Alt Protein

The Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein and Imperial College London have launched a future food accelerator to help startups reach commercial scale, connecting them with Danone, Mars, Cargill and Kerry. Bezos Earth Fund is extending…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Lavazza's Alpro-endorsed milk frother, HappyVore's kebab collab, and the FDA's self-GRAS update. New products and…
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Orkla has given a facelift to six popular breakfast products under its MTR Foods brand in India, which now feature 10g of plant-based protein to align with consumer health trends. Among the best ways to help people eat more protein is…
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The Indian government has published a 10-year roadmap to boost the national bioeconomy sector, which includes building the alternative protein sector through manufacturing and regulatory progress. India's commitment to the bioeconomy…
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The EU has pumped €5.7M into Alganova, a new project that seeks to establish a biorefinery for the production of proteins and functional ingredients from microalgae fed on waste and carbon dioxide. Algae's potential to safeguard the…
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A new study suggests that consumers in the US and Germany are more accepting of cultivated meat when labelled with that term instead of 'lab-grown'. What do you call cultivated meat to deliver the maximum impact? Do you keep that…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Wicked Kitchen's UK return, Tetra Pak's new bioreactor, and the Green Party's plant-based policy proposal. New products…
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The UK's Food Standards Agency has published the second tranche of guidance documents for cultivated meat regulation, just as the country pursues an EU trade agreement that could jeopardise approvals. As the UK and the EU navigate a new…
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More than 80 alternative protein startups have experienced M&As, insolvency, or closures over the last two years – and investors and founders don’t expect this consolidation trend to stop. ”I think the next generation of food…
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German ingredient giant Crespel & Deiters has teamed up with Finland’s Happy Plant Protein to deploy its one-step dry extrusion technology at commercial scale. Happy Plant Protein, a Finnish company that produces plant proteins via…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Oatly's partnership with Dutch Railways, Finless Foods' crowdfunding round, and Gosh!'s Mad About Veg campaign. New…
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Dutch cultivated meat pioneer Mosa Meat has received an €875,000 ($1M) loan from state-owned Invest International to navigate regulatory processes and launch into countries across the globe. Seven months after raising €15M ($17.6M at…
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In its first policy brief, Horizon Europe-backed project Giant Leaps is urging the EU to accelerate the transition to alternative proteins while preserving the nutritional adequacy of diets. The EU is increasingly facing calls for a…
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Spanish manufacturer Alimentos Sanygran has acquired the plant-based and organic business assets of Nutrition & Santé’s Iberia arm, including a factory and 60-odd employees. Alimentos Sanygran, a Navarra-based manufacturer of…
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Japan’s government has laid out a draft public-private investment roadmap across 17 sectors for 2040, totalling $2.3T. As part of this, it’s targeting $6.2B in funding for novel food technologies. Japan has taken a big step in its bid…
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Future food businesses in the Netherlands are calling on the government to make at least €200M available via an EU funding mechanism to expand alternative protein production. The Netherlands may already be a food tech leader, but a…
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The sustainability non-profit Lever Foundation is expanding its policy initiative to increase plant-based food availability in restaurants, hotels, and retailers in India and Thailand. Lever Foundation, a sustainability non-profit…
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US holding company Livekindly Collective has signed its latest acquisition deal with the purchase of German plant-based foods startup Greenforce. "This category will keep consolidating, which – given our strong position in the market –…
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French cultivated meat leader Parima has demonstrated tonne-scale production of its duck at viable cost economics on a 22,000-litre line run by Australia's Vow. As it awaits regulatory approval in Australia, France's Parima has…
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Spanish plant-based leader Heura has debuted its first non-meat-mimicking products: legume-based veggie burgers that contain twice the protein as the category average. On the back of its first profitable quarter, Barcelona-based Heura…
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In a convergence of cross-Atlantic vegan seafood brands, US startup Bayou Best Foods has taken over Germany's BettaF!sh to bring its shrimp, tuna and salmon alternatives to more consumers. Two years after its establishment, Bayou Best…
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