The approval letter is the first to cover a meat-replacing mycoprotein strain outside of the Fusarium genus and the first to include an USDA evaluation of mycoprotein as a meat enhancer.
Incredo Sugar is structured in such a way that human taste receptors perceive it to be sweeter than a comparable amount of sugar in free unassociated form, enabling sugar reductions of 30-70%.
The firm—which will use co-packers to manufacture its products with a view to launching in the fourth quarter of 2024—will have an initial focus on plant-based shrimp.
Producing high-value proteins from genetically engineered black soldier flies is cheaper and more scalable than expressing them in engineered microbes via precision fermentation, claims Chilean startup ByBug.
Plus: Tyson’s backpedaling on its beef pledge and another biomaterials startup makes a splash.
“We need to be very careful about what we invest in unless we want to carry it,” says AgFunder about just released H1 2024 data.
Afterlife Ag collects food waste from restaurants to grow gourmet mushrooms it then sells back to restaurateurs, creating a circular solution.
There are multiple ways to extend the shelf-life of fresh produce moving in bulk through the supply chain, but precious few options once it arrives at the back door of a restaurant, claims Prism.
“But one thing I will say,” says Dr. David Kaplan, “I don’t think stir tank reactors that have been used in pharma are going to work here. They’re just too expensive.”
UPSIDE Foods has engaged in a fresh round of layoffs in a bid to extend its runway as it expands its facility in Emeryville, California.
And businesses that don’t engage now risk being left behind, says Justin Honaman: ‘What are you doing today so you are not obsolete tomorrow?’
Plus: Denmark to tax livestock farming emissions and Ohio lawmakers create a stink about cultivated meat.
Israeli startup Ever After Foods has just secured a $10m capital injection to scale patented tech it claims can slash capex and opex costs in the nascent—but already beleaguered—cultivated meat industry.
The patented technology enables beneficial bacteria to penetrate the living tissue of fruits and vegetables and serve as endophytes: microbes that live inside plants.
Plus: New funds from Proterra, Asian Development Bank and others, and lawsuits aplenty.
The PTAB has invalidated the bulk of the claims in an Impossible Foods US patent following a challenge by Motif FoodWorks but declined to review six other patents at issue in their IP dispute.
Palacios’ Spanish omelets are sold in a ready-to-eat format in retail and foodservice locations in multiple countries.
In court docs filed today, Perfect Day accuses manufacturing partner Olon of breach of contract, fraud, and misappropriation of trade secrets.
“We see the relatively undeveloped nature of the mesquite supply chain as both one of our biggest opportunities as a business and one of our biggest risks,” say Mez Foods cofounders Bob and Ben Schultz.
Meanwhile, a longtime hot-dog-eating champion got the boot from a famous contest, and plant-based meat is the culprit.
