Alt Fats

Famous for its cacao- and palm-oil-free chocolates, WNWN Food Labs deep-dives into its research and development with fats, its alternative to cocoa percentages, and when consumers can expect to taste its chocolate. Working on chocolate,…
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Ahead of a Series A round next year, UK biotech firm Clean Food Group has raised £2.3M in funding to accelerate the commercialisation of its fermentation-based fat, which it describes as a sustainable replacement for palm oil. The…
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Using New York-based climate tech startup C16 Biosciences' Palmless Torula oil, British material science firm Pangaia and skincare label Haeckels have together created the Rewild Body Block. The limited-edition soap bar is a sustainable…
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Omega-3 fatty acids are essential for health and wellbeing. Many people believe that omega-3s can only be found in non-plant-based sources such as fatty fish. However, there are many plant-based foods that do contain omega-3s, and…
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When it comes to seafood alternatives, the choices are limited. Dutch start-up Upstream Foods aims to change that by cultivating fat from salmon cells for the plant-based seafood market. The alternative seafood sector has seen…
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The search for animal fat alternatives is taking off. Below, we highlight five food tech startups focusing on the business of fat. Demand for flavourful cultivated meats, realistic plant-based options, and palm oil-free products is…
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A handful of startups around the world are pioneering new ways to produce the fat we all know and love, and unlocking a more sustainable food system in the process. Fat is an important, but often misunderstood, core macronutrient. It…
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San Francisco's innovative food tech company, Lypid, has announced its entry into U.S. food service and B2B markets this month with the debut of its revolutionary plant-based PhytoFat. To provide an authentic meaty experience to…
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Following its release in 2021, Sweden's Mycorena says its fungi-stabilized sustainable fat dubbed Mycolein, is now available for sale. Mycorena first announced its fungi-based fat that mimics animal fat in late 2021. The product earned…
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Taiwanese-U.S. food-tech company Lypid unveiled vegan pork belly made from its patented PhytoFat at the recent Future Food-Tech summit held in San Francisco earlier this month. The product ist the first release of Lypid's upcoming line…
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Shiru, an AI-powered discovery and development company for novel ingredients, has launched its first commercial product. OleoPro is a novel, sustainable plant protein-based fat ingredient for use in a range of alternative protein food…
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California food tech Impossible Foods has announced a new Beef Lite product with a lower saturated and total fat content that cooks like 90/10 lean beef from cows. US plant-based meat company Impossible Foods has expanded its…
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Cargill, the world’s third largest meat producer, has recently announced its extending its partnership with food tech startup Cubiq Foods to co-develop and commercialize plant-based fat technologies. The agreement aims to accelerate…
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The Estonian start-up Äio has raised €1 million to create alternative oils and fats using agricultural byproducts. The funding comes by way of Nordic Foodtech VC, EAS, and other partners. Founded last year by TalTech bioengineers…
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ImpacFat has unveiled the world's first cultivated fish fat during the Big Idea Ventures Demo Day showcase underway in Singapore. With a rich mouthfeel and increased nutrition profile, ImpacFat's newly cultivated fish fat is the latest…
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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. External laboratories verified that Wilk's yogurt meets all…
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Decades of calls to action to curb greenhouse gas emissions have led to 'climate fatigue' around the world as the crisis becomes direr, new research finds. Scientists have been calling for climate action for decades—and that continued…
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Asian alternative meat maker OmniFoods has debuted a new patented technology, dubbed OmniNano™️ Vegan Fat, that will provide the juiciness that consumers expect from animal meat and power a new line of vegan beef, chicken and pork…
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Portland-based Thrilling Foods says it has earned a patent for its 'world's first' fat-streaked vegan 'bakon'. Patents are rare in the plant-based meat category, says Thrilling Foods, but the young company's "protein-bound fat" streaks…
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With backing from Big Idea Ventures, ProVeg International, and Realum.cloud, cultivated fat startup Cultimate has raised €700,000 in a pre-seed funding round. The German-based Cultimate Foods is working to upgrade meat alternatives…
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A sustainable alternative to palm oil can't come soon enough. C16 Biosciences says it's ready to make it happen with its first commercial product line launching next year. C16 Biosciences, the Bill Gates-backed company producing oils…
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