Future Food Quick Bites: Just Egg, Oatly Capsule & Broccoli Leaf Soup
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Just Egg’s Germany debut, Oatly’s latest fashion collab, and HappyCow’s 2026 vegan index.
New products and launches
After announcing the move through a partnership with Vegan Food Group last year, Eat Just has brought its mung-bean-based Just Egg to Germany, where it is stocked in 280 Rewe stores in cities like Berlin, Frankfurt, Mainz, and more.
Hamburg-based mycelium protein startup Infinite Roots has launched a new line of meat alternatives under the MushRoots brand. These include burger patties, minced meat, and two types of meatballs, which are available at Rewe Nord in Germany and Billa Plus in Austria.
Across the Atlantic, New York-based metabolic health brand Veracity has unveiled its plant-based Metabolic Power Protein, a vanilla-cinnamon-flavoured powder designed to build lean muscle. It’s made with a base of pea, pumpkin seed and chia seed proteins, contains 20g of complete protein per 36g, and is enhanced with Nutrition21‘s Myovera ingredient, which doubles protein synthesis.
Post Consumer Brands has extended its collaboration with Premier Protein to launch a Premier Protein Granola line with pea protein concentrate and wheat protein isolate. The two flavours, Honey Almond and Chocolate (which is vegan), are available at supermarkets nationwide.
US chain Peet’s Coffee has partnered with pistachio milk maker Táche to introduce a pistachio rose latte and pistachio matcha latte for its winter menu.
Speaking of plant-based milk, Ripple Foods has launched a new organic line of pea milk in original and vanilla flavours, featuring with 5g of protein per cup. It’s available at Target, Hy-Vee, Wakefern, ShopRite, and Harris Teeter, with others to follow.
Whole-food-focused brand Actual Veggies has rolled out a California Garden veggie burger at Whole Foods Market stores across the US.
Plant-based influencers John Lewis (Badass Vegan) and Torre Washington are hosting Wellness Unleashed, an immersive retreat from April 15-19 at the Mother Earth Vegan Luxury Boutique Hotel, a Blue Zone wellness centre in Tamarindo, Costa Rica.
Dutch plant protein specialist Schouten Europe has created three new falafel products for its B2B customers in retail and foodservice, spanning harissa, green pea and mint, and beetroot variants.
Extending its spotlight on fashion, Swedish oat milk giant Oatly has teamed up with Los Angeles-based Kids of Immigrants to launch Pour Into Others, a barista workwear capsule comprising a jacket, messenger bag, and cap.
Swedish furniture giant Ikea has added a broccoli leaf soup at its restaurants in the country, in partnership with Axfoundation and Grönsakshallen Sorunda. Roughly a quarter of every broccoli plant contains leaves that are left to rot, but the company has valorised these as a base of its new dish, which is available in limited quantities for 25 kronor ($2.70).
And Danish startup Tempty Foods has rolled out its mycelium-based square and burger patties in 128 Coop stores across the country, as well as select Kvickly and SuperBrugsen outlets.
Company and finance updates
Impossible Foods served plant-based sliders, nuggets and picadillo at the finish line of American DJ Diplo’s Run Club in Miami over the weekend.
There’s change at the top for plant-based meat maker Daring Foods, with CEO Jeffrey Gendelman exiting the company. He’s replaced by Chris Coburn, who is the general manager for the international business of Australia’s v2food, which acquired Daring last year.
Liberation Bioindustries, a contract manufacturer for precision-fermented ingredients, has also replaced its CEO, with co-founder Mark Warner transitioning to the CTO position and his fellow founder Etan Bendheim stepping into the top role.
Meanwhile, at Heura Foods, Laurent Gubbels has left his role as head of global content and social after four-and-a-half years at the company. He is now head of social and marketing at GUB Media.
Sweden’s Dug Foodtech, known for its Dug brand of potato milk, has entered bankruptcy and been delisted from the Nasdaq First North Growth Market. It is now seeking acquisition offers via a tender process.
Food for Climate League, a non-profit that works with food companies to make menus more climate-smart, has rebranded to BITE: Building Impact Through Eaters.
Policy and awards
Discovery platform HappyCow has published its 2025 Vegan City Index, naming London as the world’s top city for plant-based eating, followed by Paris, Berlin and Barcelona. In the US, New York City leads the list.
French firm Nūmi, which is working on a cultivated breast milk, has been named in Wired‘s 2026 list of the 100 Hottest Startups in Europe.
Finally, ProVeg Incubator has kickstarted its Fast-track to Impact Programme, a digital initiative to support early-stage alternative protein startups with “strategic clarity, resilience, and high-impact connections”. Applications are open till February 8, with the programme set to run for three months.
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