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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Huel's new meal replacement drinks, Oatly's matcha collab with Lidl, and a Gen Z dietary survey in India. New products…
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US biomanufacturing firm Biosphere has acquired fellow gas fermentation specialist NovoNutrients, a year after the latter put its assets up for sale. Fresh off a $9M Department of Defense grant for its gas fermentation technology,…
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US non-profit Food System Innovations has launched a Sustainable Protein Action Lab to bridge the research funding gap and help future food companies accelerate product development. To make the protein transition a success, companies…
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Beyond Meat is finally bringing its whole-cut mycelium steak to retail shelves in the US, starting with Wegmans and H-E-B. A year after introducing its whole-cut steak in US restaurants, alternative protein pioneer Beyond Meat is…
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Protein Industries Canada has funded a new project to create an AI platform that can make fermentation cheaper and more efficient, and "unlock new value" from agricultural byproducts. The Canadian government has announced its latest…
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Dutch food tech startup The Protein Brewery has closed an €18M ($20.5M) extension of its Series B round to expand production of its Fermotein mycoprotein and support its EU launch. Days after securing the first novel food approval for…
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Portuguese firm GRA Nutra has released a new fermentation-derived beta-carotene colour for food and beverages in the US, where clean-label dyes are all the rage. As food manufacturers race to get artificial dyes out of their supply…
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Finnish food tech startup Perfat Technologies has launched Perfat Soft, a sunflower-oil-based oleogel that can replace butter and palm oil across a range of applications. Entering the flourishing fat-alternative space, Helsinki-based…
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US non-profit Food System Innovations has launched an AI-led Food Intelligence Lab to create better-tasting alternative proteins with an open-source model, in an effort backed by the Bezos Earth Fund. The use of artificial intelligence…
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Germany's Planet A Foods has introduced a no-added-sugar version of its cocoa-free chocolate, ChoViva, to meet the demand for "healthier indulgence". Already selling to some of the world's biggest confectionery companies, Planet A Foods…
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A bipartisan bill from the US House of Representatives is aiming to restrict the labelling of a carbon-derived butter developed by Savor, which ascribes the measure partly to a "misunderstanding" of its technology. Congress members from…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Kevin Bacon's Beansday campaign, Devious Foods's protein seasonings, and The Vegetarian Butcher Collective's new CEO. New…
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Australian cultivated meat leader Vow has named Alex Andrews as its new CEO, with co-founder George Peppou becoming an executive director, as the startup cuts jobs and eyes new verticals for its cell-culture technology. A year after…
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A new study outlines consumer attitudes towards breakthrough scientific technologies, including cultivated meat, whose potential is greatest among Gen Z. Gen Z was touted as the climate generation, behind movements like Fridays for…
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In a project backed by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, scientists at the University of Copenhagen have extracted protein from rapeseed oil press cake, which could be used to make meat and dairy alternatives. Scientists are betting on an…
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German manufacturing giant Döhler Group has acquired Nukoko, a UK startup producing cocoa-free chocolate from fava beans. UK food tech startup Nukoko, which is aiming to transform the meaning of "bean to bar" chocolate with its…
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Dutch precision fermentation startup Vivici has secured €12.5M ($14.4M) in funding from the European Innovation Council to scale up and expand its footprint for cow-free whey proteins. A year after raising €32.5M in a Series A round,…
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Finnish gas protein firm Solar Foods has secured €77.8M ($89.1M) in grants and loan financing from Business Finland to construct its industrial-scale factory. Shortly after making its US debut, Solar Foods has received a comprehensive…
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Dutch fermentation startup The Protein Brewery's Fermotein ingredient has become the first whole-food mycelium protein to receive novel food approval in the EU. The EU has just granted its first approval for a novel mycelium ingredient,…
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In Europe's two largest markets for alternative proteins, around three in five consumers are open to buying blended meat if their taste and price meet expectations. Last year, a large survey in the UK and Germany found that half of…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Oatly's FIFA World Cup café, Alpro's brownie-flavoured yoghurt, and Time Magazine's GreenTech list. New products and…
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