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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.

Climate Change

Using Captured CO₂ In Everyday Products Could Help Fight Climate Change, But Do Consumers Want Them?

Green Queen Team Oct 28, 2022

By: Lucca Henrion, Joe Árvai, Lauren Lutzke & Volker Sick Would you drink carbonated beverages made with carbon dioxide captured from the smokestack of a factory or power plant? How would you feel if that captured carbon dioxide…
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Alt Protein

Forsea Snags $5.2 Million In Seed Funding for Cultivated Eel Meat

Green Queen Team Oct 27, 2022

Israel-based Forsea Foods has closed a $5.2 million Seed funding round led by Target Global with backing from The Kitchen FoodTech Hub, PeakBridge VC, Zora Ventures, FoodHack, and Milk & Honey Ventures. Forsea is growing its…
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Alt Dairy

Will Kraft Consumers Buy Its Vegan ‘Not Cheese’?

Green Queen Team Oct 27, 2022

Beginning next month, Kraft Heinz will roll out its new vegan cheese and mayonnaise in a test run at 30 Giant Eagle stores across Cleveland. It'll expand the products nationally by the end of next year. But are mainstream cheese consumers…
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Alt Protein

Domino’s Australia Brings Impossible Beef to 700 Stores

Green Queen Team Oct 26, 2022

The vegan shift is in full swing Down Under as Domino's adds Impossible Beef to 700 menus across Australia and New Zealand. All pizzas on the Domino's Australia menu can now add Impossible Beef, the chain announced last week. It comes…
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Alt Protein

Spanish Vegan Meat Giant Heura Announces €20 Million Bridge Funding

Green Queen Team Oct 26, 2022

Backed by NBA player Ricky Rubio and footballers Sergi Busquets and Sergi Roberto, Barcelona-based Heura says it's gearing up for what will be one of the biggest Series B funding rounds for the vegan meat sector in 2023. Heura is…
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Alt Protein

The Dutch Government Invests €60M In Cellular Agriculture

Green Queen Team Oct 25, 2022

The cellular agriculture industry receives a big boost with The Netherlands' €60 million investment and additional €25 million in financing. The Dutch government's investment is now the largest government grant in the world into the…
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Alt Dairy

Investments In APAC Agrifood Tech Set a New $5 Billion Record, According To New Report

Green Queen Team Oct 25, 2022

Last year was a banner year for agrifood tech companies across Asia Pacific. And 2022 is following with notable achievements, with more than 360 investment deals in the first half of the year totaling more than $5 billion, according to the…
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Health

FDA to Redefine ‘Healthy’ As Leading CPG Brands Fail to Deliver Better Food

Green Queen Team Oct 24, 2022

The FDA is issuing new guidelines on food products claiming to be 'healthy.' But new research finds a growing number of food companies are failing to make food healthier, despite pledges to do so. Any food claiming to be healthy on…
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Alt Protein

Hoxton Farms Closes $22 Million Series A for Cultivated Animal Fat

Green Queen Team Oct 24, 2022

U.K.-based Hoxton Farms says it has closed a $22 million Series A funding round for its novel cultivated animal fat. The funding follows a $3.6 million Seed round last year. The fresh funding round was led by Collaborative Fund and…
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Alt Protein

Looking To Start a Future Food Startup? Singapore’s Protein Innovation Centre Is The Launchpad You Need

Green Queen Team Oct 24, 2022

With its world-class innovation centre, a Scale It Up Innovation Challenge, and pioneering protein aeration technology, leading machinery maker Bühler is helping global meat substitute startups supercharge their production and scaling…
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Alt Materials

Nourish Ingredients Closes USD$28.6 Million Series A for Microbial Fermentation Fats

Green Queen Team Oct 21, 2022

With backing led by Hong Kong-based billionaire Li Ka Shing's VC Horizon Ventures, Australian food tech startup, Nourish Ingredients, has raised more than AUD$45 million (USD$28.6 million) in a Series A. The microbial…
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Alt Dairy

Dairy in the Desert: Change Foods To Bring the First Precision Fermentation Facility to the UAE

Green Queen Team Oct 21, 2022

Alternative dairy maker Change Foods has signed an agreement with the KEZAD Group to design the first-of-its-kind commercial manufacturing plant in the UAE, helping to solve one of the industry's biggest pain points: the fermentation…
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Alt Protein

India’s ‘Smart’ Protein Sector Poised for Rapid Growth

Green Queen Team Oct 20, 2022

The Good Food Institute India, in partnership with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, held its first in-person Summit in New Delhi last week since the pandemic, taking a look at the smart protein industry and how…
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Alt Dairy

Thailand Just Got Its First Vegan Cheese Factory

Green Queen Team Oct 20, 2022

Beginning early next year, Swees Plant Based Foods Co., a Thai-based dairy-free cheese startup, will begin production in the country's first vegan cheese factory. Expecting to be fully operational in its new facility by 2023, Swees says…
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Fermentation-Based Alt Protein

Synonym Announces $6.3M Pre-Seed Round for Biomanufacturing Development

Green Queen Team Oct 19, 2022

Synonym, a financing and development platform for biomanufacturing, has raised a pre-seed round of $6.3 million, led by Andreessen Horowitz, Giant Ventures, Blue Horizon, Siddhi Capital, FJ Labs and Global Founders Capital among others. …
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Chocolate

Seminal Biosciences Emerges from Stealth Mode With Cacao-Free Cocoa Butter

Green Queen Team Oct 19, 2022

Cocoa butter made without cacao beans? Seminal Biosciences says it's done it in a strategic collaboration with Nucelis. Like a number of staple foods, cacao, the bean that all chocolate comes from, might not survive climate change. The…
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Alt Protein

Umami Meats Expands Its Cultivated Seafood Offerings With Fish Cakes and Filets

Green Queen Team Oct 18, 2022

Leading cultivated meat producer Umami Meats will debut its lab-grown fish cakes and filets, following the debut of its fish ball laksa in August. During Agri-Food Week 2022 held in Singapore later this month, Umami Meats says its…
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Alt Protein

Beyond Meat Cuts 19% of Workforce As Sales Lag

Green Queen Team Oct 18, 2022

In an expected move as sales continue to miss targets, U.S.-based Beyond Meat has announced layoffs affecting 200 employees including their recently suspended COO. The layoffs at Beyond Meat include Deanna Jurgens, chief growth officer…
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Climate Change

Israel’s Grace Breeding Reveals a Breakthrough In Tackling Global Fertilizer Emissions

Green Queen Team Oct 17, 2022

Israel-based Grace Breeding says it can improve grain yields by 18 percent and biomass by 16 percent, reducing the need for synthetic fertilizer and the environmental impact of conventional farming methods. If Grace Breeding's Nitrogen…
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Alt Protein

Faba Is Redefining Vegan Meal Subscription for Singapore

Green Queen Team Oct 17, 2022

The newly launched Singapore-based, Faba, says its vegan meal subscription service delivers the best of plant-based meals classic and new-world. With a pre-seed funding round raised through the Singaporean VC Antler—where the founders…
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Alt Protein

Precision Fermented Egg Protein In Your Cocktail? Say Cheers to Pulp Culture’s ‘Build’

Green Queen Team Oct 14, 2022

A new line of hard juices from Pulp Culture features The Every Company's precision fermentation egg protein in a first for the alcohol and precision fermented egg categories. Following seven years of research and its commercial launch…
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