Future Foods

Boston-based Ginkgo Bioworks has teamed up with Slovenia's Acies Bio to scale up production of enhanced Aspergillus niger strains for use in industrial-scale protein solutions. Ginkgo Bioworks is ramping up industry access to its…
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Israeli cultivated meat startup Aleph Farms has obtained regulatory approval for its beef steak in Singapore, and plans to launch the product in the first half of 2027. Cultivated beef could land on Singapore's restaurant menus as early…
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Canadian food tech company Botaneco is using a water-based oleosome platform to produce superior plant-based fats that rival dairy and conventional supply-strained options. Could water be the key that unlocks the potential of…
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The Netherlands Enterprise Agency has committed up to €400,000 ($465,000) in funding for a Partners for International Business cluster to help companies develop blended proteins for the meat-reducing French market. As blended meat makes…
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China is repurposing its pharmaceutical manufacturing network to produce novel foods for the global alternative protein industry, strengthening its bid to become a leader in this future-friendly space. In China, the path to tech…
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The Transfarmation Project has opened a demonstration hub in Iowa, turning a former pig factory farm into a space for growing specialty mushrooms. At America's "ground zero" for factory farming, one former hog operation has replaced…
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Ferments du Futur, a public-private research initiative to industrialise fermentation technologies for future food production in France, has received a €19.1M ($21.8M) funding boost from a government agency. France is bolstering its…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Daiya's protein mac and cheese, Nueva Pescanova's aborted octopus farm plan, and Wildtype's crowdfunding success. New…
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US agrifood tech startup SCO2 has secured $2.65M in seed funding to advance its supercritical carbon dioxide extraction tech, which can recover valuable compounds from food waste for use in various industries. SCO2, a Minnesota-based…
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Californian startup BMC Ingredients (formerly The Better Meat Co) has secured a letter of no objection from Health Canada, enabling it to sell its Rhiza mycoprotein in the country. US mycoprotein player BMC Ingredients is expanding its…
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The multinational Salina project has kicked off with €7M in funding from the EU to create scalable macroalgae cultivation systems and develop high-value products for the food, cosmetics, and biomaterial sectors. A new project aims to…
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Californian agtech startup NuCicer has introduced Nuchi, a new class of chickpeas with 50% more protein and 25% less fat than conventional varieties. The protein craze has birthed its newest tech-led innovation: ultra-high-protein…
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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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Australian startup All G has launched its precision-fermented bovine lactoferrin in the US, just as it plans a second facility and expects to bring its human lactoferrin ingredient to market within six months. Months after securing…
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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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Israeli food tech startup Plantopia has secured $9M in funding to establish a molecular farming facility to produce casein proteins within sprouted oats. Plantopia, a molecular farming firm growing dairy proteins in oats, has raised $9M…
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A new analysis suggests that waste-fermented microbial lipid alternatives to fats like palm oil and animal fats can already compete with premium cocoa butter on cost. The alternative fat space has been heating up rapidly over the last…
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The EU has added inulin-propionate ester, a fibre ingredient that can stimulate the body's natural GLP-1 response, to its list of approved novel foods, enabling companies to sell the additive in food products. As weight-loss medications…
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Italian cocoa-free chocolate maker Foreverland has expanded its portfolio with a no-added-sugar, fibre-rich lineup to align with current consumer nutrition trends. Four months after investors pumped $7M into its cocoa-free solutions,…
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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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Austrian-American food tech startup BioCraft Pet Nutrition has published a publicly available regulatory dossier for cultivated meat ingredients in pet food, proposing a minimum safety disclosure standard for the industry. To advance…
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