Future Foods

As domestic appetite for dairy products grows, Chinese startup Changing Biotech is making milk proteins using precision fermentation to address this burgeoning demand. Changing Biotech, China's first precision fermentation dairy…
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With more than €4.2 million raised to date, Swedish vegan seafood company Hooked Foods is now raising €10 million in a Series A that it says will help it expand its reach across European markets. "We are one of the very few plant-based…
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German food tech company Bluu Seafood, is showing off its first cell-based fish as it readies for regulatory approval processes across Europe, Asia, and North America. Bluu is the first European-based cultivated fish producer to reveal…
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We all know what happened in February when the U.S. temporarily halted imports of avocados from Mexico just ahead of Super Bowl Sunday. Could a sustainable faux avocado be the answer to that and avocado environmental impact? Meet Ecovado. …
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Could multinational food giant Nestlé become the first name in vegan fast food burgers? With its newest partnership with plant-based burger chain Nomoo, that could be the case. California-based vegan burger restaurant Nomoo says it…
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Bay Area vegan meat brand Impossible Foods is debuting its chicken nuggets in Asia with a Hong Kong launch this month. Impossible Foods entered the chicken wars last year with its vegan nuggets across the U.S. Burger King trialed the…
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Marking the largest single fundraising for food tech in Japan, vertical farming giant Spread has secured $30 million (¥4 billion) in its Series A. The Kyoto-based vertical farming operation is not new to the food space. It's been…
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U.S. plant-based milk sales grew by 6.4 percent to nearly $2.3 billion in the 52 weeks ending June 12, 2022, with oat milk poised for continued dominance. While almond milk is still the plant-based milk category leader, with more than…
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Atlanta's seven-acre farm, where anyone can just enter and pick up fruits and vegetables, is fighting hunger and tackling food insecurity. Estimated to be the largest free food forest in the U.S., the city-owned Food Forest at Browns…
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Gavan Technologies, an Israel-based food tech startup, says it has developed a "waste-free" extraction method for plant-based protein. “Our new, multistep technological platform enables us to take any plant source, isolate and extricate…
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New findings published by ProVeg Netherlands show pricing between meat and alternative protein is shrinking. ProVeg Netherlands Worked with Questionmark on the pricing analysis across Dutch grocery stores. The researchers looked at 36…
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Singapore's Shiok Meats and Vietnam's Minh Phu Seafood have signed a memo of understanding to develop a combined R&D facility to help bring cultivated seafood to Asia. The new R&D facility will be based in Vietnam in a move…
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No longer a guilty pleasure—vegan ice cream is now a way to combat food waste, according to Austrian food tech startup Wunderkern. The Vienna and Lower Austria-based Wunderkern, founded in 2019 by Michael Beitl, Luca Fichtinger, Fabian…
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Over the next three years, DayDayCook and Brinc will invest $10 million in 45 food tech companies working to address global food sustainability, specifically bringing game-changing tech to Asia's food systems. Applications are now being…
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Are lab-grown oysters coming to a plate near you? That's the hope for Nikita Michelsen and marine biologist Joey Peters, the co-founders behind the cultivated oyster meat seafood startup, Pearlita Foods. For now, though, they're starting…
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African nations are expected to embrace a shift away from conventional meat for more alternative options as alternative proteins become more widely available by mid-century. By 2050, a quarter of the world's population will be African.…
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"Normal, or with meat?" That's the question customers at an Austrian Burger King will hear from now on as the chain brings plant-based meat to the forefront as the "normal" version. The majority of Burger King Austria's menu will…
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Colorado-based Meati Foods has closed a $150 million Series C funding round. The round, led by Revolution Growth and Chipotle's Cultivate Next Fund, will help the mushroom-focused brand accelerate its production, develop new products, and…
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Singapore-based TiNDLE is debuting its vegan chicken in Tokyo with launches at several Schmatz German beer pub locations this month. Starting this week, Tokyo residents and visitors can test-drive TiNDLE's vegan nine-ingredient chicken…
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Shaka Harry, an Indian-based plant-based meat brand, has raised $2 million in a Seed funding round led by Better Bite Ventures, Blue Horizon, and Panthera Peak among others, including celebrity chef Manu Chandra. Designed around the…
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Meatballs made from cultured meat are ready for commercial scale—and they're more nutritious than conventional meatballs, say Chinese researchers. Researchers from Tsinghua University and Nanjing Agricultural University say they have…
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