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We INFORM. We INSPIRE. We EMPOWER. Founded by serial entrepreneur Sonalie Figueiras in 2011, Green Queen is an award-winning sustainability & impact media platform advocating for social & environmental change in Asia. Our mission is to shift consumer behaviour through our authentic, original and ground-breaking content.

Alt Protein

Plant-Based Pet Food Brand The Pack Closes a Packed £835,000 Seed Round

Green Queen Team Dec 22, 2022

Plant-based dog food brand The Pack has closed an £835,000 Seed funding round. The Seed funding round for the U.K. based pet food brand was led by Scelta Mycofriends B.V., Veg Capital, Kale United, Akoleo and Silicon Valley VC Accel, as…
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Alt Protein

New Asian Protein Alliance to Scale Environmentally Friendly Food

Green Queen Team Dec 22, 2022

Bringing the focus to alternative protein in Japan and Singapore, Next Meats, Dr. Foods, and ImpacFat announced they are joining forces on the development of Next Fish and other sustainable offerings. The three companies are leveraging…
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Alt Protein

Future Food Technology Could Give Nature Back Up To 80% of The World’s Farmland

Green Queen Team Dec 21, 2022

By: Chris D Thomas, Jack Hatfield and Katie Noble Here’s the basic problem for conservation at a global level: food production, biodiversity and carbon storage in ecosystems are competing for the same land. As humans demand more food,…
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Alt Dairy

How A Stainless Steel ‘Cow’ Made Cheese for Those Vegan Cowboys

Green Queen Team Dec 21, 2022

Those Vegan Cowboys, the spinoff brand from the founders of the Dutch plant-based meat brand Vegetarian Butcher, has launched its first precision fermentation cheese. Jaap Korteweg and Niko Koffeman put vegan meat on the map with the…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

EvodiaBio Raises $6.4 Million for Its Precision Fermentation Aromas for Beer

Green Queen Team Dec 21, 2022

Danish aroma company EvodiaBio has secured $6.4 million (45 million Danish kroner) for its sustainable aroma production for food and beverages. The new funding for the 18-month-old EvodiaBio builds on an earlier $1.3 million raise with…
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Alt Dairy

Nestlé Swaps Out Cow’s Milk for Perfect Day’s Precision Fermentation in Cowabunga

Green Queen Team Dec 20, 2022

After teasing the partnership earlier this year, Nestlé's first milk made with Perfect Day's animal-free whey has landed in select Safeway stores in California. Nestlé has a new franchise in its expansive global brand catalog:…
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Alt Protein

Microbial Fermentation Comes to the Alt Sugar Market In Oobli Chocolate Bars

Green Queen Team Dec 20, 2022

Oobli, the California-based food tech company focused on sweet protein via microbial fermentation, has launched its first product. Following its rebrand from Joywell Foods, Oobli's first product is a sweet-protein-powered line of…
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Singapore

Singapore’s Seafood Giant Ha Li Fa Launches Plant-Based Seafood Brand Eat, Plant, Love

Green Queen Team Dec 19, 2022

Singapore is getting its first plant-based mee pok in a partnership between the new Ha Li Fa brand, Eat, Plant, Love, and Bib Gourmand LiXin Teochew Fishball Noodles. A popular Chinese noodle dish, mee pok is one of many Asian dishes…
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Vegan Dining

IKEA Ups Its Sustainability Efforts With a Plant-Based Food Hall

Green Queen Team Dec 19, 2022

A new food hall concept from the company behind the Swedish retail giant spotlights local, plant-based cuisine with a focus on regenerative agriculture. Swedish home furnishings giant IKEA has not been shy about its sustainability…
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Alt Dairy

Which Protein Do Consumers Spend the Most On? It’s Not Meat and Dairy, Study Finds

Green Queen Team Dec 16, 2022

A recent study by the Plant Based Foods Institute and leading supermarket chain Kroger, found that consumers are changing their purchasing habits. Consumer shopping habits are always in flux but the recent report found that's especially…
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Alt Protein

Hyfé’s Sustainable Mycelium Protein Scales Up Ahead of Schedule

Green Queen Team Dec 16, 2022

Climate-tech company Hyfé says it has scaled up the production capacity of its mycelium protein to 400L pilot bioreactors. On a mission to unlock low-cost production for sustainable products, the Chicago-based Hyfé is utilizing waste…
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Alt Protein

The First LCA on Cultivated Beef Shows 88% Fewer GHGs Than Conventional

Green Queen Team Dec 15, 2022

SciFi Foods has conducted the world's first Life Cycle Analysis on cultivated beef and the findings show significant benefits for the planet. Researchers at The Ohio State University (OSU) conducted the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) on…
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Alt Protein

Float Foods Brings Its OnlyEg to Hong Kong Meal Kits In DayDayCook Exclusive

Green Queen Team Dec 14, 2022

Singapore's Float Foods, the plant-based food tech startup known for its egg replacement OnlyEg, has announced a partnership with DayDayCook, a direct-to-consumer meal solutions platform. Working with DayDayCook will bring the OnlyEg…
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Alt Protein

Another Foods Launches India’s First Plant-Based Food-Service-Ready Chicken

Green Queen Team Dec 14, 2022

Mumbai-based Another Foods says its new plant-based chicken is made specifically for food service to support the demands across the hospitality and restaurant industries. Another Foods says it worked with hospitality and food service…
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Alt Protein

Australia Gets Its First Plant-Based Meat Ingredient Facility

Green Queen Team Dec 13, 2022

With $1 million in assistance from the Australian Government's Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre, Harvest B has opened the first facility dedicated to plant-based meat ingredients in Australia. The new Sydney-based facility will be…
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Alt Dairy

The Jeff Bezos-Backed Vegan Unicorn NotCo Raises $70 Million to Scale Up B2B Tech

Green Queen Team Dec 13, 2022

NotCo, the Jeff Bezos-backed Chilean vegan food tech company working with a novel AI tool to develop plant-based milk, meat, and chicken, has announced the closing of a $70 million Series D1. With funding led by Princeville Capital and…
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Alt Protein

Black Sheep Foods Raise a $12.3 Million Series A for Plant-Based Lamb

Green Queen Team Dec 12, 2022

Black Sheep Foods, the Bay Area plant-based food tech company working to create vegan lamb meat with proprietary patent-pending technology has closed a $12.3 million Series A funding round. Black Sheep's funding was led by Unovis,…
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Alt Dairy

Malk Organics Closes a $9 Million Series B

Green Queen Team Dec 12, 2022

Malk Organics, the Texas-based organic dairy alternative brand, announced a $9 million Series B funding round led by Benvolio Group and Rotor Capital. Malk was launched in 2015 by August Vega after she discovered her one-year-old son…
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Alt Protein

Cultivated Meat Just Landed In a Butcher Shop for the First Time

Green Queen Team Dec 9, 2022

Eat Just's Good Meat is now available through a Singaporean butcher shop, Huber's Butchery. Eat Just's cultivated Good Meat is coming to the display case and bistro menu of Huber's Butchery in Singapore, beginning early next year. The…
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Alt Protein

Believer to Open the World’s Largest Cultivated Meat Factory in the Heart of Hog Country

Green Queen Team Dec 9, 2022

A new cultivated meat factory slated to open in North Carolina will be the world's largest. In what Israel-based Believer Meats says is a watershed moment for the cultivated meat industry, its forthcoming 200,000-square-foot factory,…
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Alt Protein

Swiss Court Sides With Planted Foods on Use of ‘Meaty’ Labeling Terminology

Green Queen Team Dec 8, 2022

The Zurich Administrative Court has sided with Swiss plant-based protein manufacturer Planted Foods and its use of terminology including "chicken" and "BBQ." "The use of animal names on the packaging of plant-based foods made from pea…
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