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Julienne Bruno Raises £5 Million for Its Dairy-Free Cheese Made for Food Lovers
London-based food tech startup Julienne Bruno has raised £5 million in a seed round, bringing its total funding to more than £6 million for its dairy-free cheese made from soy milk.
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Perfect Day’s Precision Fermentation Animal-Free Milk Comes to Asia In an Industry First
Perfect Day's Very Dairy is the first precision fermentation milk available in Asian supermarkets.
Very Dairy, the animal-free milk brand launched by California-based food tech company Perfect Day, will be the first milk of its kind!-->!-->!-->…
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Oatly Restructures Amid Supply Chain Issues and Reduced Sales Projections
Swedish oat milk giant Oatly is restructuring its manufacturing and reducing headcount in an effort to reduce costs.
Oatly, the darling of the dairy-free sector, has announced plans to address supply chain issues and overhead following!-->!-->!-->…
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Unilever Calls Dairy ‘Problematic’ As It Explores Ice Cream Made From Microbes
Your favorite Unilever-owned ice cream products could soon be made from microbes. The company is exploring precision fermentation as a means to address its portfolio's climate impact.
Multinational food giant Unilever says it is!-->!-->!-->…
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Wilk’s Cell-Based Milk Fat Yogurt Gets Third-Party Stamp of Approval
Wilk, the publicly traded Israel-based food tech company developing cell-based human and animal milk, says it has developed the world's first yogurt made from cell cultures.
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Food Tech Company Me& Has Developed the First Fortified Human Breast Milk
Australia's first cell-based milk startup, Me&, says it is developing cell-based breast milk just like a human mother would.
Me&'s cellular and molecular technology captures the inbuilt program in breast tissue cells allowing!-->!-->!-->…
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Bel Group Will Bring Precision Fermentation to Laughing Cow, Babybel, and Boursin
Following its investment in Standing Ovation earlier this year, the Bel Group says it has entered into an exclusive partnership with the dairy producer to bring precision fermentation into its catalog of products.
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You’re Already Eating Foods With Ingredients Made Using Precision Fermentation, So Why The Fuss About Animal-Free Dairy?
Precision fermentation has been around for decades, and most of us eat foods that contain ingredients made using the technology on a daily basis. Animal-free dairy makers are now using it to bring you the cheese and milk you love without!-->…
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Indonesia’s Green Rebel Launches Into Plant-Based Dairy Category
Following the first-ever dairy-free festival in Jakarta, Indonesia-based Green Rebel Foods has launched into the plant-based dairy category.
Green Rebel is a leading producer of plant-based protein across Southeast Asia. Its new!-->!-->!-->…
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There Is No Such Thing As Sustainable Dairy
Notes From the Frontlines of the Sustainable Food Movement – a new opinion column by Irina Gerry
Images of happy cows on pasture hide the ugly truth the dairy industry doesn't want you to know: dairy production can never be sustainable.!-->!-->!-->…
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Phyx44, India’s First Full-Stack Precision Fermentation Dairy Company, Raises $1.2M Seed
Phyx44 is well on its way to disrupting India's dairy sector with its $1.2 million seed funding for its precision fermentation technology.
The Bangalore-based Phyx44 says it's using precision fermentation to create whey and casein!-->!-->!-->…
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A Centrist Approach to Animal-Free Dairy Might Be Best, New Research Finds
New research finds consumers are attracted to animal-free dairy when marketing emphasizes the environmental and ethical benefits, but not too much and not too little, either.
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Will Kraft Consumers Buy Its Vegan ‘Not Cheese’?
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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Investments In APAC Agrifood Tech Set a New $5 Billion Record, According To New Report
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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US, EU & APAC Cultivated Food Associations Announce Major Global Alliance To Boost Industry
For the first time, three leading cultivated food industry associations are hosting a first-of-its-kind meeting this week in Singapore to formalize the launch of a global alliance to advance cultivated foods on the global stage.
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Dairy in the Desert: Change Foods To Bring the First Precision Fermentation Facility to the UAE
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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Thailand Just Got Its First Vegan Cheese Factory
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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What Is Vegan Cheese? Everything to Know And 10 Brands You Need to Try
Vegan cheese has become something of a scapegoat—often cited as the reason people won't go plant-based. But is it really bad? A lot has changed in the dairy-free cheese world in recent years, and now, food tech companies are creating!-->…
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Asia’s First Dairy-Free Festival Is a Signal of the APAC Market Potential
Last month, Jakarta held Asia's very first dairy-free festival and alternative milk latte art competition in a strong showing of the category potential across the region.
Organized by the Jakarta Vegan Guide, the Generasi Dairy-Free!-->!-->!-->…
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Woody Harrelson Helps Wicked Kitchen ‘Push Boundaries’ In $20 Million Bridge Round
Wicked Kitchen, the plant-based empire that started out of the U.K. supermarket chain Tesco, has secured $20 million in bridge funding, including a convertible note from actor Woody Harrelson.
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After 40 Years, Dairy-Free Pioneer Tofutti Adds ‘Vegan’ to Its Labels
Legacy dairy-free brand Toffuti has announced its first rebrand in decades with one notable upgrade: the labels now includes the words 'vegan' and 'plant-based.'
To the vegan-versed consumer, Tofutti's new black and red packaging looks!-->!-->!-->…
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