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At the recent Smart Kitchen Summit (SKS) held virtually this year and hosted by food tech news The Spoon, the founders of two of the world’s most recognisable alternative protein startups didn’t hold back in a showcase of their difference…
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A cultured meat research consortium project called Meat4All has just been awarded a €2.7 million (US$3.16 million) grant under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 R&D funding programme. It marks the first cell-based meat project to…
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Green Monday has made headlines yet again, now with a groundbreaking partnership between its food tech arm OmniFoods and McDonald's Hong Kong, making it the first plant-based startup in the world to land a major long-term collab with the…
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The World Sustainability Organisation (WSO) and the Sustainable Seafood Initiative under the Good Food Institute (GFI) have teamed up to establish a joint certification program for plant-based seafood. It will be recognised under a new…
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While many food techs have been working on sustainable alternatives for meat, eggs and dairy, there perhaps hasn’t been as much innovation focused on honey – an often overlooked food that vegans avoid due to ethical and environmental…
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The Good Food Institute India (GFI India), a nonprofit organisation supporting India’s burgeoning alternative protein ecosystem, recently hosted its Smart Protein Summit to great fanfare. Several key announcements were made during the…
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After teasing about the collaboration on social media over the weekend, Hong Kong’s plant-based group Green Monday has announced a milestone partnership with McDonald’s. An all-new plant-based menu will roll out across the city at all 280…
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As the demand for plant-based foods continues to surge, Nestlé says it will step up innovation and begin to launch more plant-based products in the next few weeks. Since the beginning of this year, the Swiss food giant has made clear its…
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New York and Singapore-based venture capital firm Big Idea Ventures (BIV) and Ashika Group, one of India’s leading retail financial services companies, have partnered together to launch a new investment fund and accelerator focused on…
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Three years ago, two female biologists asked their vegan friends what they missed most about, and the resounding answer they got was eggs. That’s when they decided to embark on a journey to develop a 100% plant-based egg that cooks, looks…
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Evo Foods, India’s first plant-based egg startup, has revealed that it will be launching its first liquid egg alternative in India this year through its direct-to-consumer website and restaurants across the country. Once it establishes a…
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All over the world, legislators are wasting their time (and our money) fighting battles about what to call foods we have been eating for decades. Apparently we consumers are so moronic that we are incapable of telling the difference…
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A number of exciting food and agri-tech startups in Asia-Pacific have been recognised for their disruptive and sustainable solutions to tackle our broken food system. Announced at the recent Future Food Asia conference, Australian…
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Montreal-based biotechnology company Hyasynth has won the race to become the first to commercialise cannabidiol (CBD) produced and extracted through a yeast fermentation process, without the need for traditional cultivation or extraction…
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Heura, the Barcelona-based vegan meat brand, has just launched in the U.K. at two leading specialty plant-forward retailers. British customers will now be able to purchase three of the startup’s most popular 100% plant-based meat…
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Hooked, the Swedish food tech behind the world’s first plant-based shredded salmon, has just signed their first investor to launch their sustainable and vegan-friendly tuna product in the Nordic market. With their plant-based salmon in the…
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BVeg Foods aims to become a trusted and high quality co-manufacturer and distributor for plant-based meats both locally and globally as they building ecosystem fundamentals in India by addressing white space opportunities. By: The Good…
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Next Gen, a Singapore-based food tech, has just announced its official launch after closing a US$2.2 million seed funding round. The startup has already established its R&D centre in the city-state, where it plans to develop its line…
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As Impossible Foods expands its retail distribution to over 11,000 locations nationwide in the U.S., the company reports that the vast majority of its sales are now coming at the expense of animal-derived meat. These figures emerging from…
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Launched by impact investor and plant-based pet food brand Wild Earth founder and CEO Ryan Bethencourt and Mariliis Holm, the former food scientist at cell-based seafood pioneers Finless Foods, Sustainable Food Ventures (SFV) is the first…
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Dao Foods, a cross-border impact investment venture helping bring sustainable protein to China, has just announced the launch of its Dao Foods Venture Fund 1, which will support and invest in 30 alternative protein companies within the…
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