Future Foods

Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Purple Carrot's partnership with Fable Foods, Gosh!'s new points-based packaging, and SimpliiGood's spirulina-based salmon. …
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Finland is well-placed to become a cellular agriculture leader, with its export potential set to reach €1B in the next decade – but funding and regulation challenges must be addressed. In a decade's time, cultivated meat, cell-based…
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Researchers in Japan say they've reached a "breakthrough" in tissue engineering that could open up "transformative opportunities" for cultivated meat production. To solve one of cultivated meat's biggest challenges, scientists have…
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What will the food system look like in 2050? According to the EU, meat will give way to plants and novel proteins, no matter how things end up. The EU's production and consumption patterns require "fundamental changes" to reach its…
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European future food startups saw a 25% boost in funding in 2024, making the region a global leader in the space – but economic uncertainty is keeping investors cautious this year. While US tariffs keep business leaders and investors on…
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In our interview series, we quiz future food investors about the solutions that excite them the most, their favourite climate-forward restaurant, and what they look for in successful founders. Steve Simitzis is a Partner at Solvable…
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With sales of meat analogues continuing to drop, some plant-based companies are moving away from replication and betting on new product formats. Revo Foods is one of them. “The plant-based industry had a dogma that if you replicate meat…
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Bel Group France has partnered with portfolio company Standing Ovation to upcycle its whey waste to produce precision-fermented casein proteins. What if waste from cow's milk could help create next-generation dairy products? That's…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers This's pasta partnership with Ugo Foods Group, Starday's $11M Series A round, and a nomination for the Earthshot Prize. …
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US consumers value authenticity over science in their beliefs around food and agriculture, with a majority seeking truth as "simple, safe and familiar", a new survey has found. How do you define truth when it comes to the food system…
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Food tech startup The Better Meat Co has received its sixth patent in the US, which covers a method to produce mycelium proteins using potato waste as a feedstock. As it ramps up production and mobilises capital to enter its next growth…
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Eat Just is bringing its bestselling vegan egg to Europe after striking a distribution deal with Vegan Food Group, which is investing £11.5M ($15.2M) to ramp up production at its sites. Just Egg – the pioneering vegan egg alternative…
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NoPalm Ingredients, a Dutch producer of sustainable yeast-derived fats, has rolled out a new brand amid its scale-up process, with its CEO arguing that palm oil substitutes are critical now. Smarter, circular alternatives to problematic…
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With all the uncertainties around global tariffs, most industries are in a precarious position, including food tech. Here's what sector VCs are advising startup founders about the global trade war. It's only mid-April, but 'tariff'…
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South Korean alternative protein pioneer Intake has secured ₩13.5B ($9.2M) in Series C funding to commercialise its precision-fermented dairy, meat and egg proteins. Seoul-based food tech leader Intake is expanding its alternative…
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In our interview series, we quiz future food investors about the solutions that excite them the most, their favourite climate-forward restaurant, and what they look for in successful founders. Bodil Sidén is a General Partner at Kost…
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Alternative protein startup BioCraft Pet Nutrition is working with Prefera Petfood to manufacture a cat food product with 99% cultivated mouse meat. Shortly after registering its cultivated mouse meat with Austrian regulators…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Bold Bean Co's Ottolenghi collaboration, Beyond Meat's new documentary, and Miyoko Schinner's upcoming vegan cookbook. …
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Australian firm Nourish Ingredients has completed an industrial-scale production of its animal-free, meat-like fat while keeping costs low – here's how it's doing it. Six months after forming a partnership with Chinese fermentation…
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Japan's first cultivated meat company, IntegriCulture, has unveiled several prototype dishes and products made from duck liver cells. Japanese cellular agriculture specialist IntegriCulture has provided a glimpse of the potential of its…
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From animal-free egg salad to a milk alternative made from corn, here are the future food products that stood out most to our expert reviewer at Expo West 2025. It's that time of year again: when Anaheim, California is packed with…
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