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4 Mins Read Californian food tech startup Voyage Foods is a step closer to launching its ethical pantry staples. The company has confirmed a $36 million Series A raise co-led by UBS O’Connor and Level One Fund. This brings total funding to $41.7 million. Other participants in the round included Horizons Ventures, SOSV’s Indie Bio, and Social Impact […]
3 Mins Read At the start of the year, Swiss chocolatier Lindt released two vegan chocolate bars in the U.K, to coincide with Veganuary. Canada followed in February and now, the U.S. is getting a taste of the original and salted caramel incarnations. It’s not clear whether the hazelnut variety, launched in the U.K., will be part of […]
4 Mins Read Betterland Foods has announced its newest animal-free dairy product. Dubbed ‘WOO’, the initial bar has been designed to mimic the successful combination of chocolate, nougat, caramel and peanuts that conventional Snickers bars are known for. The key difference is that Woo contains half the sugar, twice the protein and just 200 calories. It’s also animal […]
4 Mins Read Andrew Zimmern recently threw his chef’s hat in the plant-based protein ring when he joined Next Gen Foods’ TiNDLE brand as an advisor. Elsewhere in news this week, Willicroft teamed up with InnovoPro to launch vegan fondue and new products from No Evil Foods, Unreal Deli, and Hell Pizza launched. Singapore/: Celeb Chef Andrew Zimmerman […]
3 Mins Read Transparency is coming to the chocolate industry via blockchain technology, and it could help to mitigate longstanding human rights and labor issues. Despite commitments from the world’s largest chocolate producers, including Nestlé, Hershey’s, and Mars, unfair wages and human rights labor violations are still commonplace in the cocoa industry. But new blockchain technology from the […]
4 Mins Read It’s been a week loaded with news about vegan cheese products. Primula, Daiya, and PeaTos all announced new products, the latter of them being a fully plant-based take on Cheetos. Elsewhere, Delta added more plant-based items to its in-flight menu courtesy of Impossible and others, and London’s vegan restaurant scene has a couple more mainstays […]
5 Mins Read Startups around the world are now leveraging the power of chickpea protein to craft meat, egg, and dairy alternatives, and the latest to do so is a company out of Israel called CHKP Foods. Elsewhere in vegan news, iconic department store Harrods has new plant-based desserts and IHOP just unveiled a new breakfast sandwich that […]
3 Mins Read The vegan chocolate market is experiencing a 12.3 percent CAGR, expected to reach $1 billion in global sales by 2027. In the last two years, leading chocolate brands including Hershey’s and Cadbury’s have launched vegan chocolate bars as consumers continue to seek out dairy-free options for health, environmental, and ethical reasons. And according to a […]
3 Mins Read Raw vegan desserts are nutritious, 100% natural and made without artificial sugar. This is better for your health, your waistline and the planet. And the incredible part is, the desserts can taste as good as, if not better, than conventional desserts which are loaded with artificial sugar and animal products. My vegan caramel coconut goji […]
8 Mins Read In 2016, Hendrik Reimers founded Fairafric, a social enterprise that brings delicious organic chocolate bars to the world, sourced, produced and wrapped in Ghana. Unlike many Fairtrade certified brands, where the most impact isn’t really delivered to the cooperatives, producers and workers at the start of the value chain, entire value creation of every single […]
4 Mins Read The vegan news never stops! Each week, the Green Queen team dives into the latest developments for plant-based foods around the world so you can catch up on what’s happening across the industry. This week, PepsiCo and Beyond Meat launch a vegan-friendly snack, frozen food giant Tee Yih Jia takes its plant-based brand to Hong Kong, and […]
3 Mins Read Cargill has unveiled a new vegan chocolate line under the ExtraVeganZa brand and products are made using a slew of what the company calls “power ingredients”. The food giant says using sunflower kernel powder and rice syrup make their plant-based chocolate amongst the word’s best, nailing the creaminess that vegan confectionary often lacks. The news […]
3 Mins Read A new report has revealed that Millenial and Gen Z consumers are demanding more plant-based foods—specifically, dairy-free chocolate. The study was carried out by Swiss chocolatier Barry Callebaut, assessing changing buyer attitudes across Europe, the U.S., and Australia. The study polled in excess of 3,200 participants, aged between 18 and 75. 42 percent of respondents […]
4 Mins Read By Anay Mridul It’s time for every vegan to look at Lindt’s chocolate the way its infamously sexy chocolatier does. I’ve spent my fair share of days looking at the red Lindor balls and coaxing them into being plant-based. Lindt has finally obliged by releasing its long-awaited vegan milk chocolate bars in the U.K., so […]
3 Mins Read 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 in the alt-protein and food tech space we decided to create a weekly […]
4 Mins Read 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 in the alt-protein and food tech space we decided to create a weekly […]
3 Mins Read 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 Singapore will soon be introducing the country’s first-ever local tree-to-bar chocolate, thanks to Chef Janice Wong’s latest project. […]
4 Mins Read 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 in the alt-protein and food tech space we decided to create a weekly […]
3 Mins Read There’s now a chocolate factory inspired by Willy Wonka and it’s 100% vegan. Started in a small kitchen in Uppsala, Sweden, Vegan Delights has just opened up its factory doors to welcome visitors into the dreamworld of plant-based chocolate treats. Vegan Delights has made every herbivore’s childhood dreams come true. Located in Sweden, the new […]
2 Mins Read Lindt has announced on World Vegan Day that it will be releasing two new vegan milk chocolate bars in time for Veganuary 2022.
3 Mins Read California Cultured, the startup developing lab-grown chocolate, has secured $4 million in a new funding round to scale its technology.