Japanese Biotech Pioneer Launches ‘Open Brand’ to Drive Adoption of Cellular Agriculture
Japanese cellular agriculture specialist IntegriCulture has introduced Cellag, a brand to sell its own products, as well as those by other companies, across the food, cosmetics, and materials categories.
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South Korea’s SeaWith to Cut Cultivated Beef Costs by 30% with New Supply Deal
South Korean food tech startup SeaWith has signed a supply deal with the UK's 3D Bio-Tissues, whose cell culture media can reduce the cost of the former's cultivated meat by 30%.
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Swiss Biotech Hub Expands Beyond Cultivated Meat Into Cell-Based Cocoa & Coffee
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.
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New Competition Seeks Breakthrough Solutions to Decarbonise Asia’s Beef & Dairy Sector
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.
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From Egg Replacers to Sports Nutrition, Leaft Foods Gears Up for 2026 Expansion of Alfalfa Protein
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.
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2025 Wrapped: The Top 10 Food Tech Wins of the Year
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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Future Food Quick Bites: Waitrose Wellington, Vegan Ribs & Impossible Gift Kit
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.
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Green Queen’s 10 Top Future Food Interviews 2025
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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Mosa Meat Raises $17.6M, Slashes Production Costs Ahead of Cultivated Beef Launch
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.
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The Biggest Alt Protein Policy Stories of 2025
From product labels to school lunches to regulatory progress, 2025 has seen a lot of wins and losses for alternative protein – here are the 10 standout developments.
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2025 Wrapped: Green Queen’s Top 10 Future Food Stories of the Year
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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Our Top 10 Future Food Funding Rounds of 2025
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 Meat Startup Meatable Shuts Down Amid Fundraising Struggles
Dutch cultivated pork maker Meatable is winding down its operations after failing to secure funding, its shareholder has announced.
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Äio Gets $1.4 Grant from Estonian Govt to Take Waste-Derived Yeast Fat to the Next Level
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.
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The Green Dairy: Ikea Pumps $8.6M into Plant-Based Milk Producer to Become Majority Owner
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.
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Yeastup Opens Large-Scale Factory to Produce Proteins from Beer Waste
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.
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Carbon Cream: Can Solein Protein Change the Game for Dairy-Free Alternatives?
Solar Foods has teased Solein Cream as one of many applications for its gas-derived protein, with a three-ingredient solution that could solve the bottlenecks for non-dairy products.
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US Senator Adam Schiff Floats Bill to Fund National Alternative Protein Strategy
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.
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Those Vegan Cowboys Milks $7.3M in Funding to Launch Animal-Free Casein in 2026
Dutch-Belgian startup Those Vegan Cowboys has raised €6.25M ($7.3M) to scale up its cow-free dairy protein. It's eyeing a 2026 US launch, having secured regulatory clearance.
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Exclusive: Livekindly Collective Snaps Up TiNDLE Foods’s Plant-Based Meat Business in Three Countries
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.
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‘Missed Opportunity’: EU Biotech Act Excludes Novel Foods from Regulatory Sandboxes
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.
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