Green Business

UK startup Naturbeads has received a €4.1M ($4.8M) EU grant to support the construction of a new factory in Italy to produce cellulose-based alternatives to microplastics. Cellulose materials are attracting investor attention in Europe,…
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Beyond Meat experienced a 15% decline in sales in Q1 2026, with hopes of a turnaround hinged on retail launches of its plant protein drinks and mycelium steak. After posting its worst financial year as a public company in 2025, this…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Taco Bell's Beyond Meat partnership, Sproud's sales and emissions records, and a wave of crowdfunding campaigns. New…
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A court in Wisconsin has thrown out Onego Bio's lawsuit against The Every Company in the state for lack of personal jurisdiction. But a parallel lawsuit between the animal-free egg startups will continue in Delaware. The patent lawsuit…
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The EU expects no further delays to the December 2026 deadline for the deforestation regulation; it suggested this a week after US policymakers urged the Commission to implement the rule in its current form. Amid mixed messaging from…
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Legacy plant protein player Yves Veggie Cuisine is set to return to Canadian shelves a year after it was discontinued, following its acquisition by meat giant Maple Leaf Foods. One of the world's oldest plant-based meat brands is making…
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A group of bipartisan Congress members have reintroduced a bill that would ban the sale of plant-based and cultivated proteins in the US if they use meat-like terms on their product labels. In the 2023-24 legislative session, a group of…
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Wise to the climate-damaged realities of the cocoa industry, Mars is taking major steps to decarbonise its offerings, from climate-smart farming to bean-free chocolates. The world's largest chocolate company is feeling the bite of…
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Amsterdam has become the world's first capital city to ban advertisements promoting meat or fossil fuels, in light of the city's targets to increase plant-based consumption and lower emissions. Billboards and metro stations in Amsterdam…
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Volume sales of legumes like beans and pulses are predicted to outpace meat in all but one region through to 2030, with the demand for protein showing no signs of tapering off. Beans have been at the heart of food discourse over the…
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US food tech startup Fudi Protein has secured early-stage funding to commercialise its alfalfa-based Rubisco protein as an alternative to egg whites, dairy and other "subpar plant-based proteins". Wisconsin-based Fudi Protein has…
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Canada's Pinnacle Food Group has signed an MoU to explore establishing an Open Yeast Platform hub for precision fermentation in Hong Kong. Days after developing a breakthrough fermentation process to create recombinant whey proteins,…
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Swiss food tech startup Yeastup has signed a distribution agreement with DKSH to sell its beer-waste-derived UpFiber Beta-Glucan ingredient in the DACH region. Months after opening an industrial-scale facility to produce proteins from…
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US investment firm KKR is exploring a $10B sale of Flora Food Group, the spreads business it acquired from Unilever in 2018, after abandoning a plan to make its entire offering plant-based. The company behind Country Crock, I Can't…
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Swedish oat milk giant Oatly built on a successful 2025 with 15.6% hike in revenues in Q1 2026, recording its first period of growth in North America in more than a year. Oatly's Gen Z-targeting, taste-first playbook is "beginning to…
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German biotech startup Primogene has raised €4.1M ($4.8M) to commercialise its bioactive molecules, which can replace functional ingredients in infant and elderly nutrition and personal care. Leipzig-based firm Primogene has secured…
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China's Nanjing Agricultural University and Joes Future Food hosted the 2026 Global Forum on Cultured Meat last week, bringing together future food experts from across the world. For cultivated meat to succeed, cross-sector…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Tiba Tempeh's protein bites, Prefer's Brazilian bean-free coffee collab, and Garden Gourmet's vegan tilt. New products…
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A new report explores how China is aligning policy, capital and technology to become the world's alternative protein capital, following its lead from the green energy and mobility sectors. China is in "year zero" of a food systems…
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Private-label brands make up 82% of processed meat sales in the UK, but only 15% of plant-based alternatives – and retailers risk losing out on billions if they don't promote protein diversification. British supermarkets could…
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A majority of cafés in the UK would consider offering oat milk as the default option in milk-based beverages, if consumer demand exists and wholesale prices are lowered. How would you feel if your local coffee shop served your flat…
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