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Californian precision fermentation startup New Culture has secured another patent for its recombinant casein protein, covering its flagship mozzarella product in the US. Ahead of its expected launch in pizza restaurants in California,…
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Danish biotech giant Novonesis has signed an exclusive deal to scale up and commercialise TurtleTree’s precision-fermented lactoferrin protein, following investment in the Singaporean startup. Singapore’s TurtleTree has taken a giant…
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Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Oatly's partnership with Dutch Railways, Finless Foods' crowdfunding round, and Gosh!'s Mad About Veg campaign. New…
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Dutch cultivated meat pioneer Mosa Meat has received an €875,000 ($1M) loan from state-owned Invest International to navigate regulatory processes and launch into countries across the globe. Seven months after raising €15M ($17.6M at…
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The EU has published its long-awaited Protein Plan, acknowledging the importance of plant-based proteins but failing to set concrete targets to increase production for human use. Europe’s policymakers have embraced plant proteins as a…
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A coalition of over 100 food, farming and nutrition groups is calling on the USDA to expand access to pulse-based ingredients to help schools meet its new protein-rich dietary guidelines. Amid the furore around the meat-promoting update…
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The Better Meat Co, known for its Rhiza mycoprotein, has changed its name to BMC Ingredients as it expands its ingredient portfolio beyond meat alternatives. In its regulatory dossier submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration, US…
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In its first policy brief, Horizon Europe-backed project Giant Leaps is urging the EU to accelerate the transition to alternative proteins while preserving the nutritional adequacy of diets. The EU is increasingly facing calls for a…
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Quorn's foodservice arm has supplied its mycoprotein to William White Meats for the launch of UltiMeat, a lineup of blended meat products for UK restaurants, caterers, and retailers. As blended meat continues to gain steam across…
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Spanish manufacturer Alimentos Sanygran has acquired the plant-based and organic business assets of Nutrition & Santé’s Iberia arm, including a factory and 60-odd employees. Alimentos Sanygran, a Navarra-based manufacturer of…
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Food tech startup Nutrition From Water has agreed to make an equity investment in Portugal's PhycoFerm, formalising a joint R&D collaboration to accelerate microalgae strain generation. New Zealand-Portuguese startup Nutrition From…
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German engineering company GEA is relocating its Application and Technology Center for future food from Hildesheim to Sarstedt with a €4M ($4.6M) investment. Three years after opening its first novel food scale-up facility, Germany’s…
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Japan’s government has laid out a draft public-private investment roadmap across 17 sectors for 2040, totalling $2.3T. As part of this, it’s targeting $6.2B in funding for novel food technologies. Japan has taken a big step in its bid…
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Nambawan Spain, a spinoff of Nomad Bioscience, has unveiled Thaûma, a thaumatin sweetener produced via plant molecular farming, which is 13,600 times sweeter than sugar. The food tech industry's deepened focus on sugar reduction has led…
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The Michelin Guide is retiring the Green Star by the end of 2026, six years after it first introduced the sustainability accolade, which was criticised by some as a greenwashing enabler. In a major shake-up to its award system, the…
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Future food businesses in the Netherlands are calling on the government to make at least €200M available via an EU funding mechanism to expand alternative protein production. The Netherlands may already be a food tech leader, but a…
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The sustainability non-profit Lever Foundation is expanding its policy initiative to increase plant-based food availability in restaurants, hotels, and retailers in India and Thailand. Lever Foundation, a sustainability non-profit…
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The US's much-criticised update to the dietary guidelines will likely worsen the food system's environmental impact, thanks to the spotlight on protein and red meat. When the Trump administration unveiled the 2026 update to the US…
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US holding company Livekindly Collective has signed its latest acquisition deal with the purchase of German plant-based foods startup Greenforce. "This category will keep consolidating, which – given our strong position in the market –…
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Spanish plant-based leader Heura has debuted its first non-meat-mimicking products: legume-based veggie burgers that contain twice the protein as the category average. On the back of its first profitable quarter, Barcelona-based Heura…
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French cultivated meat leader Parima has demonstrated tonne-scale production of its duck at viable cost economics on a 22,000-litre line run by Australia's Vow. As it awaits regulatory approval in Australia, France's Parima has…
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