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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.

Funding News

5 Minutes with A Future Food VC: Alwyn Capital’s Heather Courtney

Anay Mridul Feb 20, 2025

In our new 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. Heather Courtney is a General Partner…
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Cell-Based News

Bühler & Israeli Cultivated Meat Co Joins Forces To Solve Industry Bioreactor Problem

Anay Mridul Feb 19, 2025

Israel's Ever After Foods has partnered with Swiss manufacturing giant Bühler Group to produce cultivated meat at a mass scale with much smaller equipment. Extending its sustainable protein push, Bühler Group has teamed up with an…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Dubai Chocolate, Impossible BrewDog & Non-Dairy Liqueurs

Anay Mridul Feb 19, 2025

Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers NotCo's Dubai chocolate, BrewDog's collaboration with Impossible Foods, and new products at Expo West. New products and…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

AI Startup Gets $15.4M from EU Fund For Sustainable Proteins Made From Food Waste

Anay Mridul Feb 19, 2025

Spanish AI-powered fermentation startup MOA Foodtech has received €14.8M ($15.4M) from the European Innovation Council to transform agricultural waste into high-value ingredients. Turning waste into functional foods using artificial…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

German Poultry Giant Backs Mycelium Meat Startup in €3M Funding Round

Anay Mridul Feb 19, 2025

German food tech startup Kynda has raised €3M in seed funding to expand production of its mycoprotein-based meat made from upcycled food waste. Fuelling its drive to make sustainable protein from food waste, German startup Kynda has…
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Alt Protein

Gen Alpha Embraces Alternative Proteins – But Will Kids Actually Eat Them?

Anay Mridul Feb 19, 2025

The world's most populous generation, Gen Alpha, thinks future foods like plant-based and cultivated meat are "inevitable" – though first impressions matter. By the end of the decade, Gen Alpha will have a spending power worth $12…
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Alt Protein

Sustainable Shawarma: The Brands Pioneering The Gulf’s Plant-Based Meat Industry

Anay Mridul Feb 18, 2025

As more Brits, Europeans and Americans cool on meat alternatives, one region is making gains on the protein transition – can homegrown brands in the Gulf cater to local demand for plant-based meat? While some consumers in the West are…
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Alt Protein

$2 Cultivated Pork? Fork & Good on First Sales, Funding and the Future of FDA

Anay Mridul Feb 18, 2025

Niya Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Fork & Good, on what separates the startup from other cultivated meat players, earning its first revenue, and its regulatory plans. It was just only in January 2024 that, in an Irish pub in Davos,…
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Vegan

Most Consumers Hungry for Plant-Based Food, But High Prices Keep Them Away

Anay Mridul Feb 18, 2025

Interest in eating more plant-based food is growing across the Global South, with high prices the biggest obstacle to increased consumption, according to a new study. More than two-thirds (68%) of consumers across the world want to eat…
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Green Business

Blackbird Foods: Ahimsa Companies Continues Vegan Acquisition Spree with Frozen Pizza Maker

Anay Mridul Feb 17, 2025

New York-based Blackbird Foods has been acquired by Ahimsa Companies, a holding company with several sustainable protein startups in its roster. Frozen plant-based food maker Blackbird Foods has been acquired by Ahimsa Companies, an…
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Future Foods

Chicken-Free Moment: Eat Just Sees Sales Boom Amidst ‘Great American Egg Shortage’

Anay Mridul Feb 17, 2025

Eat Just CEO Josh Tetrick says soaring egg prices have driven up demand for its mung-bean-derived Just Egg, with sales hikes unlike what the firm has seen in the past. Eggs have never been more expensive in the US. According to consumer…
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Beauty

This Bio-Based Moisturiser Uses Cellulose & Fermentation to Take on Fossil Fuels in Skincare

Anay Mridul Feb 17, 2025

With demand for clean beauty on the rise, two startups have co-developed a fossil-free moisturiser that benefits the skin and the planet. Fossil fuels are all over our skins – more than 70% of cosmetics contain petroleum-based…
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Cell-Based News

Aussie Government Invests in Cultivated Meat Startup with A$100K Grant

Anay Mridul Feb 17, 2025

Magic Valley, a Melbourne-based producer of cultivated meat, has received A$100,000 in government funding to scale up production and drive down costs. Aussie food tech startup Magic Valley has secured A$100,000 ($62,800) from the…
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Future Foods

RFK Jr Confirmation: Food Tech Winners & Losers

Anay Mridul Feb 14, 2025

Donald Trump's pick for Health & Human Services Secretary has been confirmed. From cultivated meat to methane vaccines, how will food tech fare over the next four years? It took a while, but Donald Trump got his man. Robert F…
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Sugar

GLP-1 Boom Fuels Sugar Shift As Oobli Lands $18M For Sweet Proteins

Anay Mridul Feb 14, 2025

US food tech firm Oobli has raised $18M and partnered with global ingredients supplier Ingredion to co-develop better-for-you sugar alternatives with sweet proteins. As Americans turn their backs on sugar in the Ozempic era, one startup…
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Green Business

Sustainability NGO Gets 175+ Food Companies to Commit to Responsible Sourcing in Asia

Anay Mridul Feb 14, 2025

More than 175 food businesses across Asia have committed to improving their sourcing policies in light of sustainability and animal welfare, supported by a US non-profit. A total of 83 food companies committed to implementing improved…
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Funding News

5 Minutes with A Future Food VC: Mudcake’s Anna Ottosson

Anay Mridul Feb 13, 2025

In our new 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. Anna Ottosson is a Founding Partner at…
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Alt Protein

Allplants: Deliciously Ella Founders Rescue Vegan Ready-Meal Brand in Anti-UPF Push

Anay Mridul Feb 13, 2025

Months after securing an exit for Deliciously Ella, founders Ella and Matthew Mills have acquired vegan ready-meal leader Allplants out of administration under their revamped Plants brand. Less than three months after it entered…
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Consumer Trends & Insights

The 50/50 Solution: Could Blended Proteins Win Over Meat Lovers?

Anay Mridul Feb 13, 2025

Consumers are cutting back on meat due to health concerns, but plant-based alternatives fail to meet their taste expectations – a new study says blended proteins could offer a balance. Flavour, nutrition and affordability have long been…
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Alt Dairy

This AI-Led Startup is Growing Dairy Proteins in Potatoes

Anay Mridul Feb 12, 2025

Israel's Finally Foods has announced its first field trial for potatoes containing casein, less than a year after the molecular farming startup launched. In what it describes as "record time", AI-driven molecular farming startup Finally…
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Cell-Based News

Cultivated Pork Maker Goes Beyond Meat with Animal-Free Leather Collab

Anay Mridul Feb 12, 2025

Dutch cultivated pork pioneer Meatable broadens its horizons beyond food through a partnership with animal-free leather maker Pelagen. As it awaits the go-ahead from regulators in Singapore, cultivated meat startup Meatable already has…
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