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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 Materials

Clean Body, Clean Planet: Colgate-Palmolive Taps Palm Oil Alternative for Fermented Soap Bar

Anay Mridul Mar 31, 2025

Colgate-Palmolive has teamed up with NoPalm Ingredients to make a sustainable soap bar from a fermentation-derived palm oil alternative. Soon, you could be using soap made from food waste and fermentation. The climate kicker? It's made…
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Opinion

Meatable CEO: Uniting Innovation with Tradition is the Way Forward for Sustainable Meat Production

Anay Mridul Mar 28, 2025

Jeff Tripician is the CEO of Meatable, a Dutch food tech startup working on cultivated pork. A former meat industry exec, he argues that a collaborative approach is the only recipe for success. As global demand for meat rises, one thing…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

This Animal-Free Dairy Startup Launched A Line of Functional Whey Proteins in the US

Anay Mridul Mar 28, 2025

French precision fermentation startup Bon Vivant has rebranded to Verley and rolled out a range of functional animal-free whey proteins. Bon Vivant, the animal-free dairy company hailing from Lyon, has introduced a new brand identity…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Ecovative Raises $11M After Outselling Meat Alternatives with Mycelium-Based MyBacon

Anay Mridul Mar 28, 2025

New York firm Ecovative has secured $11M to supercharge the expansion of its mycelium-based MyBacon, which it claims is the fastest-selling plant-based breakfast item in the natural channel. Mycelium innovator Ecovative has raised $11M…
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Policy & Regulation

Chinese Lawmakers Promote Alternative Protein Policies During Annual Political Summit

Anay Mridul Mar 28, 2025

Chinese government officials have called for a boost to the national biotech capacity and the introduction of a novel food framework at its Two Sessions summit. Chinese lawmakers have issued calls to speed up the development of its…
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Cell-Based News

Can Hoxton Farms’s Cultivated Fat Satisfy Asia’s Appetite for Pork?

Anay Mridul Mar 27, 2025

British cultivated meat player Hoxton Farms has partnered with Japan's Sumitomo Corporation to bring its pork fat ingredient to Asia. For cultivated meat, fat is all the rage right now. In Europe, Mosa Meat has filed for regulatory…
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Future Foods

5 Minutes with A Future Food VC: Paulig Incubator’s Erika Hombert

Anay Mridul Mar 27, 2025

In our interview series, we quiz future food investors about the solutions that excite them the most, their favourite climate-forward restaurant, and what they look for in successful founders. Erika Hombert is a Senior Investment…
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Health

Au Revoir, Soja?: French Food Safety Agency Calls for Ban on Soy Products in Schools

Anay Mridul Mar 27, 2025

France's food safety agency has recommended a ban on soy-based products in mass catering, raising concerns that have been long debunked and go against scientific consensus. After attempting to ban cultivated meat, France could be coming…
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Vegan Dining

Odd Burger: Canadian Vegan Chain Nixes Plans to Open 60 US Outlets Amid Geopolitical Tensions

Anay Mridul Mar 27, 2025

Canada's Odd Burger has halted its US expansion plan amid "increased political tensions", just days after it announced a plan to course through the tariff war between the two neighbours. Heightened political tension between Canada and…
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Climate Change

Grass-Fed Beef A Deceptive Climate ‘Solution’ That Misleads Consumers, Confirms New Study

Anay Mridul Mar 26, 2025

Grass-fed beef is as bad for the planet as the industrial version, and significantly more carbon-intensive than plant proteins, a new study has found. You may be eating grass-fed beef because you've been told it's better for the…
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Cell-Based News

BioCraft Pet Nutrition Gets EU Registration to Sell Cultivated Mouse Meat for Dogs & Cats

Anay Mridul Mar 26, 2025

Food tech firm BioCraft Pet Nutrition has received registration from Austrian authorities to sell its cultivated meat ingredient in pet food applications across the EU. After a string of developments last year, 2025 is shaping up to be…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: Impossible Sliders, Major League Baseball & Cat Jewellery

Anay Mridul Mar 26, 2025

Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Impossible Foods's beef slider rollout, the New York Mets's new vegan sandwich, and Grubby's vegan meal kits for B Corp…
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Alt Dairy

EatKinda Takes Its Cauliflower Ice Cream to the US Amid Scaling Struggles in New Zealand

Anay Mridul Mar 26, 2025

New Zealand-based cauliflower ice cream startup EatKinda is moving operations away from its home country to focus on the US amid scaling challenges. EatKinda, the New Zealand startup making dairy-free ice cream from cauliflower, is…
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Future Foods

NotCo’s AI is Revolutionising the Food Industry – And Big Brands Are Eating It Up

Anay Mridul Mar 25, 2025

Chile's NotCo pioneered the use of AI in food. Its co-founders explain why they're doubling down on the B2B business, which is growing by triple digits. Karim Pichara has been working with artificial intelligence (AI) his whole life. “I…
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Cell-Based News

The Biased Science That Fuelled Italian Farmers’ Anti-Cultivated-Meat March

Anay Mridul Mar 25, 2025

One of the loudest opponents of cultivated meat, Coldiretti rallied thousands of farmers to demand the EU assess novel foods like new drugs. It cited concerns from scientists, but half of them are members of the organisation. It was…
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Alt Dairy

Why Alpro UK Is Spending Millions to Switch to 100% British Oats for Plant-Based Milk

Anay Mridul Mar 25, 2025

Danone-owned plant-based dairy giant Alpro has announced that it is moving to a 100% local supply for its oat milk lineup in the UK, powered by a multimillion-pound investment to expand its capacity. The UK's leading plant-based milk…
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Health

Ultra-Processed or Not, Ditching Meat for Plant-Based Foods Can Help You Lose Weight: Study

Anay Mridul Mar 25, 2025

A new study shows that swapping meat with plant-based alternatives – no matter how processed – can lead to significant weight loss. The backlash against ultra-processed foods (UPFs) has cast a dark cloud over plant-based meat…
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Health

In Thailand, Eating Plants Could Prevent 100,000 Deaths from the Burning Season

Anay Mridul Mar 24, 2025

Replacing half of meat and seafood production with plant proteins could save 100,000 lives lost from air pollution in Thailand, a new study has found. Thailand's annual crop-burning season causes air pollution lethal enough to…
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Alt Protein

Hooked Foods CEO: Underwhelming Sales of Plant-Based Leaders Has ‘Scared Investors’

Anay Mridul Mar 24, 2025

Tom Johansson, co-founder and CEO of Swedish vegan meat maker Hooked Foods, says underperforming big players have "scared" investors interested in the plant-based sector. The slow sales progress of leading plant-based companies in…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Israeli Microalgae Startup Raises $5M Seed Extension to ‘Take Fermentation Out of the Dark’

Anay Mridul Mar 24, 2025

Brevel, an Israeli startup using light and fermentation to create microalgae-based ingredients, has secured $5M in a seed extension round. Israeli food tech player Brevel has extended its seed funding pot by $5M, taking total investment…
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Cell-Based News

What Does Cultivated Meat Actually Taste Like? We Asked People Who’ve Tried the Real Thing

Anay Mridul Mar 24, 2025

With a number of cultivated meat startups hosting public tastings of their products, three taste testers take us behind the scenes of what it's like to bite into the future from cultivated fois gras to cell-cultured salmon. It was a…
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