Future Food Quick Bites: Impossible Sliders, Major League Baseball & Cat Jewellery
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Impossible Foods's beef slider rollout, the New York Mets's new vegan sandwich, and Grubby's vegan meal kits for B Corp!-->…
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EatKinda Takes Its Cauliflower Ice Cream to the US Amid Scaling Struggles in New Zealand
New Zealand-based cauliflower ice cream startup EatKinda is moving operations away from its home country to focus on the US amid scaling challenges.
EatKinda, the New Zealand startup making dairy-free ice cream from cauliflower, is!-->!-->!-->…
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NotCo’s AI is Revolutionising the Food Industry – And Big Brands Are Eating It Up
Chile's NotCo pioneered the use of AI in food. Its co-founders explain why they're doubling down on the B2B business, which is growing by triple digits.
Karim Pichara has been working with artificial intelligence (AI) his whole life. “I!-->!-->!-->…
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The Biased Science That Fuelled Italian Farmers’ Anti-Cultivated-Meat March
One of the loudest opponents of cultivated meat, Coldiretti rallied thousands of farmers to demand the EU assess novel foods like new drugs. It cited concerns from scientists, but half of them are members of the organisation.
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Why Alpro UK Is Spending Millions to Switch to 100% British Oats for Plant-Based Milk
Danone-owned plant-based dairy giant Alpro has announced that it is moving to a 100% local supply for its oat milk lineup in the UK, powered by a multimillion-pound investment to expand its capacity.
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Ultra-Processed or Not, Ditching Meat for Plant-Based Foods Can Help You Lose Weight: Study
A new study shows that swapping meat with plant-based alternatives – no matter how processed – can lead to significant weight loss.
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In Thailand, Eating Plants Could Prevent 100,000 Deaths from the Burning Season
Replacing half of meat and seafood production with plant proteins could save 100,000 lives lost from air pollution in Thailand, a new study has found.
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Hooked Foods CEO: Underwhelming Sales of Plant-Based Leaders Has ‘Scared Investors’
Tom Johansson, co-founder and CEO of Swedish vegan meat maker Hooked Foods, says underperforming big players have "scared" investors interested in the plant-based sector.
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Israeli Microalgae Startup Raises $5M Seed Extension to ‘Take Fermentation Out of the Dark’
Brevel, an Israeli startup using light and fermentation to create microalgae-based ingredients, has secured $5M in a seed extension round.
Israeli food tech player Brevel has extended its seed funding pot by $5M, taking total investment!-->!-->!-->…
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What Does Cultivated Meat Actually Taste Like? We Asked People Who’ve Tried the Real Thing
With a number of cultivated meat startups hosting public tastings of their products, three taste testers take us behind the scenes of what it's like to bite into the future from cultivated fois gras to cell-cultured salmon.
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Opinion – Diet Offsets: Why Going Vegan Isn’t the Only Way to Fight Factory Farming
Thom Norman, co-founder of NGO FarmKind, believes people going vegan may not be the best way to fight factory farming. His solution? Diet offsetting.
Here's a radical proposition: the best way to fight factory farming isn’t to go vegan.!-->!-->!-->…
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For Its Sustainable Butter, Savor is Ditching Cows for CO2 – and You Can Eat It This Year
Californian food tech startup Savor has launched its farm-free, carbon-based butter, which will appear on Michelin-starred menus this year, ahead of a Series B funding round.
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Unilever to Sell Plant-Based Meat Brand The Vegetarian Butcher to JBS-Owned Vivera
Unilever has agreed to sell The Vegetarian Butcher to fellow plant-based meat business Vivera, with the deal expected to be completed by Q3 2025.
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Self-GRAS Uncertainty Looms Over Food Tech Leaders As FDA Spotlights ‘Transparency’
The US's move to potentially remove the self-determination pathway of food safety could have significant implications for fermentation protein companies, with the FDA doubling down on safety while outlining its support for innovation.
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Korean Muslim Federation Issues Fatwa Ruling Cultivated Meat As Halal
South Korea's largest Muslim organisation has issued a fatwa recognising that cultivated meat can be Halal if it meets certain requirements, with one startup already pursuing the certification.
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5 Minutes with A Future Food VC: Better Bite Ventures’s Simon Newstead
In our interview series, we quiz future food investors about the solutions that excite them the most, their favourite climate-forward restaurant, and what they look for in successful founders.
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German Startup Bags $15.5M to Bring Tech-Led Reusable Food Packaging to the US
Based in Cologne, Vytal Global has raised €14.2M ($15.5M) in growth funding to fuel the expansion of its reusable food packaging solutions.
German eco packaging startup Vytal Global has secured €14.2M ($15.5M) in investment to scale its!-->!-->!-->…
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UK Dietary Guidelines in Need of Plant-Based Reform to Save the NHS Millions
The UK government is being urged to update its Eatwell Guide in line with the Eat-Lancet Planetary Health Diet, with a plant-forward system predicted to save the NHS over £50M every year.
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McDonald’s New Meat-Free Burger in Canada Is All About the Veggies
McDonald's Canada is trialling the McVeggie, featuring a patty that ditches plant-based meat for vegetables.
After the Beyond Burger failure in Canada, McDonald's is banking on vegetables for its latest meat-free main.
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Future Food Quick Bites: Chia Seed Milk, Healthy Ham & Vegan Calcium
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Benexia's new chia seed milk, Violife's campaign with Chrishell Stause, and Holy Carrot's upcoming restaurant in London.
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Ahead of $15M Fundraise, The Better Meat Co Secures Mycoprotein Deal with South American Meat Giant
The Better Meat Co has signed a letter of intent with one of South America's largest meat companies for the use of its mycoprotein in blended meat applications, just as it starts a new $15M fundraising round.
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