Green Business

The Cultured Hub, a biotech facility run by Swiss food industry giants, has expanded its service to include plant cell culture technology for coffee, cocoa and citrus. Swiss biotech plant The Cultured Hub is broadening its horizons with…
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With livestock emissions a leading cause of climate change, a new sustainability challenge seeks to connect breakthrough innovators with a leading retail network to drive decarbonisation in Asia. Sustainability startups from around the…
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New Zealand startup Leaft Foods has signed a distribution deal to use its Rubisco protein as an egg replacer in baked goods, ahead of a major year of expansion. How would you like a brioche made with alfalfa leaves instead of eggs? …
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The future food industry has seen plenty of victories this year, spanning regulatory approvals, supermarket pledges, and women's wellness. Here are the 10 biggest wins for food tech in 2025. 1) Cultivated meat approvals accelerated …
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Waitrose's mushroom wellington, Offbeast's plant-based ribs, and Typcal's new mycelium factory. New products and launches…
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Insights from food systems changemakers drove our reporting this year. Below, we present our top 10 interviews of the year, featuring an EU lawmaker, a former White House advisor, and the queen of plant-based dairy herself. Our exclusives…
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Dutch cultivated meat pioneer Mosa Meat has secured €15M ($17.6M) in funding to support its regulatory progress and market entry, while dramatically cutting production costs. Following an oversubscribed crowdfunding round and several…
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In a year full of economic uncertainty and consolidation, our readers were most interested in funding and policy stories. Here are Green Queen's 10 most-read future food stories of 2025, featuring Trump's tariffs, Beyond Meat, and Michelin…
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Plant-based companies have witnessed a spike in investment this year, despite declines for cultivated meat and fermentation. Here are the 10 largest future food funding rounds of 2025, featuring animal-free eggs, yeast proteins, and Beyond…
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Dutch cultivated pork maker Meatable is winding down its operations after failing to secure funding, its shareholder has announced. Days after Israel's Believer Meats announced it had ceased operations, another leading cultivated meat…
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Estonian startup Äio has secured a €1.2M ($1.4M) grant from the national innovation agency to produce its yeast-derived Flavoured Fat on a commercial scale. Ahead of a year when it plans to enter the market and launch a Series A funding…
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Ikea's VC arm, Ingka Investments, has bought a majority stake in Sweden's The Green Dairy, which makes plant-based products from oats and fava beans, with an 80 million kronor ($8.6M) investment. Long known for its interest in the…
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Swiss food tech startup Yeastup has opened an industrial-scale facility to repurpose spent brewer's yeast into proteins and functional ingredients. It's now raising another Series A round. Switzerland's Yeastup has opened an…
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US Senator Adam Schiff has introduced a new bill to allocate over $500M in federal R&D funding and create a national strategy for alternative proteins. A new bill calls on the US government to develop a national protein…
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Livekindly Collective has made its latest acquisition in the plant-based meat sector, taking over TiNDLE Foods' foodservice business in the US, the UK and Germany. A month after announcing its plans to divest from the US and focus on…
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The EU's first Biotech Act has proposed to expand the support given to companies looking for novel food approval, but has kept these products out of the scope of regulatory sandboxes. Despite promising a regulatory overhaul for novel…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Emily in Paris's creamer collab, Beyond Meat's tenders, and Formula 1's blended beef trick. New products and launches …
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The Illinois Alternative Protein Innovation Task Force has released a report on how the state can build on its biomanufacturing leadership to strengthen its economy and food sovereignty. Illinois can generate new income streams for…
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The EU has postponed its decision on the proposed ban of meat-like terms on plant-based product labels. Dutch MEP Anna Strolenberg takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations. The European Union simply didn't have enough time to form…
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Chinese startup Joes Future Food has built the country's largest pilot plant for cultivated meat, after completing the world’s first scaled trial production run of its pork. In a sign of China's biotech prowess, Nanjing-based Joes…
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A new MIT study calculates the climate impact of the live music industry, identifying fan travel and food and beverage as the biggest sources of emissions. How audiences travel to concerts and the kind of food they're served have the…
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