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4 Mins Read Californian cell-cultured seafood startup Finless Foods has announced its expansion into the plant-based seafood category, debuting a new vegan tuna alternative as the “next step” in their company’s mission to protect the oceans. It comes as part of the food tech’s “brand refresh” to better reflect and communicate its impact goals with consumers. Finless Foods […]
6 Mins Read Just over a year after launching its groundbreaking vegan “spam” analogue OmniPork Luncheon, Green Monday is expanding its OmniFoods range with a brand new line of plant-based seafood alternatives. Announced today (June 8) on World Oceans Day during an invite-only global media press conference, the new OmniSeafood range marks the Hong Kong-based food tech’s first […]
4 Mins Read Plant-based seafood brand Good Catch Foods is widening its net of products, launching a new line-up of breaded fish alternatives. Made from its proprietary six-legume blend of plant proteins, the new vegan products include breaded fish sticks, fish fillets and crab cakes, and will be available across U.S. retailers in June. Good Catch Foods has […]
3 Mins Read Revo Foods, the Vienna-based startup behind 3D printed plant-based salmon, has raised €1.5 million (~US$1.78 million) in its first investment round. The fresh capital will enable the startup to double down on R&D and speed up the market launch of its 3D printed vegan seafood products. Revo Foods, formerly known as Legendary Vish, has closed […]
4 Mins Read Gathered Foods, the parent company of plant-based tuna brand Good Catch Foods, has reeled in US$26.35 million in a bridge financing round. The fresh capital will go towards expanding Good Catch’s retail footprint globally and launching more plant-based seafood products on the market to meet rising consumer demand. Gathered Foods, the makers behind the Good […]
4 Mins Read Triton Algae Innovations, a startup leveraging freshwater algae species, is preparing to launch its plant-based algae ingredients and its first retail product – a tuna analogue – to show consumers the potential of the underwater crop in alternative proteins. The single-celled algae species that Triton uses, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, can express plant proteins, and the startup […]
4 Mins Read Plant-based seafood maker Ocean Hugger Foods has announced its return, partnering up with Bangkok-based Nove Foods to roll out its products globally in 2021. The company, which was forced to shut down its operations due to the coronavirus pandemic last year, will work with Nove Foods, whose distribution spans 30 countries, to reenter the alternative […]
4 Mins Read Revo Foods, the Vienna-based startup that has recently rebranded from Legendary Vish, has revealed that it will soon be debuting its 3D printed plant-based salmon in a tasting event, a first for a product of its kind. It comes ahead of the startup’s planned commercial foodservice launch of its first plant-based seafood products on the […]
4 Mins Read Thai Union, one of the biggest seafood producers globally, has revealed its plans to launch plant-based shrimp in 2021 as it pivots in response to demand from consumers. The company made its first foray into plant-based seafood last year, and says it will be continually developing more fish-free alternatives, which will primarily cater to foodservice […]
3 Mins Read Plant-based seafood startup Novish has secured funding from QSR Platform SCA (QSRP), a major fast food platform that lists the Burger King franchise in four European markets and French tacos chain O’Tacos among its brands. The strategic investment will accelerate the roll-out of Novish’s line of plant-based fish products across QSRP subsidiaries NORDSEE, a European […]
3 Mins Read Schouten, the Dutch company that has been specialising in developing plant-based proteins since the 1990s, has recently debuted its latest product: vegan tuna. It marks the first time the firm has entered the plant-based seafood alternatives space, which is expected to undergo major growth as more companies tap into fish-free innovation. Schouten has recently launched […]
11 Mins Read 2020 was a challenging and unexpected year, and most of the world was brought to its knees by the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s been almost 12 months of bad, sad news and traumatic moments. But for the alt protein industry, 2020 has been an incredible year! While the pandemic made life far more difficult for billions, […]
3 Mins Read Editor’s Note: It’s the worst time in history for our oceans. They are filled with plastic, covered in dead zones caused by human pollution, dominated by hugely unethical fishing supply chains… Sealife doesn’t stand a chance and by now, most of us will have heard the dire prediction that we will run out of fish […]
3 Mins Read Gathered Foods, the parent company of plant-based seafood food tech Good Catch Foods, has just announced the opening of its new 42,500 square foot facility in the U.S. state of Ohio. The new manufacturing plant will produce the brand’s vegan fish-free tuna, crab cakes, fish cakes and fish burgers and will position the brand for […]
4 Mins Read A team of students, known as Legendary Vish, are now developing 3D printed plant-based salmon. After working on 3D printing processes for medical technologies as a part of their doctorate projects, the group began modifying the technology to print plant-based proteins and binders in a structured seafood fillet format, something that most vegan seafood alternatives […]
3 Mins Read California-based seafood producer Bumble Bee Foods has announced a US$40 million commitment over the next five years to promote sustainability and plant-based seafood alternatives. Through a dedicated Accelerator Fund, the company will also reduce plastic packaging and help clean up oceans by retrieving waste. It follows the company’s partnership earlier this year with vegan tuna […]
3 Mins Read Gathered Foods, the makers of the plant-based tuna brand Good Catch, has just announced an impressive line-up of celebrities that have recently invested in the company. Among them are Woody Harrelson, Shailene Woodley, Paris Hilton and Lance Bass. The celebrity investments follow the startup’s recent successful funding round that drew in big names including multinational […]
4 Mins Read In this age of overfishing the current state of the world’s oceans, it’s hard to know what fish are okay to eat these days. With a range of issues concerning seafood consumption like mercury, radiation exposure, not to mention the ecological and environmental impact from aquaculture (or fish farming), commercial fish stocks are rapidly declining. According to […]