Future Food Quick Bites: Mung Bean Bits, Accro Protein Strips & Hackney Ad Ban
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Oh Mungood’s UK debut, Accro’s higher-protein meat alternative, and One Planet Pizza’s frozen meals.
New products and launches
Swedish plant-based food brand Oh Mungood has entered the UK through distributor Albion Fine Foods. Its mung bean bits are already on the menu of salad chain Holy Green, which recently opened its first London restaurant.
Fellow Swedish firm Mö Foods has gained new listings for its oat milk cheeses, with ICA Gruppen carrying its chèvre alternative across Sweden, and Rewe stocking the chèvre and feta in Germany.
In more news from Sweden, mycoprotein startup Smaqo has introduced its blended meat range to e-grocer Mylla, following its brick-and-mortar debut at ICA Gruppen earlier this year.
In Denmark, Naturli’ has launched a new organic plant-based mince with 18% protein from sunflower seeds, fava beans, and yellow peas, created in partnership with Organic Plant Protein and Hilton Foods. It’s available at supermarkets including Bilka, Føtex, Netto, Coop 365, Kvickly, SuperBrugsen, and Rema 1000.
French plant-based meat brand Accro, owned by Nxtfood, has unveiled a higher-protein chicken strips SKU. It will deliver 50g of protein from yellow peas and wheat per 180g pack.
In the UK, plant-based protein startup This has rolled out ready-to-eat This Isn’t Picnic Eggs, which contain 74% less saturated fat than the conventional version and can be found at Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and Ocado for £2.95 per 140g pack.
British vegan food startup One Planet Pizza has diversified from pizza into frozen meals, rolling out tofu tikka masala with rice, mac and cheese, and vegetable and lentil ragù lasagna in 276 Asda stores this month. Its pepperoni and margherita pizzas, meanwhile, will now also be stocked at all 207 Iceland’s Food Warehouse stores.
And Singaporean food tech startup Prefer has expanded the presence of its bean-free coffee through its ongoing partnership with Le Tach Vending, which stocked its canned drinks in machines at MRT stations across the city. Now, they’re being launched at the National University of Singapore and the Singapore University of Technology and Design, totalling 47 vending machines.
Company, finance, policy and research developments
Czech cultivated meat startup BeneMeat welcomed biomanufacturing giant Zeta to its offices in Prague, with the latter showing interest in the former’s tech, production and development facility, its progress, and future plans.
In East London, Zoë Garbett, mayor of Hackney Council, has pledged to eliminate meat and dairy advertising on council-owned land, making it the first local authority in the UK to do so.
A new survey by The Vegan Society shows that 65% of Brits find factory farming unacceptable, and the majority (82%) of respondents were meat-eaters.
Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark and Aarhus University have boosted the lysine content in fava beans and rapeseed press cakes more than threefold via a two-stage bacterial fermentation process, an encouraging sign for the essential amino acid score of plant proteins.
Finally, US carbon-derived fat startup Savor has been selected for L’Oréal‘s 2026 Green Sciences Incubator, run by the cosmetics giant’s research and innovation team in partnership with Genopole.
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