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The Good Food Institute India, in partnership with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, held its first in-person Summit in New Delhi last week since the pandemic, taking a look at the smart protein industry and how…
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Beginning early next year, Swees Plant Based Foods Co., a Thai-based dairy-free cheese startup, will begin production in the country's first vegan cheese factory. Expecting to be fully operational in its new facility by 2023, Swees says…
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Synonym, a financing and development platform for biomanufacturing, has raised a pre-seed round of $6.3 million, led by Andreessen Horowitz, Giant Ventures, Blue Horizon, Siddhi Capital, FJ Labs and Global Founders Capital among others. …
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Cocoa butter made without cacao beans? Seminal Biosciences says it's done it in a strategic collaboration with Nucelis. Like a number of staple foods, cacao, the bean that all chocolate comes from, might not survive climate change. The…
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Leading cultivated meat producer Umami Meats will debut its lab-grown fish cakes and filets, following the debut of its fish ball laksa in August. During Agri-Food Week 2022 held in Singapore later this month, Umami Meats says its…
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In an expected move as sales continue to miss targets, U.S.-based Beyond Meat has announced layoffs affecting 200 employees including their recently suspended COO. The layoffs at Beyond Meat include Deanna Jurgens, chief growth officer…
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Israel-based Grace Breeding says it can improve grain yields by 18 percent and biomass by 16 percent, reducing the need for synthetic fertilizer and the environmental impact of conventional farming methods. If Grace Breeding's Nitrogen…
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The newly launched Singapore-based, Faba, says its vegan meal subscription service delivers the best of plant-based meals classic and new-world. With a pre-seed funding round raised through the Singaporean VC Antler—where the founders…
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These food startups selected as finalists in Thought For Food's 2021 Challenge are set to sustainably change the way we grow and eat food.
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Okay, it's taken me a few goes to figure out how to throw the best low-waste, vegan kids' birthday ever but I think I've cracked it. Other than the fact that the guests loved it and my little one was over-the-moon happy, I am most proud of…
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A new line of hard juices from Pulp Culture features The Every Company's precision fermentation egg protein in a first for the alcohol and precision fermented egg categories. Following seven years of research and its commercial launch…
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The Singapore-based precision agriculture firm Singrow is expanding its vertical urban farms and launching a consumer-facing brand aimed at bringing sustainable crops to consumers in a bid toward Singapore's 30 by 30 food resilience goals.…
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Fish deserve a humane death says the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC), one of the world's leading farmed seafood organizations, in a move that elevates animal welfare standards to new heights. The ASC said for the first time that…
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Dutch cultivated meat producer Meatable says it's poised to bring cultivated pork to Singapore through an exclusive partnership with the only approved contract cultivated meat manufacturer, ESCO Aster. Cultivated pork could be the…
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Licious, the Temasek-backed Indian meat company, has announced the launch of UnCrave, its first foray into vegetarian meat. The new launch will see Licious work directly with consumers on the UnCrave products, focusing on Delhi, Mumbai,…
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New analysis suggests alternative protein and vegan meat is in the early phase of an "S" adoption curve. And by the next decade, there will likely be a tipping point. The new findings come as plant-based meat sales have waned; a recent…
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We all could do with being more environmentally responsible. These simple zero-waste bathroom swaps can help. Have you seen the stats about our global plastic waste crisis? It's terrifying. So below, we share bathroom swaps to make.…
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Thailand's National Innovation Agency (NIA) SPACE-F project is aimed at bringing investment opportunities to the Thai food tech sector and creating the Silicon Valley of food for Southeast Asia. According to Dr. Pun-Arj Chairatana,…
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Heading to outer space anytime soon? You may be dining on cultivated meat, thanks to a new partnership between alternative protein pioneer, Mexico's Micro Meat, and U.S.-based Orbital Assembly, developer of space-based business parks with…
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Impossible Foods, the Bay Area vegan meat brand behind Burger King's Impossible Whopper, says it recently laid off six percent of its workforce. Is it a sign of more cuts or more growth ahead? According to Impossible Foods' CEO Peter…
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Singapore-based Umami Meats has filed a patent for a novel single-stem cell technology that it says can build both muscle and fat in cultivated seafood. The new patent for mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) lines from fish is aimed at helping…
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