Future Foods

New Zealand's Daisy Lab, known for its cow-free whey proteins like lactoferrin, has been acquired by UK fermentation firm Mycofeast. British fermentation specialist Mycofeast, which makes functional ingredients for human and animal…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Oddlygood's caramel-waffle milk, Rival Foods's low-sodium vegan steak, and Blue Bottle's oat milk U-turn. New products…
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The World Health Organization and the Good Food Institute APAC have signed a multi-year partnership to explore the role of alternative proteins in public health policies in Asia-Pacific. The planet's leading authority on public health…
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Food tech startups Ever After Foods and Roslin Technologies have worked together to produce structured cultivated meat tissue with dramatically higher protein concentration and record levels of productivity. Two cultivated meat startups…
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A palatability study has found that the same number of cats prefer BioCraft Pet Nutrition's cultivated mouse meat as those who choose conventional chicken. Cats can't decide what they like more: meat made from mouse cells in…
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The Abu Dhabi government has developed a framework for companies to conduct public tastings of novel foods, such as cultivated meat and precision-fermented proteins, before securing full UAE approval. The UAE's capital has taken a major…
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The European Food Safety Authority has highlighted the need to sustain scientific expertise and ensure regulatory clarity to avoid approval delays for novel foods like cultivated meat. The EU must strengthen its regulatory readiness…
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Most consumers in urban India are willing to buy cultivated meat, viewing it as a healthy protein source, with affordability and trust critical for widespread adoption. In one of the world's largest meat-eating countries – by sheer…
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Mercy for Animals has ranked the US's 25 largest burger chains on their plant-based options, with McDonald's among the lowest-scoring businesses and facing calls to expand its meat-free offerings. McDonald's, the world's largest…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Oh Mungood's UK debut, Accro's higher-protein meat alternative, and One Planet Pizza's frozen meals. New products and…
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UK company Cultigen Group has joined its marketplace, research and pricing platforms for cultivated meat into a Research Layer for scientists. Cultigen Group, which is building a series of tools to help cultivated meat innovators…
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French food tech startup Edonia has raised €15M ($16.8M) to open an industrial facility for its minimally processed spirulina protein mince, after securing €30M in pre-orders. Paris-based microalgae innovator Edonia has closed a €15M…
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A Dutch public-private partnership has led to the formation of the EcoFerm Consortium, which aims to develop continuous precision fermentation technologies to scale up alternative proteins economically. Cost-effective scale-up is the…
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US startup BMC Ingredients has published a paper highlighting the presence of longevity-linked compounds in its fibre-rich Rhiza mycoprotein. With healthy ageing joining protein and fibre as a core influencer of consumers' food choices,…
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A research team at the UK's University of Sheffield is pairing a Darwinian evolution approach with artificial intelligence to speed up the development of precision-fermented and next-gen plant proteins. Fermentation, evolution, and…
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The Netherlands's Wageningen University & Research has inaugurated a new R&D facility to accelerate the scale-up of sustainable foods like proteins, reduce food waste, and develop eco-friendly packaging. One of the world's…
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Japanese biotech startup Spiber has launched a contract service for strain development and fermentation manufacturing, targeting next-gen proteins for use as food ingredients, industrial enzymes, and more. Spiber, a firm known for its…
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The UK's Food Standards Agency has published its third batch of guidance documents to support cultivated meat companies, this time focused on regulatory approval and growth media. As cultivated meat firms grapple with a new trade deal…
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Vicky Bond, CEO of research non-profit Madre Brava, argues that the future of food looks encouraging following this year's NYC Climate Week. Food was a thing at New York Climate Week 2026. This year, amid some concern that it had…
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US scientific assessment company SciPinion has launched SciBridge, an AI-enabled toolkit that provides food producers with a method to prove their ingredients' similarity to an FDA-cleared precedent in minutes. With the US Food and Drug…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers The Vegetarian Butcher's burgers in the UK, another yeast protein in India, and fluctuating plant-based milk sales. New…
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