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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

Patent Filings for Sustainable Proteins Continue to Fall, Shows New Study

Anay Mridul Oct 22, 2025

Amid the slowdown in sales of plant-based meat and investment in alternative proteins, innovation is losing a little momentum too, according to a new patent analysis. Patent filings for plant-based and cultivated meat are mirroring the…
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Future Food Quick Bites

Future Food Quick Bites: Just Chicken, Tesco & Crowdfunding Galore

Anay Mridul Oct 22, 2025

Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Eat Just's vegan chicken, Beyond Meat's Walmart expansion, and Tesco's collab with La Vie. New products and launches …
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Alt Dairy

Bel, Standing Ovation Turn Whey Waste Into Recombinant Casein at Industrial Scale

Anay Mridul Oct 21, 2025

French dairy giant Bel Group and precision fermentation firm Standing Ovation have completed an industrial-scale production run of casein by upcycling dairy industry waste. In a global first, two French companies have developed casein –…
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Cell-Based News

Parima Set to Receive FSANZ Approval for Cultivated Duck Under Gourmey Brand by August 2026

Anay Mridul Oct 21, 2025

Food Standards Australia and New Zealand has formally accepted a dossier by French firm Parima to sell cultivated duck products, which is expected to be approved next year. Parima, a cultivated meat company formed last week, could be…
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Funding News

Fungi Funding: Matr Foods Bags $23M to Scale Up Clean-Label Mycelium Meat

Anay Mridul Oct 21, 2025

Danish food tech startup Matr Foods has raised €20M ($23M) in Series A funding for its mycelium meat alternatives, adding to the €20M debt funding it received from the EU in 2024. Copenhagen-based Matr Foods has secured fresh funding to…
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Alt Protein

Beyond Meat Launches Test Kitchen to Give At-Home Cooks a Taste of Its New Products

Anay Mridul Oct 21, 2025

Plant-based giant Beyond Meat has kicked off the Beyond Test Kitchen, releasing its clean-label Ground products and whole-cut mycelium steak to quick success. As it works to turn around its sales and eliminate its debt, US plant-based…
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Policy & Regulation

How A Former USDA Stalwart & White House Advisor is Leading the Plant-Based Fight

Anay Mridul Oct 20, 2025

Sanah Baig, who has years of experience working for the US government, explains why she chose to join the Plant Based Foods Institute, and her thoughts on the MAHA and livestock lobby. Few people know about agricultural policy in the US…
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Fashion

How Knitup is Shedding Fashion Industry Waste with A Custom Knitwear Platform

Anay Mridul Oct 20, 2025

Through its on-demand manufacturing platform, Knitup is helping clothing companies curb waste with data-driven design and rapid production timelines. The future of fashion is less. Or at least that's the promise of Knitup, a…
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Climate Change

Top Meat & Dairy Companies Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Saudi Arabia: Study

Anay Mridul Oct 20, 2025

Combined emissions from the world's top meat and dairy producers are on par with those of the biggest fossil fuel companies, and higher than those of Saudi Arabia. This year, experts have warned that the world's 1.5°C warming limit may…
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Alt Protein

Spanish Sustainable Protein Startups See 550% Jump in Funding: Report

Anay Mridul Oct 17, 2025

Spain's alternative protein ecosystem is thriving, with investments rising by nearly 550% in 2024. Now, experts are calling for public funding and a national plant-based action plan. Plant-based, microbial, and cell-cultured protein…
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Alt Protein

New Partnership Aims to Beef Up South Korea’s Future Food Sector

Anay Mridul Oct 17, 2025

GFI APAC and the World FoodTech Council have signed a new partnership to accelerate innovation in South Korea's alternative protein ecosystem. From dairy-free casein and cultivated meat powders to fermented proteins derived from grape…
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Cell-Based News

GFI Buys SciFi Foods’s Cell Lines, Releases Them to Advance Cultivated Meat Research

Anay Mridul Oct 17, 2025

The Good Food Institute has acquired cell lines and growth media from defunct startup SciFi Foods and partnered with Tufts University to make them available for cultivated meat researchers. In a major move to save the future food…
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Alt Dairy

As Some Back Out & Others Double Down, Hybrid Dairy Remains A Mystery

Anay Mridul Oct 17, 2025

Dutch supermarket Albert Heijn has launched a blended yoghurt combining dairy with fava beans, just as Kerry has discontinued its hybrid Smug Dairy range in the UK. While blended meat is entering supermarkets in Europe and the US with…
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Alt Protein

In Texas, Central Market is Selling Beef Blended with Mushrooms

Anay Mridul Oct 16, 2025

Fable Food Co has launched its omnivore-favourite blended meat range at Central Market stores in Texas, the US's largest beef-producing state, and to great success. Texas is the leading cattle producer in the US, with beef being its…
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Alt Dairy

The Latest Sustainability Trend in Plant-Based Milk? Regenerative Farming

Anay Mridul Oct 16, 2025

British oat milk maker Minor Figures has partnered with Wildfarmed to launch its first barista-style product with regeneratively grown oats. Oat milk is already way more planet-friendly than dairy, generating 71% fewer greenhouse gases…
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Zero Waste

Factory Farming is the Leading Cause of Food Waste That Could Feed Two Billion People

Anay Mridul Oct 16, 2025

A new report suggests that growing human-grade crops to feed animals in factory farms wastes more food than any other sector, threatening nutrition security and climate targets. Around a third of all food produced is wasted or lost, and…
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Alt Dairy

Italian Vegan Cheese Startup Brings Mozzarella, Stracciatella & More to France

Anay Mridul Oct 15, 2025

Italian non-dairy cheese maker Dreamfarm has expanded into supermarkets in France, bringing its suite of innovations to the Paris area. Parisians can get a taste of classic Italian cheeses made without the cow, as Dreamfarm brings its…
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Cell-Based News

Cultivated Consolidation: France’s Gourmey Acquires Vital Meat to Form Parima

Anay Mridul Oct 15, 2025

France's Gourmey has snapped up Vital Meat to form Parima, aiming to become the first cultivated protein company to get regulatory approval for two species. In the latest consolidation move for alternative proteins, Paris-based Gourmey…
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Chocolate

Mondelēz-Backed Startup Unveils Cell-Based Cocoa Butter for Chocolate Industry

Anay Mridul Oct 15, 2025

Israeli food tech startup Celleste Bio has developed a cell-based chocolate-grade cocoa butter at an EU-backed innovation event in Brussels. Celleste Bio has unveiled a first-of-a-kind innovation to address the climate change-induced…
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Future Food Quick Bites

Future Food Quick Bites: Redefine Steak, Blended Proteins & Beyond Meat

Anay Mridul Oct 15, 2025

Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Redefine Meat's Asda rollout, Purezza's new online vegan store, and Beyond Meat's debt swap. New products and launches …
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Green Business

This New Singapore Summit Aims to Close Asia-Pacific’s Food Tech Funding Gap

Anay Mridul Oct 15, 2025

Asian investment platform Further will host a new summit in Singapore to unlock capital in the region's agrifood tech sector, in partnership with VC firm AgFunder. Asia-Pacific produces half of the world's food, but only attracts a…
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