant-based diets to enhance the gut microbiome and boost consumers' health. With Ozempic and Wegovy dominating conversations…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: Valentine’s Specials, Scotch Eggs & Greek Dragons’ Den

Anay Mridul Feb 7, 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 Fortnum and Mason's cultivated scotch egg tasting, a Dragons' Den deal…
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Food & Nutrition

Yali Bio Announces ‘World’s First’ Yeast-Derived Breast Milk Fat from Precision Fermentation

Anay Mridul Feb 7, 2024

Californian startup Yali Bio has created what it claims is the world's first breast milk fat made from yeast, using precision fermentation to allow infant formulas to more closely match the nutrition provided by human milk. Yali Bio,…
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Alt Dairy

Dunkin’ Lawsuit: Is It Discriminatory to Have a Non-Dairy Milk Surcharge?

Anay Mridul Feb 6, 2024

Dunkin' is being sued for $5M under the Americans with Disabilities Act, with plaintiffs alleging that the surcharge on plant-based milk discriminates against people with lactose intolerance. Do their claims stack up? The US's…
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Alt Protein

Heura Raises €40M Series B as Startup Promises Profitability in Boost to Plant-Based Industry

Anay Mridul Feb 6, 2024

Spanish plant-based meat startup Heura has raised €40M ($43M) in a Series B round, in what is one of the largest investments in a vegan company in 2023. The company is now on the path to profitability and will look to license its tech and…
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Policy & Regulation

What the US FDA Reorganisation Means for Alternative Protein Regulation

Anay Mridul Feb 6, 2024

Sparked by the infant formula crisis, the FDA is about to undergo a major overhaul that will transform its human foods programme and regulatory affairs teams – what does this mean for alternative proteins? In February 2022, the US Food…
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Cell-Based News

As GOOD Meat & UPSIDE Foods End Restaurant Collabs, What’s Next for Cultivated Meat Tastings?

Anay Mridul Feb 6, 2024

The restaurants serving cultivated meat in Singapore and the US have stopped doing so – as the industry enters a crucial year for regulation and commercialisation, what's next for consumers hoping to taste cultured meat? July 2023…
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Green Business

The Cinnamon Kitchen: Celeb-Favourite Indian Vegan Bakery Lands Shark Tank Deal at $1.4M Valuation

Anay Mridul Feb 5, 2024

Indian vegan bakery The Cinnamon Kitchen secured a ₹60 lakh ($72,000) investment from Aman Gupta on Shark Tank India. Landing the deal at 5% equity, the brand was valued at ₹12 crores ($1.44M), and is among a handful of other plant-based…
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Food & Nutrition

Q&A with Churchill Fellow Jenny Chapman: ‘We Need to Stop Using the Term ‘Ultra-Processed’ in Nutrition’

Anay Mridul Feb 5, 2024

Ultra-processed foods aren't all bad – and we need to stop using that term when we're talking about nutrition, according to a new report into health and sustainability. Scientists should stop using the term 'ultra-processed' to describe…
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Cell-Based News

Singapore’s Islamic Council Rules Cultivated Meat as Halal Under the Right Conditions

Anay Mridul Feb 5, 2024

The Islamic Religious Council of Singapore has issued a fatwa declaring that cultivated meat is generally halal, and Muslims can eat these products as long as they adhere to halal standards. The Fatwa Committee of the Majlis Ugama Islam…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Fungi in My Cheese: Bolder Foods Unveils Mycelium Ingredient for Umami-Packed Cheese Alternatives

Anay Mridul Feb 5, 2024

Belgian food tech startup Bolder Foods has introduced MycoVeg, a functional mycelium ingredient that offers creamy and stretchy textures in non-dairy cheese. The biomass-fermented innovation is being trialled by dairy companies, and is set…
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Future Foods

Safeguarding the Future: How RESPECTfarms is Helping Farmers Transition to Cultivated Meat

Anay Mridul Feb 2, 2024

In the 1980s, Willem van Eelen began working on the technology that produces what we know today as cultivated meat – now, his daughter, via RESPECTfarms, is extending his vision to help farmers take the plunge, beginning with the world's…
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Health

The Ozempic Rush: 10 Things to Know About Semaglutide, Food Intake, Obesity & Weight Loss

Anay Mridul Feb 2, 2024

Ozempic is everywhere right now, from newspaper headlines to household shelves. But what do Americans really think about weight loss drugs? Here are 10 things you should know. In our food trends predictions for this year, we highlighted…
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Books

Generation Eco: 7 of the Best Climate Change Books for Kids

Anay Mridul Feb 2, 2024

With Gen Alpha deemed to be the eco-warrior demographic growing up in an increasingly volatile climate (literally), it's never a bad thing to teach children about the real world – here are seven of the best climate change books for kids. …
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