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Anay is Green Queen's resident news reporter. Originally from India, he worked as a vegan food writer and editor in London, and is now travelling and reporting from across Asia. He's passionate about coffee, plant-based milk, cooking, eating, veganism, food tech, writing about all that, profiling people, and the Oxford comma.

Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

New Culture Says California Approval for Cow-Free Casein Took ‘Longer Than Expected’ As It Gets New Patent

Anay Mridul Jul 8, 2026

Californian precision fermentation startup New Culture has secured another patent for its recombinant casein protein, covering its flagship mozzarella product in the US. Ahead of its expected launch in pizza restaurants in California,…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Novonesis Invests in TurtleTree to Scale Up Cow-Free Lactoferrin for Early Nutrition

Anay Mridul Jul 8, 2026

Danish biotech giant Novonesis has signed an exclusive deal to scale up and commercialise TurtleTree’s precision-fermented lactoferrin protein, following investment in the Singaporean startup. Singapore’s TurtleTree has taken a giant…
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Future Food Quick Bites

Future Food Quick Bites: Oatly Railways, Brain Bar & Cultivated Meat Regulation

Anay Mridul Jul 8, 2026

Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Oatly's partnership with Dutch Railways, Finless Foods' crowdfunding round, and Gosh!'s Mad About Veg campaign. New…
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Funding News

Mosa Meat Gets $1M Loan from Dutch Govt to Expand Cultivated Beef Beyond Europe

Anay Mridul Jul 8, 2026

Dutch cultivated meat pioneer Mosa Meat has received an €875,000 ($1M) loan from state-owned Invest International to navigate regulatory processes and launch into countries across the globe. Seven months after raising €15M ($17.6M at…
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Policy & Regulation

EU Protein Plan Seeks to Boost Plant-Based Foods – Mainly to Feed Livestock, Not Humans

Anay Mridul Jul 8, 2026

The EU has published its long-awaited Protein Plan, acknowledging the importance of plant-based proteins but failing to set concrete targets to increase production for human use. Europe’s policymakers have embraced plant proteins as a…
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Policy & Regulation

Food Experts Ask USDA to Count Pulse Protein Pastas As Meat Alternatives in School Meals

Anay Mridul Jul 8, 2026

A coalition of over 100 food, farming and nutrition groups is calling on the USDA to expand access to pulse-based ingredients to help schools meet its new protein-rich dietary guidelines. Amid the furore around the meat-promoting update…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

The Better Meat Co Rebrands to BMC Ingredients to Reflect Expanded Mycoprotein Focus

Anay Mridul Jul 7, 2026

The Better Meat Co, known for its Rhiza mycoprotein, has changed its name to BMC Ingredients as it expands its ingredient portfolio beyond meat alternatives. In its regulatory dossier submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration, US…
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Alt Protein

EU-Funded Project Calls for Nutrition-Focused Transition to Alternative Proteins

Anay Mridul Jul 7, 2026

In its first policy brief, Horizon Europe-backed project Giant Leaps is urging the EU to accelerate the transition to alternative proteins while preserving the nutritional adequacy of diets. The EU is increasingly facing calls for a…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Quorn’s Mycoprotein Powers New Blended Meat Range for British Restaurants

Anay Mridul Jul 7, 2026

Quorn's foodservice arm has supplied its mycoprotein to William White Meats for the launch of UltiMeat, a lineup of blended meat products for UK restaurants, caterers, and retailers. As blended meat continues to gain steam across…
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Alt Protein

Spain’s Alimentos Sanygran Takes Over Nutrition & Santé’s Plant-Based Food Business

Anay Mridul Jul 7, 2026

Spanish manufacturer Alimentos Sanygran has acquired the plant-based and organic business assets of Nutrition & Santé’s Iberia arm, including a factory and 60-odd employees. Alimentos Sanygran, a Navarra-based manufacturer of…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Nutrition From Water to Take Equity Stake in PhycoFerm to Accelerate Microalgae Strain Development

Anay Mridul Jul 6, 2026

Food tech startup Nutrition From Water has agreed to make an equity investment in Portugal's PhycoFerm, formalising a joint R&D collaboration to accelerate microalgae strain generation. New Zealand-Portuguese startup Nutrition From…
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Future Foods

GEA Pumps $4.6M to Build Out New Alternative Protein Centre in Germany

Anay Mridul Jul 6, 2026

German engineering company GEA is relocating its Application and Technology Center for future food from Hildesheim to Sarstedt with a €4M ($4.6M) investment. Three years after opening its first novel food scale-up facility, Germany’s…
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Policy & Regulation

Japanese Govt Sets Out $6.2B Investment in ’New Foods’ in 2040 Roadmap

Anay Mridul Jul 6, 2026

Japan’s government has laid out a draft public-private investment roadmap across 17 sectors for 2040, totalling $2.3T. As part of this, it’s targeting $6.2B in funding for novel food technologies. Japan has taken a big step in its bid…
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Sugar

Nambawan Spain’s New Plant-Protein-Based Sugar Substitute is Over 13,000 Times Sweeter

Anay Mridul Jul 6, 2026

Nambawan Spain, a spinoff of Nomad Bioscience, has unveiled Thaûma, a thaumatin sweetener produced via plant molecular farming, which is 13,600 times sweeter than sugar. The food tech industry's deepened focus on sugar reduction has led…
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Vegan Dining

Green Star: Michelin Guide to Phase Out Sustainability Award for Restaurants

Anay Mridul Jul 3, 2026

The Michelin Guide is retiring the Green Star by the end of 2026, six years after it first introduced the sustainability accolade, which was criticised by some as a greenwashing enabler. In a major shake-up to its award system, the…
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Policy & Regulation

Dutch Startups Urge Government to Invest €200M via EU Scheme for Alternative Protein Scale-Up

Anay Mridul Jul 3, 2026

Future food businesses in the Netherlands are calling on the government to make at least €200M available via an EU funding mechanism to expand alternative protein production. The Netherlands may already be a food tech leader, but a…
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Alt Protein

Exclusive: Lever Foundation Expands Plant-Based Policy Work to India & Thailand

Anay Mridul Jul 3, 2026

The sustainability non-profit Lever Foundation is expanding its policy initiative to increase plant-based food availability in restaurants, hotels, and retailers in India and Thailand. Lever Foundation, a sustainability non-profit…
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Research & Scientific Studies

Meat-Rich US Dietary Guidelines Could Cause 33% Rise in Food Emissions

Anay Mridul Jul 3, 2026

The US's much-criticised update to the dietary guidelines will likely worsen the food system's environmental impact, thanks to the spotlight on protein and red meat. When the Trump administration unveiled the 2026 update to the US…
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Alt Protein

Livekindly Collective Steps Up M&A Strategy with Greenforce Takeover

Anay Mridul Jul 2, 2026

US holding company Livekindly Collective has signed its latest acquisition deal with the purchase of German plant-based foods startup Greenforce. "This category will keep consolidating, which – given our strong position in the market –…
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Cell-Based News

Parima Validates Cost-Effective Commercial Cultivated Meat Production with Vow Partnership

Anay Mridul Jul 2, 2026

French cultivated meat leader Parima has demonstrated tonne-scale production of its duck at viable cost economics on a 22,000-litre line run by Australia's Vow. As it awaits regulatory approval in Australia, France's Parima has…
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Alt Protein

Heura Enters the Whole-Food Plant-Based Category with Veggie Burgers

Anay Mridul Jul 2, 2026

Spanish plant-based leader Heura has debuted its first non-meat-mimicking products: legume-based veggie burgers that contain twice the protein as the category average. On the back of its first profitable quarter, Barcelona-based Heura…
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