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Danish biotech startup Bactolife has teamed up with Healthgevity to bring its Helm line of binding proteins to the US, starting with a Gutgevity supplement for gut wellness. Months after securing €30M to bring its binding proteins to…
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France's Biotech Open Platform, established by Danone, Michelin and others with over €20M in initial funding, has opened an advanced fermentation facility to help companies scale up to industrial production. Two years after its…
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Swiss alternative chocolate startup Food Brewer has debuted Yodel Bites, a cocoa-free chocolate bar made from yellow pea byproducts, on all SBB trains with dining cars across the country. Food Brewer, a Swiss food tech startup backed by…
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Canadian wellness brand Landish has launched a new protein powder combining Plantible Foods's duckweed-derived Rubisco ingredient with four other plant-based proteins. The world's most plentiful protein is making its way into the…
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Dutch startup Those Vegan Cowboys and partner organisations have received €1.2M from an EU-backed fund to create sports nutrition products using its precision-fermented casein protein. Those Vegan Cowboys is expanding the spectrum of…
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Most of the world is moving too slowly to meet food system transformation goals, with the measure for agrifood greenhouse gas emissions exhibiting one of the largest gaps, according to a new report. The vast majority of countries will…
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French malt producer Soufflet Malt and food tech platform Eat the Truth have teamed up to use fermentation to turn malt into flavours that can replace cocoa and alcohol, among other ingredients, in food and beverage products. With…
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The Vegan Society of Ireland has called on the national government to take inspiration from Denmark and set up a national plant-based action plan and fund in the 2027 budget. Ireland is being implored to take a leaf out of Denmark's…
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British vegan brand Gosh is building on the success of its Super Plants sausages with two fibre-packed veggie burgers high in 'plant points'. With fibre gaining ground among Brits, Gosh is adding a new suite of products to its…
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Singapore moved alternative proteins out of the policy spotlight last year; now, its environment minister has now restated their importance for the city-state's long-term food security, although challenges remain. Plant-based and…
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At the World Agri-Food Innovation conference in Beijing, Chinese government officials published a declaration of six consensus objectives agreed upon by the participants to fuel the green transition of the agrifood system. China has…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers École Ducasse's plant-forward courses, BuzzFeed Tasty's vegan series, and a plant-based milk class-action settlement. New…
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Californian plant-based meat pioneer Impossible Foods is making its long-anticipated debut in UK supermarkets, launching a reformulated burger, a beef kofta, whole-muscle chicken pieces, and chicken fries at Tesco. The Impossible Burger…
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French plant-based startup La Vie has expanded its tofu lineup to the UK, launching teriyaki cubes and vegan nuggets at a time when minimally processed, whole-food proteins are all the rage. La Vie has become the latest plant-based meat…
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Scientists have developed a way to grow self-organising bovine tissues from cultured embryonic stem cells to recreate the texture of animal muscle fibres in cultivated meat. Cultivated meat companies are currently focused on scaling up…
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The University of Massachusetts Amherst has kicked off a $120M Future of Food Initiative to establish R&D hubs focused on novel proteins, sustainable food production, precision nutrition, and more. The state of Massachusetts has…
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Spanish agrifood firm Elian has secured €40M ($45.9M) in funding from state-owned fund Cofides to turn Barcelona into a plant-based production hub and boost the EU's food security. Spain's government has made a big bet on plant proteins…
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React Foods has spun out of Aarhus University to commercialise a fermentation technology that turns CO2 and hydrogen into a protein-rich yeast biomass, backed by a loan of 4.2 million kroner ($645,000). The gas protein sector's newest…
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US-based Association for Meat, Poultry and Seafood Innovation and UK company Cultigen Group have teamed up to accelerate progress for the cultivated meat sector. A new cross-Atlantic collaboration aims to help companies boost their…
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UK food producer Heck, best known for its sausages, has launched a range of blended meat products combining 70% animal proteins with 30% vegetables and legumes, months after taking its plant-based chipolatas off the market. The blended…
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Food tech startup High Time Foods is taking on India's protein mania with a new plant-based snacking range that boosts the macros in familiar favourites like samosas, kebabs and momos. Why put protein into a bar when you can use it to…
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