Delicious Initiative looks to solve key vegan cheese challenge
In Sweden, an EU-funded project aims to combine precision fermentation, yeast biomass and fiber-producing microbes to achieve better-tasting vegan cheeses and kefir.
The four-year...
Actor James Cromwell glues hand to Starbucks counter to protest plant-based milk upcharge
In New York, actor James Cromwell briefly disrupted a Manhattan Starbucks by gluing his hand to the counter in protest of the popular chain’s...
Not enough fish in the sea: Start-up works to culture sushi-grade salmon
In San Francisco, Wildtype is working to grow sushi-grade salmon in a lab amid dangerously depleted ocean populations and factory farming beset with pest...
Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein planned for NC State
In North Carolina, the Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein has launched at North Carolina State University with a mandate to become a biomanufacturing hub...
Delicious data: Shiru uses machine learning to identify food-friendly proteins
In California, alternative protein startup Shiru has closed a $17 million Series A funding round and says it will use the funds to build...
Zipongo acquires FillMyFork to make purchasing healthy food easier
In California, Zipongo acquired FillMyFork as a complimentary expansion of its Food Benefits Management offering to health plans, employers and health systems. Zipongo and FillMyFork...
Bulgaria’s Cupffee wants you to eat your coffee cup
In Bulgaria, a “sustainable edibles” startup aims to reduce the mountains of waste generated by takeaway cups of coffee. Dubbed Cupffee, the company has...
GOOD Meat breaks ground on cultivated meat mega-facility
In Singapore, GOOD Meat has broken ground on Asia’s largest cultivated meat production facility.
The complex, scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2023...
Emulate to qualify Organs-on-Chips as toxicology testing platforms
In Massachusetts, Emulate, Inc. entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Foods and Veterinary...
TerraVia partners with Compass to expand algae food oil distribution
In California, TerraVia signed a multi-year food oils supply agreement with Compass, and, Bon Appétit Management Company, a unit of Compass, adopted Thrive Culinary...