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Chipotle founder Steve Ells is opening Kernel, a new fast-casual meatless restaurant concept leveraging robot chefs and minimising waste. With the first location set to open in Manhattan next year, it marks a return to the foodservice…
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The below conversation is the transcript of the second episode of the podcast miniseries Green Queen in Conversation: Cultivated Meat Pioneers featuring Didier Toubia, founder and CEO of Aleph Farms, interviewed by show host Sonalie…
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The impact of climate change – whether that's floods, droughts, extreme heat or cold – is ravaging crops and threatening our food supply. Here are 15 food crops that are facing shortages and uncertain futures due to the global crisis. …
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UK vegan pizzeria Purezza has acquired a majority stake in London-based vegan cheesemonger La Fauxmagerie in a merger, with the former looking after the plant-based cheese brand's sales. Purezza head of sales Mitch Lee speaks to Green…
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A group of 36 inaugural members have joined Future Ocean Foods, a global association to help advance the alternative seafood sector, across the plant-based, cultivated and fermentation verticals. Founder Marissa Bronfman speaks to Green…
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CEO and co-founder of Californian hybrid meat company SciFi Foods Joshua March on alt meat price parity, why he's all in on combining plant proteins with cultivated meat instead of conventional, and consumers' disregard for industry terms.…
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Shanghai-based cellular agriculture startup CellX, known for cultivated meat, has ventured into mycelium fermentation to expand its portfolio of sustainable proteins. The company plans to use fermented proteins in meat and dairy…
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Impossible Foods has announced that its Beef Lite alternative has been certified by the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Heart-Check Food Certification Program, becoming just the second plant-based meat company to have an accredited…
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There have been a host of developments in the cultivated pet food sector of late, headlined by Czech startup Bene Meat Technologies officially listing its feed on the EU feed register, which it says clears it for sale. Prague-based…
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Nūmi, a French startup making breast milk from cell-cultured mammary glands, has raised €3M in pre-seed funding to expand its R&D and recruit new scientists. It plans to file for regulatory approval in the US first, followed by Europe…
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In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers a host of plant-based dairy news, a bunch of awards and a Chilean vegan…
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Italian vegan cheese startup Dreamfarm has closed a funding round of €5M aimed at building a production hub for its patented process to make a healthier plant-based cheese alternative. Its fermented almond mozzarella and spreadable cheese…
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Weeks after opening its D2C online marketplace, Colorado-based mycelium meat startup Meati has expanded its line of meat alternatives with new vegan chicken nuggets and spiced takes on its existing steaks and cutlets. The brand has also…
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Matthew Kenney, the vegan author and celebrity chef behind Plant Food + Wine, is expanding his empire to China with food halls inspired by his Plant City F&B concept, with the help of global scale-up firm The Wellness Agency. The…
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A year after announcing its carbon labelling partnership with research firm HowGood, catering company Chartwells Higher Education has revealed that there has been an increase in students looking for climate-friendly meals in US…
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Despite hopes for a better second half of 2023, Beyond Meat has announced a 26.5% decline in quarterly sales to $75M, while further cutting its annual sales forecast and employing a cost-cutting programme that will see 8% of its workforce…
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Shalom Daniel, CEO of mycelium meat company Mush Foods, tells Green Queen about why the brand's ingredient is ideal for blended meat applications, why anti-meat investors believe flex meat is the solution, and its mission to halve global…
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Silicon Valley startup The EVERY Co, which makes precision-fermented egg proteins, recently collaborated with Colombia's largest CPG food company. It signposts the company's increased retail focus, which its CEO Arturo Elizondo and…
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Singapore is host to Rethink's Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit this week, where it's bolstering its role as a leader in the APAC food tech ecosystem. Off the back of a newly announced food safety bill that will advance novel food…
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Nestlé has announced the launch of three new vegan white fish SKUs in Europe and Asia, as it becomes the latest brand to release a plant-based seafood product to cater to the growing demand for seafood and sustainable proteins. Nestlé…
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In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers an upcycled pasta partnership at Cambridge, the UK getting into…
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