New School Foods has also unveiled a pilot facility that will enable commercial-scale production of its whole-cut plant-based salmon.
Dutch startup Rival Foods will start deploying shear cell technology—a novel approach to texturizing plant-based proteins that can create whole cuts—at a “commercially viable scale” this summer.
PURIS CEO Tyler Lorenzen says the DOC ruling sends a “clear message that dumping and unfair trade tactics won’t be tolerated.”
With Beyond Meat mulling a restructure of its operations in China due to lackluster demand, we caught up with investor Tao Zhang to get his take on the alt protein market opportunity in China.
The plant-based protein market has been experiencing “destocking and consumer demand softness,” says ADM.
The binder will be available in the US in 2024 as part of a multi-year agreement between Plantible and ICL.
Projections show a 14% growth in seafood demand by 2030 versus 2020 levels.
Counterintuitively, perhaps, for a technology that’s been around for decades, the extrusion process for transforming plant proteins into meat analogs remains something of a mystery, says Noa Weiss.
What is Eat Just? A foodtech pioneer attempting to disrupt not one, but two huge addressable markets, or a “house of cards built on one individual’s ability to separate people from their money?”
UPP enables farmers to harvest broccoli mechanically without damaging the crop, and upcycle stalks and leaves to extract proteins and fibers.
There is still no news regarding a buyer for the assets of plant protein co Merit Functional Foods, more than 5 months after it went into receivership.
New York based LIVEKINDLY Collective (LKC) has expanded its plant-based portfolio with the acquisition of Glendale, California-based Alpha Foods.
Plantible Foods—a startup extracting a highly functional protein from the aquatic plant lemna—has opened a 140-acre lemna farm in Texas and launched its first product: a plant-based egg replacer it claims can “outperform eggs.”
Plant protein tech company Burcon NutraScience is still “actively seeking partnerships” to acquire the assets of distressed plant protein processor Merit Functional Foods, which went into receivership on March 1.
Impossible Foods’ lawyers did not violate rules of professional conduct by hiring private investigators to pose as potential customers in order to obtain product information and samples from Motif FoodWorks as the companies clashed over IP, a court has ruled.
Motif FoodWorks has accused Impossible Foods of hiring private investigators to pose as potential customers to “covertly” obtain information about Motif’s business that could influence ongoing litigation between the warring foodtech companies and “circumvent the discovery process.”
Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown says he is confident of returning to growth and achieving cashflow positive status in the second half of this year, after posting a 17.7% decline in net revenues to $195.5m in the first quarter of 2023.
Burcon NutraScience says it is working with “additional industry participants” to acquire the assets of distressed plant protein processor Merit Functional Foods after the receiver rejected its initial bid.
Precision fermentation startup The EVERY Co has teamed up with Alpha Foods to explore the potential of meat alternatives featuring ‘animal-free’ egg whites made with microbes instead of chickens.
Burcon NutraScience has teamed up with an unnamed “industry plant protein company” to submit a bid to acquire the assets of distressed plant protein processor Merit Functional Foods, which went into receivership on March 1.
