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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Bold Bean Co's Ottolenghi collaboration, Beyond Meat's new documentary, and Miyoko Schinner's upcoming vegan cookbook. …
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Australian firm Nourish Ingredients has completed an industrial-scale production of its animal-free, meat-like fat while keeping costs low – here's how it's doing it. Six months after forming a partnership with Chinese fermentation…
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From animal-free egg salad to a milk alternative made from corn, here are the future food products that stood out most to our expert reviewer at Expo West 2025. It's that time of year again: when Anaheim, California is packed with…
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Known for its cultured quail, Sydney-based Vow has received regulatory approval from Food Standards Australia New Zealand, a first for cultivated meat in the region. Australian food tech startup Vow has become the first startup to…
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Polling shows that health concerns are the biggest consumption driver in Brazil, potentially pushing 74% of its population to reduce or eliminate meat from their diets. Brazil is home to JBS, Minerva and Marfrig, making it the world's…
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The European Investment Bank has provided Swedish agricultural cooperative Lantmännen with €50M in part financing for a pea protein isolate factory. Lantmännen, Sweden's largest farmer cooperative, has received a big boost from the EU…
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Researchers in Finland are using extended reality to create a multisensory eating experience and enhance the appeal of plant-based meat alternatives. Forget CRISPR, fermentation or 3D printing – maybe all we need to improve the…
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In our interview series, we quiz future food investors about the solutions that excite them the most, their favourite climate-forward restaurant, and what they look for in successful founders. Matteo Leonardi is an Investment Manager at…
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Spanish plant-based meat leader Heura Foods and French vegan whole-cut specialist Swap Food have teamed up to launch a Suprême chicken fillet in three European markets. With an aim to "revolutionise the plant-based fillet experience",…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Ajinomoto and Solar Foods's latest product launch, Unity Diner's return, and a new meat-free omakase experience in Hong…
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Amid trade wars and a potential recession, the solution to a strong US economy could simply be on your plate. Can growing and eating more plants equal more jobs? That's the central argument from a new report suggesting that the US could…
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Australian Plant Proteins, which went into insolvency last year, has been acquired by investment firm My Co and will resume operations next month. My Co, the investment vehicle of the Paule Family Office, has taken over Melbourne-based…
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We may be overconsuming protein, but the global appetite for the nutrient continues to grow – and future food brands are listening. Protein-enhanced coffee may have been around for a few years, but how often do you find protein in your…
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Jeff Tripician is the CEO of Meatable, a Dutch food tech startup working on cultivated pork. A former meat industry exec, he argues that a collaborative approach is the only recipe for success. As global demand for meat rises, one thing…
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Chinese government officials have called for a boost to the national biotech capacity and the introduction of a novel food framework at its Two Sessions summit. Chinese lawmakers have issued calls to speed up the development of its…
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British cultivated meat player Hoxton Farms has partnered with Japan's Sumitomo Corporation to bring its pork fat ingredient to Asia. For cultivated meat, fat is all the rage right now. In Europe, Mosa Meat has filed for regulatory…
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In our interview series, we quiz future food investors about the solutions that excite them the most, their favourite climate-forward restaurant, and what they look for in successful founders. Erika Hombert is a Senior Investment…
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Grass-fed beef is as bad for the planet as the industrial version, and significantly more carbon-intensive than plant proteins, a new study has found. You may be eating grass-fed beef because you've been told it's better for the…
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Food tech firm BioCraft Pet Nutrition has received registration from Austrian authorities to sell its cultivated meat ingredient in pet food applications across the EU. After a string of developments last year, 2025 is shaping up to be…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Impossible Foods's beef slider rollout, the New York Mets's new vegan sandwich, and Grubby's vegan meal kits for B Corp…
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One of the loudest opponents of cultivated meat, Coldiretti rallied thousands of farmers to demand the EU assess novel foods like new drugs. It cited concerns from scientists, but half of them are members of the organisation. It was…
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