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How to Make Raw Vegan Caramel Coconut Goji Truffles
Raw vegan desserts are nutritious, 100% natural and made without artificial sugar. This is better for your health, your waistline and the planet. And the incredible part is, the desserts can taste as good as, if not better, than…
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The Truth About Your Fairtrade Chocolate Bar: Q&A w/ Fairafric Founder Hendrik Reimers
In 2016, Hendrik Reimers founded Fairafric, a social enterprise that brings delicious organic chocolate bars to the world, sourced, produced and wrapped in Ghana. Unlike many Fairtrade certified brands, where the most impact isn’t really!-->…
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The Week In Plant-Based: Beyond Meat And Pepsi Recreate Jerky With Plants, Hong Kong Gets A New Vegan Brand
The vegan news never stops! Each week, the Green Queen team dives into the latest developments for plant-based foods around the world so you can catch up on what’s happening across the industry. This week, PepsiCo and Beyond Meat launch a!-->…
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Could Sunflower Kernel Powder Be The Secret Creamy Ingredient Vegan Chocolate Is Missing?
Cargill has unveiled a new vegan chocolate line under the ExtraVeganZa brand and products are made using a slew of what the company calls “power ingredients”. The food giant says using sunflower kernel powder and rice syrup make their!-->…
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60% Of Millenials and Gen-Z Expect Plant-Based Chocolate Options From All Brands, Study Finds
A new report has revealed that Millenial and Gen Z consumers are demanding more plant-based foods—specifically, dairy-free chocolate. The study was carried out by Swiss chocolatier Barry Callebaut, assessing changing buyer attitudes across!-->…
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We Review Lindt’s New Vegan Milk Chocolate Bars: ‘Not Revolutionary, But A Strong, Delightful Debut’
By Anay Mridul
It’s time for every vegan to look at Lindt’s chocolate the way its infamously sexy chocolatier does. I’ve spent my fair share of days looking at the red Lindor balls and coaxing them into being plant-based. Lindt has!-->!-->!-->…
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The Week In Food Tech: MeaTech 3D Bio-Prints ‘The Largest’ Cultivated Steak to Date, Treeline Unveils Vegan Slices and Shreds
Just a few short years ago, it was unusual to get more than a handful of stories each week about meat analogues, dairy alternatives, and other alt and/or vegan foods. Nowadays, the opposite is true. In fact, there are so many developments!-->…
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The Week In Food Tech: MEAT ZERO Heads to Singapore, Peas of Heaven Raises €2.7M, and Billie Eilish Unveils Vegan Chocolate
Just a few short years ago, it was unusual to get more than a handful of stories each week about meat analogues, dairy alternatives, and other alt and/or vegan foods. Nowadays, the opposite is true. In fact, there are so many developments!-->…
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Singapore Will Soon Get Its First Tree-To-Bar Chocolate Made From Local Cacao
Chef Janice Wong wants to bring Singapore its first-ever tree-to-bar chocolate made with locally grown cacao.
Most of the world’s cocoa is produced in just two countries: the Ivory Coast and Ghana. But now, the city-state of!-->!-->!-->…
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The Week In Food Tech: Impossible And Buitoni Vegan Ravioli, Plus New Foods From Ritter Sport, Blue Tribe, and Barvecue
Just a few short years ago, it was unusual to get more than a handful of stories each week about meat analogues, dairy alternatives, and other alt and/or vegan foods. Nowadays, the opposite is true. In fact, there are so many developments!-->…
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Meet Vegan Delights, Sweden’s 100% Plant-Based Willy Wonka Factory
There’s now a chocolate factory inspired by Willy Wonka and it’s 100% vegan. Started in a small kitchen in Uppsala, Sweden, Vegan Delights has just opened up its factory doors to welcome visitors into the dreamworld of plant-based!-->…
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Lindt Is Releasing Two New Vegan Oat Milk Chocolate Bars For Veganuary
Lindt has announced on World Vegan Day that it will be releasing two new vegan milk chocolate bars in time for Veganuary 2022.
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California Cultured Secures $4M To Make Lab-Grown Chocolate A Reality
California Cultured, the startup developing lab-grown chocolate, has secured $4 million in a new funding round to scale its technology.
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Germany’s QOA Raises $6M In Seed Funding For Cocoa-Free Fermented Chocolate Production
Cocoa-free fermented chocolate maker QOA has raised $6 million in seed funding to build out a pilot production facility.
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Valrhona’s New Vegan Milk Chocolate Was Designed for Pastry Chefs
French premium chocolatiers Valrhona has launched Madagascan Amatika 46%, its first vegan milk chocolate for plant-based pastries.
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Cadbury’s Vegan Plant Chocolate Bars Debut In UK Supermarkets Next Month
Mondelez is launching a vegan chocolate bar, the Cadbury Plant Bar, next month across stores in the UK and Ireland.
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The Week In Food Tech: Choc Affair’s Plant-Based Chocolate Bars, Vegan Whipped Cream From Starbucks
This week in food tech news, Choc Affair launches a vegan chocolate bar in the UK, Starbucks unveils vegan whipped cream in the US.
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Nucao Vegan Chocolate Makers Secure €14M As Climate-Positive Snacks Take Off
The Nu Company, the Leipzig-based startup behind the vegan chocolate and protein brands Nucao and Numove, has just bagged €14 million in a Series A round of financing. Proceeds from the round will fuel Nu’s ongoing expansion, amid a!-->…
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QOA’s Lab-Made Fermented Chocolate Comes Free From Cocoa and Unsustainable Production Practices
Worldwide, we consume around 7 million tons of chocolate every year. But as with other sectors of the food industry like meat and dairy, mainstream chocolate is under a lot more scrutiny these days for unsustainable production methods and!-->…
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Female-Founded Brazilian ‘Super Vegan’ Chocolate Brand Gets Funding From Plant-Based Investors
Super Vegan, a plant-based chocolate brand from Brazil, has just caught the attention of vegan investors Veg Capital and Crica Wolthers.
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