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Singaporeans More Open To Cultivated Meat Than The US Consumers, New Study Finds
Singaporeans are more accepting of cultivated meats than their U.S. counterparts. The finding comes from a study conducted by the Singapore Management University (SMU). Data points to a correlation between social image and acceptance of!-->…
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New APAC Cellular Agriculture Coalition Aims To ‘Foster A Harmonized Industry’ Ahead Of Commercialization
The APAC Society for Cellular Agriculture (APAC-SCA) announced its launch this week as a new coalition with a mission to offer member companies developing cultivated meat and seafood access to shared information. Its key priorities include!-->…
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#IWD2022: 10 Women Changing The Future Of Impact In Asia
International Women’s Day is internationally recognised on the March 8th every year, and represents a focal point for women’s rights and is a celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. At times, it!-->…
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2021 Record Year For Alt Protein Investment, With APAC Showing Significant Funding Growth
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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Singapore’s Umami Meats Nets $2.4 Million For ‘Cultivated, Not Caught’ Seafood
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 Partners With Singapore Hawkers To Bring Heritage And The Future Of Food Together
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 Bids To Bring Meat-Free Streaky Bacon And Chicken Fillets To Singapore
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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Float Foods Makes Patent Application for Nutritionally Enhanced Whole Egg Alternative
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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‘Like Meat But Better’: Love Handle Opens Singapore’s First Full Plant-Based Butchery
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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The Week In Plant Based: Whole30 Goes Vegan, Egg Alternatives From Plant B & Ogg Plus Plastic Negative Packaging
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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TiNDLE Raises Record $100M Series A For Plant-Based Chicken Ahead Of US Nationwide Launch
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 Unveils Homegrown HAPPIEE! Brand With Four-Product Launch
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’s The Vegetarian Butcher Announces Retail Launch In Singapore Following Successful Foodservice Foray
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.
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‘Superfood, Not Just Meat Alternative’: Better Nature Unveils Company-Wide Tempeh Rebrand
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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A Year After Historic Cultivated Meat Approval, Singapore Regulator Greenlights More Eat Just Products
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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The National University Of Singapore Announces New Course Module Dedicated To Meat Alternatives
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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Thailand’s CPF Debuts Plant-Based Homegrown Brand Meat Zero in Hong Kong
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 Has Launched A Meatless Chicken Schnitzel Sandwich In Singapore
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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Growthwell Foods Opens New Innovation Centre to Scale Up Vegan Meat And Seafood Production
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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The Week In Food Tech: MEAT ZERO Heads to Singapore, Peas of Heaven Raises €2.7M, and Billie Eilish Unveils Vegan Chocolate
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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Shiok Opens Singapore’s First Cultivated Seafood R&D ‘Mini-Plant’
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.
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