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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.

Alt Protein

Reduce, Remix, Replace: German Govt Must Support Alternative Proteins, Say Scientists

Anay Mridul Jul 23, 2025

Scientists advising the German government have called for greater support of alternative proteins in a new report, recommending over 50 policy measures. Coining the 'three Rs' of protein diversification is a new report by Germany's…
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Future Foods

GEA Opens $20M Centre to Scale Up Alternative Proteins in the US

Anay Mridul Jul 22, 2025

German engineering firm GEA has opened its New Food Application and Technology Center in the US with a $20M investment to scale up alternative protein production. To boost alternative proteins like animal-free dairy and cultivated meat,…
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Alt Protein

Gas Protein Startup NovoNutrients to Sell Assets, Citing Investment Challenges

Anay Mridul Jul 22, 2025

Californian gas fermentation firm NovoNutrients, which makes proteins from gases, is selling its assets a year after raising $18M in funding. The "shifting investment climate" around food tech has pushed another alternative protein…
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Funding News

Estonian Govt Pumps $1.1M in Äio to Scale Up Yeast-Based Palm Oil Alternative for Cosmetics

Anay Mridul Jul 22, 2025

Estonian startup Äio has secured €1M ($1.1M) in a government grant to speed up the development of its yeast-derived sustainable fat alternative, specifically for use in cosmetics. With the EU set to ban the import of products featuring…
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Climate Change

New IPES Report Calls for Fossil Fuel Phaseout From Food Industry, Misses Key Solutions

Anay Mridul Jul 22, 2025

A new report argues that we need to get fossil fuels out of our food system. It doesn't go far enough – to truly combat climate change, we must limit livestock-linked land use and support alternative proteins. Globally, 40% of all…
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Food & Nutrition

Brightseed’s AI Tool Uncovers 530 Health-Promoting Compounds in California Almonds

Anay Mridul Jul 21, 2025

In a partnership with the Almond Board of California, AI nutrient discovery firm Brightseed has uncovered 530 phytochemicals in the nuts, including six seen for the first time. Almonds may be way more beneficial than previously thought,…
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Health

Should Vegans Pay Lower Health Insurance Premiums?

Anay Mridul Jul 21, 2025

Plant-based diets are linked to better health outcomes, so should vegans be entitled to better insurance rates too? A frequent criticism of vegan diets is that they're too expensive. Meat and dairy alternatives tend to be costlier than…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Researchers Recreate Key Milk Protein for Game-Changing Animal-Free Cheese

Anay Mridul Jul 21, 2025

Scientists in Denmark have found the solution to a key issue holding back precision-fermented casein proteins, paving the way for more realistic animal-free cheese. With climate change threatening dairy yields amid growing demand for…
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Climate Change

Could Trump Deliver ‘Rare Win’ for Meat & the Climate with US Beef Exports?

Anay Mridul Jul 18, 2025

Increasing US exports of beef can help lower the industry's emissions across the globe, but protectionist barriers and tariffs must be overcome first. By displacing China's imports of South American beef with its own, the US could help…
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Chocolate

Climate Shocks Push World’s Largest Chocolate Supplier to Explore Cell-Based Cocoa

Anay Mridul Jul 18, 2025

Barry Callebaut, the leading supplier of chocolate to the food industry, has signed a partnership to explore cell culture technology for cocoa alternatives. With the cocoa industry keenly feeling the effects of climate change on their…
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Cell-Based News

Is China Leading the Cultivated Meat Innovation Race? A New Patent Analysis Argues the Case

Anay Mridul Jul 18, 2025

A leader in green energy and electric vehicles, China is spearheading the protein transition too, with more cultivated meat patent applicants than any other nation. Could China be winning the alternative protein innovation race? …
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Alt Protein

EU Commission Proposes Banning Meat-Like Terms on Plant-Based Labels

Anay Mridul Jul 17, 2025

The EU Commission has reignited the plant-based meat labelling debate by proposing a ban on the use of 29 animal-related terms for vegan packaging labels. When the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that no member state can prohibit…
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Alt Dairy

Alpro, Oatly React as UK Govt Advisors Call Plant-Based Milk ‘Not Equivalent’ to Dairy

Anay Mridul Jul 17, 2025

Nutritionists advising the UK government say only fortified plant-based milks are acceptable alternatives to dairy, and call 'growing up' drinks for children unnecessary. While non-dairy alternatives are now a common fixture in UK…
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Climate Change

Crops, Cows, and Climate: How Agriculture Today is Putting Tomorrow’s Food at Risk

Anay Mridul Jul 17, 2025

Climate change is ravaging crop yields and dairy production, while meat consumption is contaminating freshwater, according to new research. The food system and climate change are deeply interconnected. Agriculture is responsible for a…
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Research & Scientific Studies

People Who Care About Animals & the Planet Still Eat Meat. Why?

Anay Mridul Jul 17, 2025

Many people say they care about the planet and animals, yet still eat meat. A new study explains why. Are you a meat-eater who loves the environment and the animals? You're not alone. In the UK, nearly half of the respondents to a 2020…
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Seafood

Steakholder Foods’s 3D-Printed Plant-Based Seafood Makes Retail Debut in Israel

Anay Mridul Jul 16, 2025

3D printing food tech startup Steakholder Foods has debuted two fish-free seafood products in grocery stores in Israel. Israeli 3D-printed meat maker Steakholder Foods has commercialised its first plant-based seafood products in the…
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Alt Protein

UK Food Strategy: Alternative Proteins Can Fill £14B Productivity Gap

Anay Mridul Jul 16, 2025

The UK government's new food strategy recognises how its R&D and manufacturing prowess can help develop alternative protein products and plug a £14B productivity gap. The UK has just unveiled its new food strategy to create a…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: GLP-1 Drink, Plant Points & Cultivated Meat in Space

Anay Mridul Jul 16, 2025

Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers a new GLP-1 alternative drink, Canada's pea protein bet, and the European Space Agency's cultivated meat project. New…
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Health

Americans Fail to Identify Healthy Processed Foods from Harmful Ones, Finds Study

Anay Mridul Jul 16, 2025

Two in five Americans believe all processed foods are unhealthy, despite evidence showing otherwise, according to a new poll. Over the last couple of years, as the ultra-processed food (UPF) backlash has raged on, a wave of…
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Future Foods

With New Factory in Sight, Solar Foods Signs Latest Deal to Bring Solein Protein to Market

Anay Mridul Jul 15, 2025

Finland's Solar Foods has signed a letter of intent to commercialise up to 1,650 tonnes of its Solein gas protein, with plans to have its new factory fully operational by 2030. Amid its ongoing efforts to launch in the US, Finnish gas…
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Funding News

Australia’s Eclipse Ingredients Nabs $4.6M for Recombinant Breast Milk Protein

Anay Mridul Jul 15, 2025

Australian precision fermentation startup Eclipse Ingredients has emerged from stealth with A$7M ($4.6M) in funding to scale up its production of human lactoferrin. Aiming to make "impossible-to-source" health ingredients widely…
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