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Food Waste Fighting Startup Apeel Bags $250M In Temasek-Led Round
Apeel, the startup whose tech enables longer-lasting fresh produce, has just bagged $250 million in a fresh funding round. The round, led by Singapore’s Temasek, will go towards Apeel’s continued expansion across Europe, the U.S. and U.K.!-->…
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Soybean Innovator Benson Hill’s CEO: ‘I Don’t Think You Can Get To Parity Level With Meat Without Ingredient Innovation’
Matt Crisp is the CEO of Benson Hill, the company using AI to create sustainable foods and ingredients. Based in St Louis, Missouri, the firm describes itself as a “crop design” company combining AI, data analytics, food science and plant!-->…
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Q&A w/ Chef Toshio Tanahashi: The Shojin Master On That Eleven Madison Park Menu, The Controversy Of Plant-Based & Why We Must Respect…
Chef Toshio Tanahashi is a master in shojin ryori, one of the oldest culinary traditions in Japan. Based in Okinawa, the southernmost part of Japan, the renowned shojin chef, who trained under Zen buddhist monks, is famously known as a!-->…
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How Foodsteps Is Making Carbon Labelled Restaurant Menus A Reality
British startup Foodsteps has created a platform to help restaurants and caterers calculate and reduce carbon emissions through labelling.
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Why These Hong Kong Restaurateurs Are Supporting Regenerative Agriculture
Restaurateurs in Hong Kong are partnering up with Zero Foodprint Asia to support regenerative agriculture in their own backyard.
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Fight Food Waste With Vegan AI Protein? This Startup Just Raised $10M To Do It.
Biotech startup Protera has raised US$10 million in its Series A round to advance its protein platform and fight food waste.
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Zooey Deschanel Is Giving Out Reward Points When You Shop Green
American actress Zooey Deschanel wants to help shoppers make sustainable and healthy food choices on a new rewards app called Merryfield.
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This Singapore Startup Uses AI To Make Indulgent Foods Healthy. It’s Now Got $3M To Scale Up.
Hoow Foods, the Singapore startup using AI and machine learning to make your favourite foods healthy, secures $3 million in funding.
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ADM Doubles Down on Vegan Meat with Vegan Sojaprotein Acquisition
American food giant ADM is doubling down on its alt-protein business segment with a planned acquisition of Sojaprotein. Based in Serbia, Sojaprotein is the largest plant-based protein provider in southern Europe and the country’s largest!-->…
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Processed Meat Raises Heart Disease Risk By 18%, Oxford Study Finds
A new Oxford University review finds that red and processed meat consumption significantly increases the risk of heart disease.
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Carbon Labels Could Soon Be On All 75,000 Unilever Products
Unilever will launch on-pack carbon labels for selected products this year, before covering its entire range within the next 2-5 years.
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Are You Vegan-Curious? A New Survey Says You Probably Are
One in five Americans' diets are completely different than five years ago, with data citing a rise in consumers who are “vegan-curious”.
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What If Just Reducing Meat Is Enough to Fix Our Food and Climate Crises?
A new documentary, Meat Me Halfway, says reducing meat consumption can fix our broken food system, our health and our climate crisis.
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Report: Health and Food Security To Drive Plant Protein Shift in Asia
Health and food security concerns will be among the top drivers of the plant-based protein shift in key Asian economies, a new report finds.
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Nitrogen Innovator Pivot Bio Bags $430M To Fight Synthetic Fertiliser Emissions
Pivot Bio, the startup that wants to displace synthetic fertiliser emissions, has just raised $430 million in its Series D funding round.
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Food Systems Forum: 5 Things Food and Nutrition Experts Want You To Know
Food system experts chatted about sustainable protein, food, nutrition, and more at the recent Food Systems Forum.
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Just Salad’s Largest-Ever Capital Raise to Double Locations, Scale Reusable Bowl Program
The healthy fast-casual restaurant chain Just Salad will use new capital to scale its reusable bowl program and double its restaurants.
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New ‘Reawakened Foods’ Campaign To Promote Global Biodiversity Through Storytelling
The “Reawakened Foods” global biodiversity storytelling initiative is open to photographers, filmmakers, journalists, and experts.
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G20 Nations Are Not Leading on Food Sustainability, Says New Index
G20 nations still have "room for improvement" in tackling food waste, sustainability, agriculture, and nutrition, a new index shows.
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Researchers Find Biological Link Between Red Meat Intake and Colorectal Cancer
According to a new study, a type of DNA damage as a result of red meat consumption increases the risk of colorectal cancer.
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Amazon Adds New Sustainability Certifications To Its Products
Amazon's new sustainability certification labels span across 75,000+ products sold in both the US and Europe.
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