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5 Mins Read Dairy is big business in New Zealand. The country is the world’s largest dairy exporter and home to dairy giant Fonterra. But as the world wakes up to the realities of livestock farming, from its impact on the environment to the suffering of animals, it’s clear that the current production system needs a change. Enter […]
4 Mins Read This week, Ashton Kutcher invests in 3D meat, Hormel Foods partners with The Better Meat Co. and Oatly’s new vegan ice cream.
4 Mins Read New York startup Kingdom Supercultures secures $25 million in a Series A round to fuel its microbial ingredient library for vegan food.
4 Mins Read Modern Kitchen makes its cream cheese using Perfect Day’s animal-free real dairy proteins developed with precision fermentation technology.
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 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 column that […]
4 Mins Read San Francisco, California-based ingredient company Clara Foods has rebranded as The EVERY Company and unveiled its latest product, an animal-free egg protein food producers can use to boost the nutritional value of their own products. Dubbed EVERY ClearEgg, the product is the first in what EVERY Company says will be “a portfolio of egg proteins” […]
5 Mins Read Californian food tech MeliBio has just unveiled its flagship product, the world’s first-ever real honey made without bees.
4 Mins Read Dairy identical startup Perfect Day is moving closer to going public, announcing it has raised $350 million in a late-stage funding round, bringing its total funding to more than $750 million.
4 Mins Read Ginkgo Bioworks, the Boston-based synbio startup, has gone public on the NYSE and raised $1.6 billion to fuel its cell programming platform.
3 Mins Read Three of Switzerland’s largest food companies, Givaudan, Bühler and Migros, are now joining forces to build a new cell-based meat factory. Located in Zurich, the Cultured Food Innovation Hub will house a pilot production plant, as well as R&D facilities dedicated to the creation of novel cell-based and precision fermentation protein products. Three Swiss food […]
4 Mins Read Change Foods, the precision fermentation dairy startup born in Australia, has just moved into BioCube San Jose, the Silicon Valley life science incubator and former home of Impossible Foods. Speaking to Green Queen Media, the food tech’s CMO Irina Gerry says the move to “plant our feet in California” will help it “build and scale […]
4 Mins Read Formo, the precision fermentation cheese company based in Berlin, has just closed a record-breaking $50 million Series A round, representing the largest to date within the European food tech industry. The startup says that the funds will boost R&D to expand its product portfolio, with animal-free mozzarella and ricotta the first on its list. Formo […]
4 Mins Read Australian startup All G Foods just bagged $16 million in seed funding ahead of its vegan meat launch. Now, it’s developing animal-free dairy.
4 Mins Read These startups are disrupting the way we produce milk produts with their game-changing microbial biofermented dairy technologies.
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 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 column that […]
2 Mins Read Geltor’s vegan collagen is featured in new skin care products from Orora. The HumaColl21 has been clinically proven to boost skin health.
3 Mins Read Compound Foods, a San Francisco startup brewing coffee without any beans, has just secured $4.5 million in its seed round. The biotech has developed coffee that tastes, looks and smells and even the same caffeine dose as its conventional counterpart, but is far more sustainable—all thanks to microbial fermentation technology. Fermentation is the rising star […]
4 Mins Read General Mills is gearing up to enter the precision fermentation alt-protein industry, signalling the move with a new brand, Renegade Creamery. While the food giant has not confirmed the move, Renegade describes its product as ”creating milk proteins without the milk”, suggesting that the animal-free dairy is on the cards—and the brand’s first product appears […]
4 Mins Read Aussie food techs Vow and Nourish are teaming up to merge cell-based meat and precision fermentation fat—a new type of hybrid alt-protein.
4 Mins Read This week in Alt Food, a Michelin-starred chef gets into cultured meat, Chipotle debuts plant-based chorizo, and a new vegan butter hits store shelves.
5 Mins Read Worldwide, we consume around 7 million tons of chocolate every year. But as with other sectors of the food industry like meat and dairy, mainstream chocolate is under a lot more scrutiny these days for unsustainable production methods and unsavory labor practices. In response, a number of startups have surfaced with alternative ways to satisfy […]