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3 Mins Read India’s first and leading plant-based egg startup, Evo Foods, has recently welcomed veteran vegan founder Ryan Bethencourt as its first angel investor and advisor alongside US-Asia impact venture firm Big Idea Ventures. The food tech uses food science and plant biochemistry to develop a vegan egg alternative, which they hope will catalyse much needed disruption […]
4 Mins Read A new Alliance for Meat, Poultry & Seafood Innovation comprised of 5 cultivated food tech companies has been established to work with governmental bodies to determine regulation and labelling policies for cell-based products. This marks a major step for the cultivated industry to bring their products to market amid the global need for more alternative […]
3 Mins Read Eat JUST, the food tech startup behind plant-based JUST Egg and widely known as JUST, has just announced that they will be launching a new frozen version available for retail this April. The announcement follows the company’s rapid sales growth globally and its aggressive international expansion into Asia – the region with a massive market […]
4 Mins Read Beijing-based plant-based meat startup Zhenmeat is now seeking US$ 2 million in funding from global investors in order to capture the growing demand for plant-based meat alternatives in China. This follows the latest news from Silicon Valley-based Impossible Foods, who debuted two new plant-based pork products at CES in Vegas earlier this month in a […]
16 Mins Read Bruce Friedrich, the executive director and co-founder of the Good Food Institute (GFI) is responsible for some of the most iconic plant-based startups that have disrupted the global understanding and perception of vegan meat. A former animal activist who has been at the helm of show-stopping animal welfare campaigns with PETA, Bruce is now at […]
5 Mins Read It’s the perfect storm of market factors for a China protein revolution- a pork shortage crisis spurred on by the African Swine Fever epidemic, a trade war that has driven up meat prices, a younger generation motivated by environmental and health incentives and a growing demand for quality protein- and Silicon Valley #foodtech mainstays Impossible […]
5 Mins Read The Impossible Burger by Silicon Valley startup Impossible Foods has just made its formal launch in mainland China this week at Shanghai’s China International Import Exposition. Throughout the expo event from 5th November – 10th November, Impossible Foods will be serving almost 50,000 samples of its plant-based burgers to visitors. What with the sheer size […]
3 Mins Read According to intergovernmental agency World Organisation for Animal Health, the spread of the African swine fever (ASF) epidemic will wipe out a quarter of the world’s pig population. Since last year, Asia has experienced mass escalation of ASF, with the world’s largest pig producer – China – bearing the brunt of the deaths while the […]
3 Mins Read Malaysian-Hong Kong food tech startup Phuture Foods will launch a vegan pork meat alternative in Hong Kong, Singapore and other Asian destinations in the coming months. The company is eyeing the Asian market especially given the recent epidemic of African swine fever, which is causing a major pork shortage as millions of diseased pigs across […]
4 Mins Read The country that eats more pork than any other could be looking at a pork-less future. As China battles the African swine fever that has wiped out millions of pigs domestically and across the wider Asian region, the alternative meat movement has taken off. A plethora of plant-based and cellular meat startups, including both local […]
2 Mins Read Silicon Valley foodtech startup, JUST, has announced plans to roll out their innovative vegan egg product in mainland China through a multi-channel approach in the coming months. JUST Egg, made from mung beans and free of antibiotics and cholesterol, will make its way onto retail shelves, e-commerce and foodservice. Specialty supermarket retailers City Super, Alibaba-owned […]
4 Mins Read Not sure why everyone you know is suddenly going meatless? Unless you live in a cave, you will have noticed that there are more and more headlines about people going vegan and about the negative environmental and health consequences of animal agriculture. But there’s so much information out there, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Which […]
3 Mins Read Another world first for Hong Kong in the plant-based dining realm: innovation-forward pizza chain unveiled two brand new menu offerings at their just opened Lee Tung Avenue location: the JUST Pizza (HK$138), dressed with tomato sauce then topped with crumbled JUST Egg, crumbled vegan sausage, button mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, vegan mozzarella and fresh rosemary and the JUST […]