Future Foods

Food tech startup California Cultured and UC Davis have partnered on a project to reduce the production costs of cell-based chocolate, backed by $2.8M in US government funding. Months after obtaining clearance to sell its cell-based…
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Food industry behemoth Cargill and ethical pantry startup Voyage Foods are bringing their cocoa-free chocolate range, NextCoa, to North America. Two years after forming a partnership to help decarbonise the cocoa industry with bean-free…
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Italian food company Forza10 has debuted the Coolty Meat brand of cultivated dog food, made with cell-cultured protein from the Czech startup BeneMeat. Cultivated meat is rapidly entering the pet food market. After launches in the UK…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Beyond Meat's partnership with Karen Carney, a wave of British launches, and Savor's bakery debut. New products and…
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US company Bond Pet Foods has obtained a 'no questions' letter from the FDA, enabling it to sell the precision-fermented lamb protein it developed with Hill's Pet Nutrition for use in dog food. Five years after they first joined forces,…
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Cultivated meat startup SuperMeat has raised $6M in fresh financing, as part of a targeted $10M Series A4 round, and filed for regulatory approval in Switzerland. Six months after securing $3.5M in funding, Israeli food tech startup…
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Mars Petcare has launched another edition of its global pet food innovation programme for sustainable proteins and fats, with an amplified focus on Asia-Pacific. The market for sustainable pet food solutions has never been hotter. …
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Finnish startups Enifer and Rovio Pet Foods have teamed up to launch a semi-moist dog treat made with Enifer's Pekilo mycoprotein ingredient. Enifer, a food tech startup producing proteins from mycelium, has entered the canine nutrition…
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Molecular farming pioneer Moolec Science has completed the first phase of the industrialisation of its GLA-rich safflower oil, and has kicked off a new sowing campaign and a move into renewable energy. Moolec Science, a company using…
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Better Juice, a startup that uses microbial enzymes to turn fruit sugars into dietary fibre and non-digestible molecules, has been acquired by Dutch juice giant Prodalim. The number-one ingredient Americans want to avoid this year is,…
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Oterra has teamed up with Debut Bio to develop and scale a natural alternative to Red 40, a petroleum-derived food dye linked to ill health in children. The food industry's reckoning with the use of artificial dyes continues with a new…
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Australian precision fermentation startup Eden Brew has self-affirmed GRAS status for its cow-free casein protein in the US, and pivoted its immediate focus to health and supplements. Just months after filing the first regulatory…
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Californian startup Biosphere has received a Department of Defense grant worth $9M to build portable bioreactors and produce gas-fermented proteins for the US Army. Despite the Trump administration's love affair with meat, it's betting…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Taco Bell's Beyond Meat partnership, Sproud's sales and emissions records, and a wave of crowdfunding campaigns. New…
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German food tech startup MicroHarvest will roll out 15 new products with partners across Europe by the end of June, all fuelled by its waste-upcycled microbial protein. Climate-friendly pet food has been on the ascendance over the last…
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As future food regulation progresses in Japan, local startup Organoid Farm has completed a 200-litre demo run for its cultivated beef, ahead of opening a new production plant in 2028. Japan's Organoid Farm has successfully conducted one…
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The US Army has issued a bid to companies and researchers to develop technologies to manufacture alternative proteins for soldiers on the front lines. A year ahead of the introduction of vegan options in the military meals programme,…
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Wise to the climate-damaged realities of the cocoa industry, Mars is taking major steps to decarbonise its offerings, from climate-smart farming to bean-free chocolates. The world's largest chocolate company is feeling the bite of…
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US food tech startup Fudi Protein has secured early-stage funding to commercialise its alfalfa-based Rubisco protein as an alternative to egg whites, dairy and other "subpar plant-based proteins". Wisconsin-based Fudi Protein has…
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Canada's Pinnacle Food Group has signed an MoU to explore establishing an Open Yeast Platform hub for precision fermentation in Hong Kong. Days after developing a breakthrough fermentation process to create recombinant whey proteins,…
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Swiss food tech startup Yeastup has signed a distribution agreement with DKSH to sell its beer-waste-derived UpFiber Beta-Glucan ingredient in the DACH region. Months after opening an industrial-scale facility to produce proteins from…
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