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Float Foods Brings Its OnlyEg to Hong Kong Meal Kits In DayDayCook Exclusive
Singapore's Float Foods, the plant-based food tech startup known for its egg replacement OnlyEg, has announced a partnership with DayDayCook, a direct-to-consumer meal solutions platform.
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Another Foods Launches India’s First Plant-Based Food-Service-Ready Chicken
Mumbai-based Another Foods says its new plant-based chicken is made specifically for food service to support the demands across the hospitality and restaurant industries.
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Tasted & Reviewed: The Best Animal-Free & Plant-Based Cream Cheese Spreads
Not every alt protein cream cheese is made equal and that’s a great thing!
If you poll every one of your friends on what their favorite cream cheese is, you will not get anywhere near consensus. There’s an array of choices on the market!-->!-->!-->…
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Australia Gets Its First Plant-Based Meat Ingredient Facility
With $1 million in assistance from the Australian Government's Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre, Harvest B has opened the first facility dedicated to plant-based meat ingredients in Australia.
The new Sydney-based facility will be!-->!-->!-->…
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The Jeff Bezos-Backed Vegan Unicorn NotCo Raises $70 Million to Scale Up B2B Tech
NotCo, the Jeff Bezos-backed Chilean vegan food tech company working with a novel AI tool to develop plant-based milk, meat, and chicken, has announced the closing of a $70 million Series D1.
With funding led by Princeville Capital and!-->!-->!-->…
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5 Brands Making Plant-Based Seafood So Realistic You Can’t Tell It’s Vegan
Seafood is a fast-growing niche of the alternative protein sector. With that is a sub-niche of unbelievably realistic plant-based whole-cut products. Made using 100 percent vegan ingredients, these substitutes for fish and seafood claim to!-->…
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Black Sheep Foods Raise a $12.3 Million Series A for Plant-Based Lamb
Black Sheep Foods, the Bay Area plant-based food tech company working to create vegan lamb meat with proprietary patent-pending technology has closed a $12.3 million Series A funding round.
Black Sheep's funding was led by Unovis,!-->!-->!-->…
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Malk Organics Closes a $9 Million Series B
Malk Organics, the Texas-based organic dairy alternative brand, announced a $9 million Series B funding round led by Benvolio Group and Rotor Capital.
Malk was launched in 2015 by August Vega after she discovered her one-year-old son!-->!-->!-->…
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Cultivated Meat Just Landed In a Butcher Shop for the First Time
Eat Just's Good Meat is now available through a Singaporean butcher shop, Huber's Butchery.
Eat Just's cultivated Good Meat is coming to the display case and bistro menu of Huber's Butchery in Singapore, beginning early next year. The!-->!-->!-->…
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Believer to Open the World’s Largest Cultivated Meat Factory in the Heart of Hog Country
A new cultivated meat factory slated to open in North Carolina will be the world's largest.
In what Israel-based Believer Meats says is a watershed moment for the cultivated meat industry, its forthcoming 200,000-square-foot factory,!-->!-->!-->…
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Is Fungi The Future Of Bacon? We Tasted Libre Foods’ Animal-Free Rashers To Find Out
Libre Foods' fungi-based bacon product created using fermentation (precision) technology is designed to meet the growing EU demand for pork—currently a $53 billion industry—that offers an alternative to the disadvantages of commercial pig!-->…
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Swiss Court Sides With Planted Foods on Use of ‘Meaty’ Labeling Terminology
The Zurich Administrative Court has sided with Swiss plant-based protein manufacturer Planted Foods and its use of terminology including "chicken" and "BBQ."
"The use of animal names on the packaging of plant-based foods made from pea!-->!-->!-->…
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Dairy-Free Philadelphia Cream Cheese Makes Its U.S. Debut
After popular U.S.-based cream cheese brand Philadelphia launched its first dairy-free offering in Tesco stores across the U.K. in January, the vegan cream cheese is now available in the U.S.
According to Robert Scott, president of!-->!-->!-->…
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Orbillion Bio’s New Partnership Will Produce 4 Million Pounds of Cultivated Meat Per Year
Collaborating with synbio tech solutions provider Solar Biotech, cultivated meat pioneer Orbillion Bio says it can produce upwards of four million pounds of cultivated meat per year.
Known for its premium cultivated Wagyu beef,!-->!-->!-->…
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After Nearly $1 Billion In Plant-Based Sales Last Year, Nestlé Grows Its Vegan Portfolio
New plant-based items come to Nestlé as it eyes market opportunities around the globe.
Sales for multinational food giant Nestlé grew by more than three percent in 2021 to more than $94 billion USD. One of the food giant's biggest!-->!-->!-->…
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‘Industrial Meat is Responsible For Irreversible Damage’ – Chloe Sorvino Talks New Book Raw Deal
An interview with Chloe Sorvino, financial journalist, Forbes Food & AG editor and author of Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat, a new book that takes an in-depth investigative look into!-->…
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The Future is Asian: Green Queen Publishes 2022 Edition of Award-Winning APAC Alt Protein Report
A new report by Green Queen Media argues that while plant-based meat sales may be flat in the US and Europe, in Asia Pacific, the alternative protein industry is booming.
Green Queen Media has published the 2022 edition of its!-->!-->!-->…
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Umiami’s Unilever Factory Takeover Will Put French Vegan Meat on the Global Map
France-based vegan meat brand Umiami has announced the acquisition of a Unilever factory to begin production of its "vegetable meat made in France."
Umiami says the 14,000 m2 factory, located in Duppigheim near Strasbourg, will begin!-->!-->!-->…
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Idris Elba Backs $24 Million Series B for Meal Replacement Company Huel
The plant-based U.K. meal replacement company Huel has closed a $24 million Series B funding round, bringing its valuation to more than $560 million.
Huel's fresh funding was led by existing investor Highland Europe, with support from!-->!-->!-->…
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Is Perfect Day Gearing Up for Fermented Gelatin?
Perfect Day, the California-based precision fermentation dairy producer, has acquired India's Sterling Biotech Limited—one of the top gelatin producers in the world.
Nabbing Sterling Biotech, which sold at bankruptcy for roughly $78!-->!-->!-->…
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The World’s First Cultivated Fish Fat Dives Into the Cell-Based Fat Category
ImpacFat has unveiled the world's first cultivated fish fat during the Big Idea Ventures Demo Day showcase underway in Singapore.
With a rich mouthfeel and increased nutrition profile, ImpacFat's newly cultivated fish fat is the latest!-->!-->!-->…
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