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This Startup Uses AI To Help Companies Develop ‘Nutrition 3.0’ Sustainable Future Foods
With our planet soon to reach 10 billion people, feeding the entire population healthily and sustainably is going to be one of the biggest challenges our world faces. Food innovation will be at the forefront of transforming our current!-->…
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Plant-Based Beef Market To Hit US$16 Billion By 2030
The plant-based beef segment alone could grow to over US$16 billion by 2030, new research says, citing shifting consumer habits in younger generations and the flexitarian trend as the primary factors. It also highlights the rising!-->…
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Q&A: Meet The Butcher’s Daughter Who Advocates For Alt Meat “The Future Of Protein Will Look Different In Every Country”
Auriane Borremans was born into a family of butchers and she went on to start her career in the food industry, where she gained experience almost multiple aspects of the food industry, from working at a Michelin-starred restaurant to!-->…
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Kind Technology For Future Food: Global Event To Feature Major Alt Protein Players
This month, alternative protein event organiser KindEarth.Tech (KET) will be hosting the Kind Technology for Future Food, an international virtual event to discuss the future of food and the latest in the plant-based, cell-based and!-->…
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Temasek, Monde Nissin CEO Inject Up To US$30M Into US$70M Bits x Bites China Food-Tech Fund
Chinese food tech venture capital Bits x Bites has announced that it has raised US$30 million in the first close of its US$70 million fund investing in technologies that will help transform China’s agri-food supply chain. Investors backing!-->…
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Asia Expansion: Oatly Launches In Singapore Where 1/3 Consumers Don’t Know About Plant-Based Milk
Oatly, the world’s most famous oat milk brand, has recently landed in Singapore as part of its ambitions to grow its presence across Asia, a region where the dairy market is ripe for disruption. Now available across the city-state’s!-->…
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Mushroom Steak: Meati Foods Raises US$28M Series A Round For Its Fungi-Based Whole-Cut Meats
Meati Foods, a Colorado-based food tech, has secured US$28 million in its Series A funding round. It follows its earlier secret restaurant trial of its plant-based steaks made from fungi and announcement that it will soon roll out its!-->…
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Europe Plant-Based Meat & Dairy To Be Worth US$8.9 Billion By 2025, Report Finds
A new report from Dutch multinational financial firm ING predicts that the plant-based meat and dairy market in the European Union and the U.K. will balloon to €7.5 billion (US$8.87 billion) in the next five years. The analysis also found!-->…
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8 Innovative Startups To Watch At The Future Food-Tech Summit 2020
The need for new technologies to accelerate innovation in the food industry has never been greater, as the world battles the interrelated crises of climate change, food insecurity and the coronavirus pandemic. The upcoming Future Food-Tech!-->…
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10% Switch To Plant-Based Meats By 2030 Equal To Carbon Credit Of 2.7 Billion Trees
According to new research, if the world makes a just a 10% shift away from animal meat and replaces it with plant-based alternatives, it could lead to as much as 38 million hectares of land being freed – an area larger than that of!-->…
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ProVeg Cohort: Women-Led Startups Take On Peanut Protein Chicken, Vegan Chorizo, Algae Milk & More
The ProVeg Incubator has announced its new batch of startups joining its accelerator programme as the fifth cohort, made up of six food techs working on sustainable solutions ranging from algae-based dairy to vegan chocolate. With 10 of!-->…
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Cell-Based Meat Maker Aleph Farms Launches Space Program To Grow Steaks On Mars
Israeli food tech Aleph Farms has recently announced the launch of its new program to produce its cultivated meat in outer space. Called “Aleph Zero”, the project will see the company collaborate with space agencies to bring local!-->…
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As Vegan Demand Surges, Leading Thai Food Company With Plant-Based Range Completes Successful IPO
Editor's Update: This article has been updated to reflect that while NR Instant Produce Pcl does indeed manufacture plant-based products including sauces, condiments and jackfruit-based products, the company is not exclusively plant-based-!-->…
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China’s First-Ever Fermentation & Cultivated Meat Seminar Unites Growing Industry
Held last month in Shanghai, the GFI Consultancy’s (GFIC) seminar session on fermentation and cultivated meat marked the first event of its kind to take place in mainland China. It saw over 80 scientists, investors, food companies and!-->…
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EU Votes To Keep Veggie Burger Labels But Deals A Blow For Plant-Based Dairy
The European Union has voted against proposals that would have banned plant-based products from being labelled with “meaty” terms such as burgers and sausages. While the decisive vote to keep veggie burgers on the menu was hailed a win for!-->…
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Disney’s Robert Iger Joins Board Of Animal-Free Dairy Startup Perfect Day
Animal-free dairy makers Perfect Day has recently announced that Robert Iger, former CEO and current executive chairman of The Walt Disney Company has joined the startup’s board of directors. Filling the first founder-designated board seat!-->…
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Alt Protein Expert & IndieBio CSO Says ‘Lab-Grown Meat Is Scaling Like The Internet’
Lab-grown meat is scaling like the internet, in the words of Ron Shigeta. He’s the co-founder of science accelerator IndieBio, former chief scientific officer of plant-based pet food brand Wild Earth, current resident scientist of!-->…
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Scramble To The Top: 7 Food Tech Pioneers Making Eggs From Plants
While meat alternatives tend to get the lion’s share of the spotlight when it comes to the food tech world, many have overlooked alternatives for one of the most convenient and affordable animal proteins in the world – eggs. Aside from!-->…
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Meat-Tech Invests US$1.2M In Cultured Fat Startup Peace Of Meat Ahead Of Acquisition
Following Israeli cultivated meat food tech Meat-Tech 3D’s earlier announcement that it has signed a letter of intent to purchase a cultured fat company, the startup has now revealed that the company in question is Peace of Meat. It has!-->…
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Did Spanish Food Tech Heura Just Launch The World’s Healthiest Plant-Based Burger?
Heura, the Barcelona-based vegan meat startup, has just launched a new burger dubbed as the healthiest on the market. Thanks to its innovative fat analogue that helps transform extra virgin olive oil into a solid form, Heura’s latest!-->…
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Q&A w/ Philippines Plant-Based Pioneer WTH Foods: “To Market To The Masses, Taste Is Number One”
Stephen Michael Co is the co-founder and CEO of WTH Foods – aka Worth The Health – the first homegrown plant-based meat startup in the Philippines. Having recently joined Big Idea Ventures’ (BIV) latest food tech accelerator programme, the!-->…
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