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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.

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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Alt Fats

Palm Oil Alternatives Are on the Rise – Will Consumers Bite?

Anay Mridul Jul 15, 2025

As sustainable alternatives to palm oil enter the mainstream, a new survey shows that consumers view them more favourably than the conventional tropical fat. Would you eat a fat made from fermented yeast? That's a question one…
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Policy & Regulation

EU Parliament Votes to Make Biotech A Strategic Priority, Calls for An Investment Boost

Anay Mridul Jul 15, 2025

EU politicians have voted in favour of advancing the bloc's biomanufacturing and biotech prowess to promote sustainability, public health, and food security. It's a big month for biotechnology in the EU. The European Commission just…
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Vegan

Spaniards Wants to Cut Back on Meat, But ‘Bold Policy’ Action on Plant-Based Food Needed

Anay Mridul Jul 14, 2025

While a majority of Spaniards are reducing meat or open to doing so, the plant-based industry needs a "level playing field" to help them shift their eating habits. Meat is becoming unfashionable in Spain, but plant-based alternatives…
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Health

No Amount of Processed Meat is ‘Safe’ for Health, Finds Major Review

Anay Mridul Jul 14, 2025

Even small amounts of processed meats like hot dogs and bacon are associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, a new study has found. While Americans celebrated overconsumption at Nathan's Famous's annual hot…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Aldi Suisse Unveils Clean-Label Mycoprotein Chicken Filet at Price Parity with Meat

Anay Mridul Jul 14, 2025

Discount retailer Aldi Suisse has launched a cost-competitive meat-free chicken filet under its MyVay brand, using Planetary's Libre mycoprotein. Visitors to Aldi Suisse's stores can now buy a vegetarian chicken filet with four…
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Alt Materials

Mercedes-Benz Embraces Cow-Free Leather with Modern Meadow Partnership

Anay Mridul Jul 14, 2025

Animal-free leather startup Modern Meadow has signed a deal with auto giant Mercedes-Benz to develop an alternative material for its technology programme. Mercedes-Benz has become the latest carmaker to attempt to ditch conventional…
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Coffee

With Its Newest Product, Beanless Coffee Startup Prefer Takes A Leaf Out of the Blended Meat Playbook

Anay Mridul Jul 11, 2025

Singaporean food tech firm Prefer has unveiled a bean-free soluble powder positioned as a "coffee extender", in an approach reminiscent of blended meat. When it comes to decarbonising the food system, working with – not against – the…
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Future Foods

Global Survey: 75% of Consumers Still Interested in Plant-Based Meat & Dairy

Anay Mridul Jul 11, 2025

A majority of consumers globally remain interested in plant-based meat and dairy alternatives, while millennials are keenest on blended proteins. Despite the doom-and-gloom coverage of the plant-based sector, three-quarters of global…
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Alt Dairy

Butter or Crock? Dairy Industry Asks FDA to Crack Down on Plant-Based Alternative

Anay Mridul Jul 11, 2025

Milk and butter producers are calling on the US food regulator to investigate Country Crock's use of 'butter' on the packaging for its dairy-free alternative. Having already been at the receiving end of several lawsuits over the years,…
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