Future Foods

Are protein shots the next big functional beverage trend? Dutch fermentation firm Vivici thinks so, positioning its animal-free whey ingredient as the ideal base for these products. Since the start of the pandemic, the number of…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers organic plant-based kids' milk at Walmart, cellular aquaculture AI partnerships, a UK Veganuary record, and US foodservice…
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Most of our nutrition toolkit was never designed around female biology, says New York startup Helaina, which ferments microbes to create breast milk proteins for a new dawn for women's wellness. Americans can now buy vegan protein…
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Despite ambitious sustainability targets and a booming food-tech sector focused on plant-based protein, Switzerland's transition to a future-ready food system is being undermined by deeply entrenched government policies and subsidies that…
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Can fungi help humans live better and longer? Dutch mycoprotein startup The Protein Brewery is hoping to do just that by promoting multiple pathways of healthy ageing. In Western Europe, people born in 2024 are expected to live 17 years…
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The world’s most followed influencer just tasted chicken made from cells on camera, giving cultivated meat the kind of "MrBeast moment” that could reshape how millions of young consumers think about the future of protein. In a…
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German cultivated protein startup Innocent Meat has raised €6M ($7M) to scale up and obtain regulatory approval for its products, which it aims to bring to market in 2028. Innocent Meat, a German firm producing a range of cultivated…
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Denmark's Octarine Bio has raised €5M ($5.8M) in new funding to launch precision-fermented pigments for food, textiles, and personal care this year. In yet another sign of the post-petroleum dye era, Danish startup Octarine Bio has…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Just Egg's Germany debut, Oatly's latest fashion collab, and HappyCow's 2026 vegan index. New products and launches …
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Israeli cultivated meat startup Aleph Farms has partnered with contract manufacturer Cell Agritech and set up an entity in Singapore to serve as its Asia-Pacific hub. As it awaits regulatory approval from the Singapore Food Agency,…
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A district judge has denied Texas's motion to dismiss a lawsuit by two food tech startups over its ban on cultivated meat, allowing the case to move forward. Four months after Upside Foods and Wildtype sued Texas for its ban on…
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Canada's Maia Farms will expand its specialty mushroom and mycelium ingredients with a focus on functional and nutritional support, having secured C$3.75M ($2.7M) in new funding. Vancouver-based food tech startup Maia Farms is…
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Backed by a $2.1M state grant, Tufts University will open a future food innovation hub this year, with an open-source cell bank for cultivated meat research. An upcoming centre at Tufts University's Medford campus offers "truly…
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Seoul-based Wake has secured new funding for its Sans beanless coffee, which marries traditional Korean fermentation techniques with "molecular hacking". As climate change makes bean-free formats increasingly essential to the coffee…
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Plant-based giant Beyond Meat has diversified past food for the first time, launching a line of clear protein drinks called Beyond Immerse to support gut and muscle health. Ethan Brown wasn't kidding. It was in July last year when…
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At the forefront of the global future food ecosystem, Green Queen founding editor Sonalie Figueiras sets out the most important trends to watch every year. Here are her predictions for 2026. As the Green Queen editor-in-chief, part of…
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Australian national research agency CSIRO and the UK's University of Leeds are developing an AI tool that can convert food waste into sustainable protein, in a project funded by the Bezos Earth Fund. Replacing ruminant meat with more…
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German engineering company GEA has teamed up with Bio Fermentation Factory to deliver a precision and biomass fermentation line at the latter's open-access facility in the Netherlands. When it comes to the future of food, open-access…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Beyond Meat's new chicken products, Upside Foods's cultivated meat tasting, and Shake Shack's vegan menu. New products…
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Researchers in the UK have devised a method to turn the yeast left over from beer production into edible scaffolds for affordable cultivated meat. When it comes to meat, nose-to-tail eating could give way to a "pint to plate" approach,…
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Amid the GLP-1 boom, Impossible Foods has partnered with Equii to cater to America's protein demand by combining plant-based meat with grain-based pastas and breads. Days after the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans emphasised greater…
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