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- Cargill Takes A Bite Out of Cell-Based Chocolate with EU-Backed Collaboration
- Legume Lattes: Koppie Brews Up New Funding to Launch Beanless Coffee By Year-End
- Alternative Protein Funding Down by 20% in 2025, Falling Below $1B for First Time in 7 Years
- UK Startup Cracks $2.7M in Funding to Turn Food Waste Into Egg-Replacing Proteins
- German Govt Awards $6.5M to MicroHarvest to Open Large-Scale Microbial Protein Factory
- Amai Proteins Gets FDA Approval to Sell Sweet Proteins Inspired by Serendipity Berries
- Future Food Quick Bites: Picard x La Vie, Vegan Stracciatella & McDonald’s Veggie
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Future Food Quick Bites
Future Food Quick Bites: Picard x La Vie, Vegan Stracciatella & McDonald’s Veggie
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Picard Surgelés's La Vie collab, Compass Group's…
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Future Food Quick Bites: Ikea x Tiny Chef, Oat Milk Livestream & Super Bowl Wings
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Ikea's Tiny Chef collab, This's financial milestone, and…
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Fermented Protein News
Alternative Protein Funding Down by 20% in 2025, Falling Below $1B for First Time…
The investment downturn in alternative proteins continued in 2025, falling by 20% and totalling under $1B for the…
5 Mins with a Food Tech VC
5 Minutes with A Future Food VC: Oyster Bay Venture Capital’s Felix Leonhardt
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…
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5 Minutes with A Future Food VC: Future Food Fund’s Silla Scheepens
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…
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Funding News
Legume Lattes: Koppie Brews Up New Funding to Launch Beanless Coffee By Year-End
Belgian food tech startup Koppie has secured additional funding and completed an industrial-scale production run…
Alt Coffee & Alt Chocolate News
Cargill Takes A Bite Out of Cell-Based Chocolate with EU-Backed Collaboration
Food industry giant Cargill has teamed up with Kokomodo to advance cell-based chocolate solutions, with financial support from the EU.
In the face of the climate…
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Legume Lattes: Koppie Brews Up New Funding to Launch Beanless Coffee By Year-End
Belgian food tech startup Koppie has secured additional funding and completed an industrial-scale production run of its beanless coffee products, ahead of a planned launch…
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Alternative Fats & Oil News
Clean Cosmetics: Savor Confronts Beauty’s Palm Oil Problem with…
US startup Savor has launched a beauty and personal care division, expanding its carbon-based fats beyond food to…
Blended Meat News
Omeat Becomes Evergreen, Raises $6M to Bring Cultivated Meat to US & Singapore
US cultivated meat startup Omeat has rebranded to Evergreen Connect and secured $6M in new funding to launch…
Ultra-Processed Foods
Cigarettes, Super Bowl & Oat Milk: Food Industry Claps Back As UPF Discourse Intensifies
The debate around ultra-processed foods has been taken up a notch, with comparisons to cigarettes and a Super Bowl ad contrasting with Oatly's embrace of the 'processed'…
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Op-Ed: Where Disgust Meets Distrust: The Viral Psychology Behind the “Ultra-Processed Food” Narrative
The Ultra-Processed Food (UPF) narrative has gone viral by weaponizing the innate human fear of the unknown, also known as neophobia, inadvertently grouping sustainable and…
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Plant-Based Diets
Plant-Based Proteins ‘Back in Growth’ in UK, Says Tesco Amid Whole-Food Wave
Vegan food is returning to growth for the first time in years in the UK, whose largest retailer credits the expanding demand for protein, fibre and whole foods behind the…
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Alternative Protein Funding Down by 20% in 2025, Falling Below $1B for First Time in 7 Years
The investment downturn in alternative proteins continued in 2025, falling by 20% and totalling under $1B for the first time since 2018. The gap between well-capitalised and…
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Food Policy
60 Minutes: RFK Jr Says FDA ‘Will Act’ on Ultra-Processed Foods GRAS…
The US FDA "will act" on a petition by its former chief, which would see the GRAS status of some ultra-processed…
Future Materials & Packaging
Allbirds’s New Animal-Free Leather Shoes Are Made from Plant Proteins & Recycled Tyres
Footwear giant Allbirds has launched what it claims is an "industry-first" collection of shoes made from Modern Meadow's cow-free leather alternative.
Allbirds may be…
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Cambridge University Spinout Bags $5M to Scale Up Fossil-Free, Plant-Based Colours
UK startup Sparxell has raised €4.2M ($5M) in pre-Series A funding to replace fossil-fuel-derived pigments with plant-based colours in the fashion and packaging sectors.
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