Danish vegetarian meal delivery startup Simple Feast plans on taking on the US, after its latest funding round. But will Americans have the appetite?
The plant-based meat maker is launching at 27 Gelson’s locations in Southern California while Tim Hortons is backpedaling its Beyond Meat offerings.
Asia and Africa are home to 80% of the world’s population and with rising incomes, they are craving and demanding more animal-sourced foods, GFI India’s head Varun Deshpande told AFN on the sidelines of the Good Food Conference in San Francisco today.
For former yogurt maker and company co-owner Tom Moffitt, if you can’t beat the plant-based dairy alternatives, it’s best to join them.
You learn a fair bit about someone by just asking how they take their eggs. And it’s a pretty hot question to fire up AFN’s new “Table Talk” series when across the table this time is a veteran food industry egg-spert like David Wagstaff.
With big-name CVC investors like ADM Ventures and Danone Manifesto Ventures, Sustainable Bioproducts is preparing to unveil new plant-based product offerings targeting what it describes as the white space in the plant-based segment.
Impossible is ramping up production with this deal that follows fellow plant-based meat producer Beyond Meat’s earnings earlier this week that sent the stock down 15% yesterday.
Food multinationals aren’t offering enough in terms of protein alternatives, says investor network FAIRR – but alt-protein faces other challenges too.
Plant-based meat still costs two-to-five times as much as its animal counterparts and solving this problem is far from an inevitability, writes Christie Lagally.
Plant-based ground beef has become a staple at several fast food restaurants across the US. Now food retailers are demanding other alternatives, but creating viable
In this second edition of Future Food, I chat to Robb about his food preferences, his contrarian views of the plant-based meat trend, the role of big data in food, and how the Amazon deal came about.
The company’s products include the Improved Meat portfolio, that “mimics meat in all cooking methods and forms of distribution,” according to the website.
Miyoko Schinner is founder and CEO of Miyoko’s Kitchen, a plant-based food startup specializing in nut and coconut-based cheese and butter alternatives.
Plant-based protein startups using technology to create and mass produce their products have traditionally received support from a small but dedicated group of investors, which is increasingly being joined by major food and agriculture players as this trend solidifies.
Every year, grocery retailers and food media put out trend lists for the coming year, predicting what’s going to be big in food. A careful look at these lists can help us predict, not what technologies are going to get a vote of confidence from VCs and investors – but rather, which technologies are going to have the attention of consumers in the year ahead.
Protein-rich foods are in particular demand, but with the meat industry responsible for more than 15% of greenhouse gas emissions, Innovative Food startups are finding alternative ways to give consumers what they want.
The company uses a blend of oats, lentils, sunflower seeds, coconut, sesame seeds and has created three flavors of yogurt with no added sugars, while eliminating the waste common in plant-based dairy alternatives such as soy milk.
Plant-based foodtech startup Nutriati has raised $8 million in Series A funding to commercialize ingredients targeting food manufacturers and processors.
Agri-food technology companies raised $42.5m in two weeks from farm-to-fork.
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