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Lindt Brings Its Creamy Vegan Oat Milk Chocolate To the U.S.
At the start of the year, Swiss chocolatier Lindt released two vegan chocolate bars in the U.K, to coincide with Veganuary. Canada followed in February and now, the U.S. is getting a taste of the original and salted caramel incarnations.!-->…
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Space F And Partners Scoop $15 Million Government Grant
South Korean cultivated meat startup Space F, along with four partners, has won a grant of $15 million to continue researching cultivated meat. As part of the Alychymist Project, an R&D initiative supported by South Korea’s Ministry of!-->…
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Skinny Butcher Nails Two Trends In One With ‘Stranger Things’ And Vegan Chicken Nuggets
Ahead of the Stranger Things season four premiere, Detroit’s Skinny Butcher has announced it has rolled out show-themed plant-based chicken nuggets in nationwide Walmart stores. The Crazy Crispy Chick’n Nuggets are the latest in a long!-->…
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Mayonnaise Giant Kewpie Unveils Plant-Based Egg Line
Kewpie, known for its range of egg-based mayonnaise products which your local sushi joint slathers all over your California roll, has announced its new plant-based egg range. The Japanese manufacturer has unveiled Hobotama, which!-->…
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Greenest Debuts New Range Of Plant-Based Foods To Key Industry Players
Upstablish Food Technologies has announced a new range of plant-based meats from its Greenest brand. One of India’s leading plant-based startups, the brand has previously made noise in the space with its “hyper-realistic” shami kebabs.!-->…
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Alternative Seafood Is Set To Benefit From This New Whole Food Ingredient
Smallfood, a Canadian microbial fermentation ingredients startup, claims that it's about to change the alternative seafood sector thanks to a whole food ingredient it has developed. When added to seafood analogues, the company's!-->…
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Heura Launches Good Rebel Tech To ‘Redefine Plant-Based Food Manufacturing’
Barcelona-based Heura has announced a new approach to plant-based food production. Good Rebel Tech (G.R.T.) is a new platform created to develop what the company describes as sustainable micro and macronutrient-rich foods in order to!-->…
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Fermify Closes Pre-Seed Round To Accelerate Proof-Of-Concept Cheese Debut
Vienna’s Fermify, which has created a digital platform that can produce casein proteins via precision fermentation, has concluded a pre-seed undisclosed funding round led by Übermorgen Ventures and Backbone Ventures, with participation!-->…
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BioMeat And The Volcani Institute Launch E-FISHient To Develop Cultivated Tilapia
Israel’s E-FISHient Protein is a joint startup project between BioMeat and The Volcani Institute that aims to develop, produce and market cultivated tilapia fish meat, using non-animal serums. Such serums are being considered for!-->…
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Gelatex Claims To Have Solved One Of Cultivated Meat’s Biggest Scaling Hurdles: Affordable Scaffolding
Estonia-based Gelatex claims that its nanofiber scaffolding system is now able to support the production of 300 tonnes of cultivated meat per year. Using plant-based polymers, the startup has been able to drastically reduce the cost of!-->…
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15 New Alt Protein Startups To Watch
Animal agriculture contributes to climate change to such an extent that there’s no question alternatives need to be embraced. As the second-largest human-caused contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, the industrial animal protein!-->…
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Leo To Lewis: Let’s Go For Vegan Burger Domination
Lewis Hamilton’s Neat Burger chain is branching out, stateside. The vegan fast-food startup has announced that following a pop-up location this month, it is opening a permanent Manhattan location. To date, Neat Burger is solely!-->…
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Israel’s Remilk to Build the World’s Largest Animal-Free Dairy Factory in Denmark
Hot on the heels of a $120 million Series B raise in January, Israel’s Remilk has announced ambitious construction plan: the precision fermentation dairy startup will create a full-scale factory on a recently acquired 750,000 square foot!-->…
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European Researchers Say Cultivated Meat Diet Shift Could Mean 80% Water, Land and Emissions Savings
A study conducted by the University of Helsinki suggests that diets that include cultivated meat and dairy could offer water, land and carbon emissions savings of more than 80% when compared to conventional European diets.
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Hoshay Food Launches Minimally-Processed Plant-Based Meals For The Singaporean Palate
Singapore’s Hoshay Food has released a line of plant-based ready meals designed to cater to local tastes. Crispy fried chicken and freshwater eel alternatives are included in the range which is claimed to be sustainable and!-->…
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Vegan Spam Returns To McDonald’s, This Time With Less Salt
McDonald’s is serving OmniPork Luncheon meat, affectionately called ‘vegan Spam’, in its Hong Kong restaurants again. First introduced in late 2020, as part of the breakfast menu, it was rolled out through 280 locations, plus additional!-->…
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This Seattle Nugget Company Says It Can Beat The Price Of Animal Meat Thanks To Automation
Seattle’s Rebellyous Foods has produced restaurant-quality vegan chicken nuggets that are equal in price to meat thanks to proprietary technology, dubbed the Mock 1S. The company says it took three years to get to what they describe a!-->…
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Convenient, Affordable & Juicy: Plant Sifu Looks To Disrupt Hong Kong’s Appetite for Pork Dumplings
Hong Kong startup Good Food Technologies has unveiled its first consumer-facing plant-based brand, Plant Sifu. Offering meat-free alternatives to conventional dumplings and pork, the company aims to undermine Asia’s demand for animal!-->…
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China Holds First Cellular Agriculture Forum To Embolden Cultivated Meat Progress
Food security and a growing demand for protein is on every government's mind. A new cultivated meat industry association, the China Cellular Agriculture Forum, held its first event last week and was attended by approximately 30 companies!-->…
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OneRare And Honeybee Burger Join Forces To Make The Metaverse More Meat-Free
OneRare, builder of the first food-centric metaverse platform has revealed LA-based mini-chain Honeybee Burger will be joining its world. The plant-based brand sees the joining of the ‘foodverse’ as a new way to make meat-free menu items!-->…
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Animal Free Dairy Maker Perfect Day Acquires 3 New Manufacturing Plants In India, Announces New U.S. Hub
California’s Perfect Day has been confirmed as the winning bidder in an auction for Mumbai-based Sterling Biotech. The reported final figure was Rs 638 crore, with the reserve set as Rs 548.46 crore. Sterling entered into the liquidation!-->…
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