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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.

Vegan

Thai Startup Creates Plant-Based Pork from Local Coconut Water

Anay Mridul Sep 11, 2024

Backed by the Thai government, Sangtuptim Inter Co., a manufacturer of coconut-based products, has developed a plant-based pork analogue from coconut water. A Thai company known for its coconut vermicelli has created plant-based meat…
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Funding News

Food Tech Funding ‘Bouncing Back’, But Investor Doubts on Alternative Proteins Still Persist

Anay Mridul Sep 10, 2024

As inflation eases, food tech investments are showing signs of recovery, but companies within the alternative protein ecosystem are treading different paths. While food tech venture capital dipped by 48% in 2023 (reaching $15.3B),…
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Fashion

Hong Kong Designer Wins Top Prize at 2024 Redress Design Award Winners

Anay Mridul Sep 10, 2024

Hong Kong-based charity Redress has announced the results of the 2024 Redress Design Award, with the top prize winner getting a chance to work with Tommy Hilfiger. Redress, the Asia-focused charity tackling the fashion industry's…
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Alt Protein

Formo Stretches Budget with $61M Series B, Rolls Out Animal-Free Koji Cheese in Supermarkets

Anay Mridul Sep 10, 2024

German food tech startup Formo has closed a $61M Series B fundraise and launched animal-free cheeses made from microbial fermentation in supermarkets. If you're in Germany or Austria, you can now walk to one of 2,000+ Rewe, Billa and…
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Climate Change

Algenie Emerges From Stealth to Turn Algae Into Sustainable Fuels & ‘Carbon-Positive’ Plastic

Anay Mridul Sep 10, 2024

Australian startup Algenie has come out of stealth with early funding for its photobioreactors that can create sustainable fuels, plastics and feed from algae. Armed with helix-shaped photobioreactors that can dramatically reduce the…
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Australia

One in Five Australians are ‘Meat Reducers’, With Interest in Plant-Based Analogues Driven by Health

Anay Mridul Sep 9, 2024

More than two in five Australians are reducing meat or don't eat it at all, with health a major consumption driver. But taste and price remain key challenges for plant-based meats. Australians are cutting back on meat due to health and…
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Green Business

Days After Settling Impossible Foods Lawsuit, Hemami Maker Motif FoodWorks is Shutting Down

Anay Mridul Sep 9, 2024

Motif FoodWorks, the Boston-based startup known for its Hemami ingredient for meat analogues, is shutting down, days after it settled a long-running IP dispute with Impossible Foods. Last week, Motif FoodWorks announced it had sold off…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Beyond Meat: Why Alt-Meat Maker is Going Beyond Plant-Based to Embrace Mycelium for Clean-Label Steak

Anay Mridul Sep 9, 2024

Beyond Meat will soon launch a fermentation-derived mycelium steak to address consumer demand for clean-label products, with a likely launch through a health-focused restaurant chain. One of the world's most famous meat analogue makers…
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Climate Change

Carbonaught Attracts Funding to Turn Rocks Into Carbon-Removing Fertiliser

Anay Mridul Sep 9, 2024

Australian startup Carbonaught has received financing from Better Bite Ventures for its low-emission agriculture tech, which sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen and increases production through basalt. Carbonaught, an Australian agtech…
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Alt Protein

TiNDLE Foods CEO Timo Recker: There Isn’t A Lack of Interest – the Demand Just Wasn’t As Strong As Predicted

Anay Mridul Sep 6, 2024

Timo Recker, CEO of plant-based startup TiNDLE Foods, talks evolving consumer attitudes, sales and funding declines, the importance of taste, and his admiration for Beyond Meat. It's been nine months since Timo Recker took over the…
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Health

St Gallen: Swiss Canton Bans Meat & Milk Sales After Finding High PFAS Levels

Anay Mridul Sep 6, 2024

A Swiss canton has banned the sale of contaminated meat and dairy with high levels of 'forever chemicals', calling for intervention on a national level too. St Gallen, the canton in northeastern Switzerland, has implemented a ban on…
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Alt Protein

Impossible Foods Takes Motif Foodworks’ Heme Business in IP Lawsuit Settlement

Anay Mridul Sep 6, 2024

Impossible Foods has settled its patent infringement dispute with Motif Foodworks, taking over the latter's heme business. Plant-based meat maker Impossible Foods and food tech company Motif Foodworks, a spinoff of Boston-based Ginkgo…
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Fashion

Lab-Grown Cotton Startup Galy Closes $33M Series B Round Led by Bill Gates

Anay Mridul Sep 5, 2024

Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures has led a $33M Series B investment for US startup Galy, which makes lab-grown cotton. Boston-based Galy has secured $33M in an oversubscribed Series B investment round led by Bill Gates'…
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Alt Protein

Bezos Earth Fund Opens Third Alternative Protein Centre at National University of Singapore

Anay Mridul Sep 5, 2024

The Bezos Earth Fund has inaugurated its third Centre for Sustainable Protein at the National University of Singapore, labelled as an "absolute powerhouse" of alternative proteins. Biomass fermentation, microalgae innovations, and…
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Policy & Regulation

Farmer Groups Say We Need to Eat Less Meat, Ask EU Commission to Create Plant-Based Action Plan

Anay Mridul Sep 5, 2024

An EU-funded report by agrifood lobbies has recognised the need to eat less meat and shift towards more sustainable diets, asking the EU Commission to create a plant-based action plan by 2026. We're eating too much meat, and we need to…
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Future Foods

Future Food Quick Bites: Smoked Garlic Butter, Plant-Based Tikkas & A Mushroom Farm

Anay Mridul Sep 4, 2024

In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers a first-of-its-kind alt-butter, the popularity of Silk plant-based milk,…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

21st.Bio Earns Self-Affirmed GRAS Status in US for Precision-Fermented Whey Protein

Anay Mridul Sep 4, 2024

Danish bioproduction company 21st.Bio has secured self-determined GRAS status for its animal-free beta-lactoglobulin in the US, paving the way for market entry. Labelling itself as a "launchpad for proteins produced with precision…
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Vegan

Nutella Plant-Based: Everything You Need to Know As Ferrero Launches Vegan Version of Beloved Spread in Europe

Anay Mridul Sep 4, 2024

Months after first announcing the move, Ferrero has at last launched a vegan version of Nutella, starting with Italy, Belgium and France. Milk powder is out in the vegan iteration of the world's most popular chocolate spread, with…
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Vegan Dining

Shake Shack Debuts Veggie Shack Burger Made From 11 Vegetables in Hong Kong & Macau

Anay Mridul Sep 4, 2024

US fast-food chain Shake Shack has added the Veggie Shack burger to the menu at all Hong Kong and Macau stores for a limited time. The Veggie Shack is coming to Hong Kong and Macau, as Shake Shack continues to roll out the whole-food…
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Future Foods

How An Ancient Mould Can Turn Food Waste Into Michelin-Starred Dishes

Anay Mridul Sep 3, 2024

Researchers at UC Berkeley are betting on fungi strain Neurospora intermedia to turn food destined for the bins into haute cuisine. Who knew mould could be the secret to saving food waste? In a new research paper, that's what…
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Cell-Based News

Japan’s IntegriCulture Announces Five Collaborative Projects to Advance Cultivated Meat

Anay Mridul Sep 3, 2024

Japanese startup IntergriCulture has announced five new projects under its CulNet Consortium, with its CEO emphasising the importance of knowledge-sharing. If we're to commercialise cultivated meat on a mass scale at affordable prices,…
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