Future Foods

Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Bel Group's Stranger Things-inspired vegan cheese, Planta's return, and Veganuary's six-month poll. New products and…
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Gates Foundation and Novo Nordisk Foundation have extended the Acetate Consortium initiative by another two years with a $25.6M investment to turn CO2 into proteins. It was in June 2023 that Bill Gates's philanthropic foundation teamed…
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Novel fermentation methods to produce alternatives to meat, dairy and eggs could add £9.8B annually to the UK economy by 2050, new analysis shows. Modern approaches to an age-old food production technique could bring in an economic…
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Finland's Solar Foods has developed an egg- and dairy-free mayonnaise made with Solein, its signature protein derived from CO2. It's also three times cheaper. In response to the egg industry's supply chain and price volatilities,…
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Finnish startup Onego Bio has secured a 'no questions' letter from the US FDA, strengthening the regulatory status of its precision-fermented egg protein. As the US mulls changes to how new foods are regulated, some companies are…
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Dutch food tech startup Revyve has secured €24M ($28M) in Series B financing to scale up its functional yeast proteins to replace eggs and ultra-processed additives. Food producers need an urgent solution to soaring egg prices and…
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Dutch fermentation startup The Protein Brewery has raised €30M ($35M) in Series B funding to bring its fungi-derived Fermotein ingredient to market. It's also closing in on European approval. Breda-based food tech player The Protein…
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Dutch firm Vegan Visboer has expanded beyond animal-free offerings with a new blended salmon offering, combining the fish with mycoprotein and plants. Blended proteins are on an unstoppable streak, and the Netherlands is at the heart of…
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Dutch startup Time-Travelling Milkman, which uses sunflower seeds to replace dairy fats, has raised €2M ($2.3M) to support the launch of next-gen cream cheeses and desserts. Continuing what has been a bumper week for sustainable fat…
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German cereal producer Barnhouse has launched a new low-sugar vegan granola with Endless Food Co's cocoa-free chocolate alternative. In Germany, granola giant Barnhouse's latest innovation spotlights a future-friendly chocolate…
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Singaporean sustainable fats startup Terra Oleo has emerged from stealth with a $3.1M funding round and selection in Breakthrough Energy's 2025 Fellows cohort. Turning agro-industrial waste into sustainable alternatives to palm oil and…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Two River's lion's mane broth, Planta's acquisition, and animal-free egg legal battles. New products and launches US…
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NoPalm Ingredients will upcycle dairy giant Milcobel's whey permeate into its fermentation-derived palm oil alternatives and explore establishing a commercial factory by 2028. Dutch startup NoPalm Ingredients has secured a deal to…
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A new study by Sweden's Ironic Biotech shows that its precision-fermented heme protein absorbs iron 65 times better than lactoferrin, and at comparable levels to red meat. In a welcome development for the supplement industry and…
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Danish startup Summ Ingredients (formerly Nutrumami) has secured €1.7M ($2M) in funding to bring its multifunctional fermented protein FermiPro to market. Having spent years in the fine-dining space as a culinary director and…
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Belgium's largest supermarket chain, Colruyt Group, has introduced a new blended beef mince product, following similar launches from Lidl, Albert Heijn and Aldi this year. Europe's retailers are betting the farm on blended meat. …
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British vegan startup This has added a deli meat SKU while expanding the whole-food-championing This is Super Superfood line it launched earlier this year. As sales of plant-based meat continue to weaken, some of the industry's leading…
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Israeli startup Meala has debuted a pea protein powder that can replicate the multifunctionality of eggs in baked goods, offering a solution to the avian-flu-induced crisis. With egg prices reaching an all-time high in the US and a…
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Protein Industries Canada has contributed to a C$32.5M ($24M) project where two local startups will create future-friendly proteins from fava beans and mycelium. The Canadian government is deepening its bet on alternative proteins, with…
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German food tech player Nosh.bio has launched a blended beef mince product, combining meat with its koji protein. As blended meat engulfs Europe's protein sector, one German startup is betting on an ancient fungus to expand the…
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Strauss Group will launch cow-free milk and cheese using Imagindairy's whey protein in Israel, which is made from microbes via precision fermentation. Israeli food giant Strauss Group has unveiled a new range of dairy products that…
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