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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.

Future Food Quick Bites

Future Food Quick Bites: Oatly Coffees, Barry Callebaut & Listeria Settlement

Anay Mridul Nov 26, 2025

Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Oatly's iced coffees, La Vie and Cathedral City's collab, and Danone and Walmart's listeria settlement. New products and…
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UPFs

WHO Accused of Bias with Expert Committee Developing Guidelines for Ultra-Processed Food

Anay Mridul Nov 26, 2025

The World Health Organization has opened up the public consultation process as it develops a guideline for ultra-processed foods amidst criticisms of bias in its selection of experts. As ultra-processed foods (UPFs) spark debate about…
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Alt Protein

Exclusive: This Cultivated Meat Marketplace Sells Inputs & Equipment for Manufacturers

Anay Mridul Nov 25, 2025

Cultigen Group, which opened an online cultivated meat shop for consumers this year, has now launched a B2B marketplace for companies. To make it easier for the cellular agriculture industry to access equipment and inputs for…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Americans Will Be Able To Buy Protein Powder Made From Air in 2026

Anay Mridul Nov 25, 2025

Solar Foods has announced the latest partnership for its gas-fermented Solein protein, which will form the base of Pothos protein powders to be launched in early 2026. Six months after introducing a prototype protein powder made from…
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Cell-Based News

Germany’s Bluu Goes Beyond Cultivated Seafood with Move Into Health & Beauty

Anay Mridul Nov 25, 2025

German startup Bluu has expanded its salmon cell culture technology to skincare and health innovations, adding to its existing cultivated seafood line. Hamburg-based Bluu has taken a "salmon leap of opportunities" with the expansion of…
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Climate Change

COP30 Digest, Vol 4: Everything You Need to Know in Food & Climate News Today

Anay Mridul Nov 24, 2025

Welcome to the final edition of Green Queen’s #COP30 Digest. Here, our editorial team curates the must-reads, the must-bookmarks and the must-knows from around the web to help you ‘skim the overwhelm’. Catch up: VOLUME 1 |…
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Funding News

SuperMeat Raises $3.5M to Launch Cultivated Chicken in Europe

Anay Mridul Nov 24, 2025

Israeli food tech startup SuperMeat has secured $3.5M in an ongoing funding round to support the commercialisation of its cultivated meat in Europe. A year after announcing it could produce cultivated meat at price parity with…
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Cell-Based News

The World’s First Cultivated Meat Farm is Now Open in the Netherlands

Anay Mridul Nov 22, 2025

RespectFarms has launched a pilot farm to produce cultivated meat in the Netherlands, with Corné van Leeuwen becoming the first farmer to receive EU funding for these proteins. Backed by public funding from the EU and the provincial…
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Funding News

Chromologics Raises $8M to Bring Fermented Red Dye to US & EU Food Companies

Anay Mridul Nov 21, 2025

Danish precision fermentation startup Chromologics has secured €7M ($8M) in funding to commercialise its natural food-grade alternative to synthetic red dye. Amid the rush to phase out synthetic dyes from food products, one startup has…
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Alt Dairy

US Senate Passes Bill to Expand Access to Non-Dairy Milk in School Lunches

Anay Mridul Nov 21, 2025

The US Senate has unanimously passed the FISCAL Act, which makes it easier for students to access plant-based milk in school meals. In a major step forward for dietary inclusivity, the US Senate has voted in favour of a bipartisan bill…
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Alt Protein

TiNDLE Foods to Sell US Business to Focus on Private-Label Products in Europe

Anay Mridul Nov 21, 2025

Plant-based meat company TiNDLE Foods is pivoting its business model to divest its US operations and focus on private-label products in Europe. Months after rolling out its vegan chicken in hundreds of Kroger stores, marking a ninefold…
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Alt Protein

Eat Just Introduces Better-Than-Chicken Plant-Based Meat to 3,000 Walmart Stores

Anay Mridul Nov 20, 2025

Californian food tech pioneer Eat Just's vegan chicken, called Just Meat, has outperformed conventional versions, and is now available in nearly 4,000 stores across the US. Eat Just, the maker of the vegan Just Egg and the Good Meat…
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Alt Protein

‘Sharp Focus & Consolidation’: How The Livekindly Collective’s Plant-Based Meat Became Profitable

Anay Mridul Nov 20, 2025

Livekindly Collective, the company behind brands like Oumph, Like and Fry's, achieved profitability in September, countering the plant-based meat slowdown. In September, Livekindly Collective CEO David Suarez revealed that the…
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Alt Dairy

Melt Organic Butter Owner Acquires Miyoko’s Creamery; Founder Asks For Her Name Back

Anay Mridul Nov 20, 2025

Prosperity Organic Foods has emerged as the winning bidder for plant-based dairy company Miyoko's Creamery. Its namesake founder is asking the new owner to rebrand in the hope of getting back the rights to her name. Following a dramatic…
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Future Food Quick Bites

Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Protein Buns, Korean Cultivated Meat & Functional Mushrooms

Anay Mridul Nov 19, 2025

Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Crafty Counter's protein buns, Too Good To Go's Whole Foods partnership, and Space F's cultivated meat tasting. New…
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Cell-Based News

Hungarian Parliament Votes to Ban Cultivated Meat, Despite EU Criticism & Legal Uncertainties

Anay Mridul Nov 19, 2025

Lawmakers in Hungary have overwhelmingly voted in favour of banning cultivated meat, even though the EU Commission has called the move "unjustified" and experts have questioned its legality. After nearly two years of attempts, the…
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Alt Dairy

Trump Signs FDA Funding Package to Boost Regulatory Path for Dairy-Free Baby Formula

Anay Mridul Nov 19, 2025

The US government's 2026 budget, signed into law by President Donald Trump, includes language directing the FDA to streamline regulatory pathways for non-dairy, non-soy infant formula. Following the longest government shutdown in…
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Climate Change

COP30 Digest, Vol 3: Everything You Need to Know in Food & Climate News Today

Anay Mridul Nov 18, 2025

Welcome to #COP30. In our Green Queen COP30 Digest, our editorial team curates the must-reads, the must-bookmarks and the must-knows from around the web to help you ‘skim the overwhelm’. Catch up: VOLUME 1 | VOLUME 2 Headlines…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Exclusive: MOA Foodtech’s AI Fermentation Service Turns Food Waste Into Sustainable Ingredients

Anay Mridul Nov 18, 2025

Spanish startup MOA Foodtech has unveiled the MOA Box, a turkey service for manufacturers to create high-value ingredients from starch byproducts through fermentation and AI. To enable food companies to produce future-facing ingredients…
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Policy & Regulation

Tyson Foods to Stop Making ‘Climate-Smart’ Beef & Net-Zero Claims After Lawsuit

Anay Mridul Nov 18, 2025

US meat behemoth Tyson Foods has settled a greenwashing lawsuit, agreeing to stop labelling its beef products as climate-friendly or claiming it will reach net zero by 2050. A year after getting sued for marketing its beef as…
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UPFs

What Does the Non-UPF Verified Standard Mean for Plant-Based Meat & Dairy?

Anay Mridul Nov 18, 2025

The Non-GMO Project has published the first version of its Non-UPF Verified Standard to help companies label foods that are not ultra-processed. What makes a food non-ultra-processed? It's a question the folks at the Non-GMO Project…
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