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Cultivated meat brand Meatable has announced a 'Future of Meat' innovation center in partnership with plant-based meat brand Love Handle in an effort to bring the two sectors together to co-create the future of food. Would you eat vegan…
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Portland-based Thrilling Foods says it has earned a patent for its 'world's first' fat-streaked vegan 'bakon'. Patents are rare in the plant-based meat category, says Thrilling Foods, but the young company's "protein-bound fat" streaks…
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Vow says its Series A funding round comes as it expects approval from Singapore to begin selling its cultivated meat in restaurants later this year. Australian cultivated meat producer Vow has closed a record-setting $49.2 million…
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Juicy Marbles, the plant-based meat brand known for its whole-cut steak, says its newest product, a whole-cut loin, is the 'biggest, most insulting piece of plant muscle ever conceived.' The new Juicy Marbles loin was launched in…
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Beyond Meat scores a European win with retail placement in 1,600 German supermarket locations. Despite recent layoffs and cooling sales in the U.S. across the vegan sector, Europe's demand for plant-based food continues. It's good news…
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With backing from Big Idea Ventures, ProVeg International, and Realum.cloud, cultivated fat startup Cultimate has raised €700,000 in a pre-seed funding round. The German-based Cultimate Foods is working to upgrade meat alternatives…
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With fungi showing promise as a vegan protein alternative, category leaders have joined forces. Leaders in the fungi-based protein sector have formed their own trade group. The Fungi Protein Association has launched with eight founding…
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Notes From the Frontlines of the Sustainable Food Movement - a new opinion column by Irina Gerry There has been a lot of chatter lately about “Low Carbon Beef", but does the climate math hold up? The United States Department of…
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The Plant Based Seafood Company has partnered with foodservice giant Sysco for the distribution of its Mind Blown vegan crab cakes. The Virginia-based Plant Based Seafood Company says its vegan crab cakes will soon be available across…
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Phyx44 is well on its way to disrupting India's dairy sector with its $1.2 million seed funding for its precision fermentation technology. The Bangalore-based Phyx44 says it's using precision fermentation to create whey and casein…
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A new survey from Israel-based food tech company SuperMeat, finds the vast majority of chefs, 86 percent, are interested in serving cultivated meat—an indicator of the potential for the category once countries grant regulatory approval. …
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Cultivated chicken meat will make its debut at the COP27 climate conference being held in Egypt this month. Good Meat, the cultivated meat division of the Bay Area food tech company Eat Just, is bringing its lab-grown chicken to Sharm…
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Vecan Foods has launched its plant-based meals in India to fill a gap in the market. The company, founded by two moms, Mahima Gupta and Guneet Kaur, is out to help flexitarian consumers embrace healthier eating with homestyle meals. …
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Impossible Foods will retain the patent rights on its novel heme ingredient used for its vegan beef and pork, says the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. But it's not the end to its battle with Motif FoodWorks. Earlier this year, Impossible…
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New research finds consumers are attracted to animal-free dairy when marketing emphasizes the environmental and ethical benefits, but not too much and not too little, either. It's a fine line for consumers weighing the benefits of…
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Wild Earth, the Bay Area pet food company focused on alternative protein sources, has developed a cultivated chicken broth topper aimed at making the category more sustainable. Cultivated meat isn't just novel tech designed to…
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Cellular agriculture producers across the APAC region have come to a consensus: the preferred English-language term for the category is "cultivated." The cultivated meat sector has gone through a number of naming conventions including…
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Finnish food tech company Solar Foods has received regulatory approval for its novel sustainable protein powder made from hydrogen and carbon dioxide. Solein, Solar Foods' new protein, has received approval for sale and consumption from…
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Israel-based Forsea Foods has closed a $5.2 million Seed funding round led by Target Global with backing from The Kitchen FoodTech Hub, PeakBridge VC, Zora Ventures, FoodHack, and Milk & Honey Ventures. Forsea is growing its…
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Beginning next month, Kraft Heinz will roll out its new vegan cheese and mayonnaise in a test run at 30 Giant Eagle stores across Cleveland. It'll expand the products nationally by the end of next year. But are mainstream cheese consumers…
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The vegan shift is in full swing Down Under as Domino's adds Impossible Beef to 700 menus across Australia and New Zealand. All pizzas on the Domino's Australia menu can now add Impossible Beef, the chain announced last week. It comes…
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