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4 Mins Read Shiok Meats has just unveiled the world’s first cell-based lobster meat. In an exclusive tasting event, the Singapore cultivated seafood food tech showcased its newly developed crustacean-free product in a range of dishes alongside their cell-based shrimp, marking yet another milestone towards the company’s ambitions to commercialise its cultured crustaceans by 2022. Singapore-based cultivated seafood […]
4 Mins Read Hong Kong-based Green Monday has announced that it has launched its famous OmniPork Luncheon, the world’s first plant-based version of Spam, and OmniPork Strips to Singapore. It will be available on menus of partnering restaurants and at several major retail locations across the city-state, ahead of Green Monday’s plans to open its first Singapore café […]
4 Mins Read Earlier this month, the Global Grad Show kicked off in Dubai for the sixth year to showcase 100 graduate projects from around the world that are designed to bring solutions to some of the biggest environmental and socio-economic issues, from chronic illnesses to waste management. This year, which drew entries from more than 60 countries, […]
3 Mins Read Legacy vegan and vegetarian meat alternative brand Quorn has just expanded its home delivery service in Singapore with a range of meatless dim sum items, as the brand positions itself in the fast-growing Asian plant-based market. It initially launched its delivery service with Singapore’s largest grocery e-commerce RedMart in September this year amid the coronavirus […]
4 Mins Read Oatly, the world’s most famous oat milk brand, has recently landed in Singapore as part of its ambitions to grow its presence across Asia, a region where the dairy market is ripe for disruption. Now available across the city-state’s largest supermarket chains and e-commerce platforms, as well as all Starbucks locations island-wide, the Blackstone-backed plant-based […]
2 Mins Read Singapore’s first vegan online shop, Everyday Vegan, is going to open its first-ever retail storefront as demand for plant-based foods in the city continues to grow. Launching officially on November 1 to coincide with World Vegan Day, the new all-vegan supermarket will offer Singapore residents a range of plant-based products, from meat alternatives to dairy-free […]
3 Mins Read Eat Just, the San Francisco-based food tech that pioneered the plant-based egg, has just announced a new partnership with a consortium led by investment management firm Proterra to build a new production facility in Singapore. It marks Eat Just’s first Asia production site and the largest of its kind in Singapore, which will help the […]
3 Mins Read TurtleTree Labs, the world’s first startup to develop lab-grown milk with the same composition as real dairy milk without any cows, has just won the grand prize amongst the 175,000 companies competing at the Entrepreneurship World Cup (EWS). The news comes on the heels of the startup’s Liberty Challenge 2020 win and fresh Series A […]
6 Mins Read During an exclusive virtual media conference held today (October 20), which featured the food tech’s senior executives attended by Green Queen, Impossible Foods officially announced the first retail launch of its plant-based products in Asia. From this week onwards, consumers in Hong Kong and Singapore will be able to purchase plant-based Impossible Beef in major […]
5 Mins Read Next Gen, a Singapore-based food tech, has just announced its official launch after closing a US$2.2 million seed funding round. The startup has already established its R&D centre in the city-state, where it plans to develop its line of plant-based proteins with a production capacity of supplying at least 9,000 restaurants. After launching in Singapore, […]
4 Mins Read Singapore-based cultivated shrimp startup Shiok Meats has just announced the closing of a US$12.6 million Series A funding round. The food tech says that the capital will go towards building the first commercial pilot plant to produce cell-based minced shrimp in 2022, taking the company yet another step forward to become the world’s first to […]
3 Mins Read Nine urban farms in Singapore have been awarded close to S$40 million (US$29.3 million) under the government’s latest grant focused on boosting the city-state’s local food production and food security. Most of the urban farms are focused on growing fresh vegetables and fruits using tech-forward solutions such as AI solutions. The money was awarded by […]
2 Mins Read Global coffee chain Starbucks has announced that it is adding new plant-based items on its menus across Asia this month, including products made with leading plant-based brands such as Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat and Oatly. The Seattle-based chain says that the move is part of the company’s strategy to expand plant-based offerings around the world […]
3 Mins Read More than 50,000 job opportunities are to be created over the next decade in Singapore, as the city-state pursues sustainable development and a green coronavirus recovery. These projections were announced by Singapore’s Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE) at the end of last month. Following up on President Halimah Yacob’s address at the opening […]
14 Mins Read abillionveg, the popular social platform for vegan food reviews and recommendations, is on a mission to help drive the plant-based movement for a sustainable planet and convert a billion people to a more eco lifestyle. The young startup is one of the most well-funded in the Asia impact scene, closing a pre-Series-A US$ 3 million […]
2 Mins Read Singapore based plant-based review and discovery app abillionveg has closed a pre-Series A funding round totalling US$3 million with injections by Hong Kong’s Nan Fung Group, CloudKitchens and York Capital. In addition, Twitter’s head of Asia-Pacific, Maya Hari, has joined as an investor and advisor to the company. The startup also announced new partnerships with […]
7 Mins Read Founded just last year, barePack is a Singaporean startup that offers a convenient solution to make takeaway orders more sustainable and fight the mounting waste crisis caused by disposables. It is touted as the “world’s first unlimited returnable container subscription platform”, which allows its members to connect with reusable-friendly vendors for discounts and rewards. We […]
3 Mins Read Alchemy Foodtech recently revealed that it is eyeing China as its next potential market opportunity after launching its first product, Alchemy Fibre, in its home base in Singapore. The product, which comes in powder form, lowers the glycemic index (GI) and increases the fibre content of staple foods such as white rice, representing a game-changing […]
3 Mins Read The Body Shop Singapore has just transformed one of its new retail stores at the Ion Orchard shopping centre into an “activist workshop”. At the store, customers can explore cruelty-free and sustainable products while also participating in recycling old items and use repurposed materials to create upcycled wrapping paper for gifts. It marks the brand’s […]
2 Mins Read Earlier this month, a new mobile app encouraging users to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle launched in Singapore. Called susGain, users can earn points, receive a cashback discount when spending at sustainable businesses, which is then matched with a donation of equal value to the users’ charity of choice. SusGain members can also collect points […]
2 Mins Read Singapore’s central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has recently hired Jeanne Stampe as green finance resource lead. Stampe is a former WWF head of sustainable finance in Asia. The move is yet another indication of the direction that the traditionally climate conservative financial industry in Asia is heading towards to improve its sustainability […]