December 2025

Plant-based giant Beyond Meat has revealed the results of its latest LCA on its flagship burger and made its first carbon disclosure submission in November. Beyond Meat has released the climate impact data of the latest iteration of its…
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The Netherlands' Central Bureau of Food Trade has published a report on supermarkets' best practices to drive the protein transition, and is calling on the government to play its part too. This year, supermarkets in the Netherlands…
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The UN FAO has released its annual Statistical Yearbook for 2025, featuring data about the food and agriculture system, land use, emissions, and more. Here are the 10 most important charts. Each year, the UN Food and Agriculture…
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Scientists at Italy's public research agency have developed prototypes of nutrient-rich sweet snacks from cultured plant cells and fruit residues, offering a glimpse at the future of food. Italy may have rejected cultivated meat, but…
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Two new surveys highlight the growing consumer acceptance of alternative pet food, with cultivated meat particularly piquing their interest. It has been a year when sustainable pet food truly found its footing. People in the UK were…
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Japanese cellular agriculture specialist IntegriCulture has introduced Cellag, a brand to sell its own products, as well as those by other companies, across the food, cosmetics, and materials categories. To drive greater interest and…
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South Korean food tech startup SeaWith has signed a supply deal with the UK's 3D Bio-Tissues, whose cell culture media can reduce the cost of the former's cultivated meat by 30%. Most Koreans are open to trying cultivated meat, but its…
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The Cultured Hub, a biotech facility run by Swiss food industry giants, has expanded its service to include plant cell culture technology for coffee, cocoa and citrus. Swiss biotech plant The Cultured Hub is broadening its horizons with…
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With livestock emissions a leading cause of climate change, a new sustainability challenge seeks to connect breakthrough innovators with a leading retail network to drive decarbonisation in Asia. Sustainability startups from around the…
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New Zealand startup Leaft Foods has signed a distribution deal to use its Rubisco protein as an egg replacer in baked goods, ahead of a major year of expansion. How would you like a brioche made with alfalfa leaves instead of eggs? …
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The future food industry has seen plenty of victories this year, spanning regulatory approvals, supermarket pledges, and women's wellness. Here are the 10 biggest wins for food tech in 2025. 1) Cultivated meat approvals accelerated …
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Waitrose's mushroom wellington, Offbeast's plant-based ribs, and Typcal's new mycelium factory. New products and launches…
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Insights from food systems changemakers drove our reporting this year. Below, we present our top 10 interviews of the year, featuring an EU lawmaker, a former White House advisor, and the queen of plant-based dairy herself. Our exclusives…
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Dutch cultivated meat pioneer Mosa Meat has secured €15M ($17.6M) in funding to support its regulatory progress and market entry, while dramatically cutting production costs. Following an oversubscribed crowdfunding round and several…
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From product labels to school lunches to regulatory progress, 2025 has seen a lot of wins and losses for alternative protein – here are the 10 standout developments. Note: all wins are listed in chronological order of when they were…
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In a year full of economic uncertainty and consolidation, our readers were most interested in funding and policy stories. Here are Green Queen's 10 most-read future food stories of 2025, featuring Trump's tariffs, Beyond Meat, and Michelin…
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Plant-based companies have witnessed a spike in investment this year, despite declines for cultivated meat and fermentation. Here are the 10 largest future food funding rounds of 2025, featuring animal-free eggs, yeast proteins, and Beyond…
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Dutch cultivated pork maker Meatable is winding down its operations after failing to secure funding, its shareholder has announced. Days after Israel's Believer Meats announced it had ceased operations, another leading cultivated meat…
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Estonian startup Äio has secured a €1.2M ($1.4M) grant from the national innovation agency to produce its yeast-derived Flavoured Fat on a commercial scale. Ahead of a year when it plans to enter the market and launch a Series A funding…
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Ikea's VC arm, Ingka Investments, has bought a majority stake in Sweden's The Green Dairy, which makes plant-based products from oats and fava beans, with an 80 million kronor ($8.6M) investment. Long known for its interest in the…
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Swiss food tech startup Yeastup has opened an industrial-scale facility to repurpose spent brewer's yeast into proteins and functional ingredients. It's now raising another Series A round. Switzerland's Yeastup has opened an…
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