Southeast Asia

Non-profit think tank the Good Food Institute (GFI) APAC has released a report documenting the alt-protein sector’s growth within the APAC region and globally over the past year. Highlights include a 60 percent increase in funding into the…
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Singaporean cellular agriculture startup Umami Meats has closed a $2.4 million pre-seed investment round. The company specialises in “cultivated, not caught” seafood production. Funding has been earmarked for continued plant-based serum…
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Eat Just has announced a significant first: over the weekend, the company partnered with chefs at iconic Singaporean hawker stalls to launch dishes made with cultivated GOOD Meat chicken products across the island nation. Select hawkers…
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Audra Labs, the plant-based meat enterprise that's an offshoot from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star), is headed by former principal researcher Dr. Andrew Wan. Formerly of the Bioengineering and Nanotechnology…
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Singaporean startup Float Foods has filed a PCT patent application for its OnlyEg development. The application comes after nutritional improvements have been made. Details include a white with 10 percent protein, equal to that of a…
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Plant-based meat butcher Love Handle has opened in late January in Singapore's Chinatown neighbourhood. The vegan concept store sells a range of alternative meats, condiments, and plant-based dairy—and is the first of its kind in Asia. The…
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Travel 'round the world each week with Green Queen as we round up the latest new from plant-based food and bev companies. This week, US wellness brand Whole30 has a new development on the vegan front. Elsewhere, egg alternatives are…
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Singaporean plant based meat startup Next Gen Foods has secured a record breaking $100 million, the largest single Series A investment in the sector to date, following its two-part $30M seed last July. The company's vegan chicken TiNDLE,…
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Singapore’s Growthwell Foods has made good on its ambitions to launch a new plant-based brand. HAPPIEE! Has been developed to offer alternatives to conventional chicken and fish products. All items are manufactured at the company’s…
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Unilever-owned brand The Vegetarian Butcher is now available for consumer purchase in Singapore. It will be stocked by the FairPrice Group, Cold Storage Singapore, and RedMart, and online on Amazon. The Vegetarian Butcher's Singapore…
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U.K. tempeh brand Better Nature has rebranded across its entire product range ahead of Veganuary 2022. New packaging has been designed to highlight the benefits of tempeh as a superfood, not a meat alternative. The revamped livery goes…
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Eat Just has announced its GOOD Meat division has been given regulatory approval for new products in another world first. The news comes exactly one year after the world’s first approval of its kind, also granted to GOOD Meat, for…
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Singapore's National University of Singapore has debuted “Introduction to Advanced Meat Alternatives”, a graduate-level alt-protein module. It launches in January 2022 and is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. The module lasts 13…
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Thai food manufacturer CPF is making a bid for plant-based success across the Asian region with its range of meat substitutes designed for flexitarians. After launching in their home country earlier this yera, MEAT ZERO has announced its…
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Subway Singapore is now offering a meatless chicken schnitzel patty, made by Nestlé-owned Harvest Gourmet. The patty makes use of a soy protein base with added animal-derived egg whites. The sandwich will be available until January 18 next…
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Singapore-based vegan meat maker Growthwell Foods has announced the successful completion of its new innovation and R&D centre. Located within the JTC Food Hub in Senoko, the facility will act as a preliminary production plant, with…
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Just a few short years ago, it was unusual to get more than a handful of stories each week about meat analogues, dairy alternatives, and other alt and/or vegan foods. Nowadays, the opposite is true. In fact, there are so many developments…
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Singapore food tech Shiok Meats has opened the doors to its “mini-plant”, the first-of-its-kind R&D facility dedicated to cultivated seafood in the city in a ceremony inaugurated by the city's state environmental minister. Shiok has…
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Chef Janice Wong wants to bring Singapore its first-ever tree-to-bar chocolate made with locally grown cacao. Most of the world’s cocoa is produced in just two countries: the Ivory Coast and Ghana. But now, the city-state of…
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Temasek, the Singapore government-backed investment firm, has just established a new platform dedicated to scaling and commercialising sustainable foods and alternative proteins. Providing R&D advisory, pilot facilities and opening up…
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Retykle, the Hong Kong-based resale childrenswear platform, has just landed in Singapore for as its first international destination.
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