Show me the honey: Start up developing bee-free route
In the Netherlands, Fooditive has begun developing bee-free honey using DNA from honey and fermentation enzymes. The company says its faux honey has the...
Into the belly of the beast: Beyond Meat launches in beef-loving Brazil
In California, plant-based meat trailblazer Beyond Meat has announced plans to expand into Brazil with its Beyond Burger, Beyond Sausage, and Beyond Beef products.
“As...
Unilever eyes 2023 for precision-fermented dairy launch
In London, Unilever executives have publicly called dairy “problematic” as it invests in R&D to produce alternatives via precision fermentation. The consumer goods giant,...
Junk food pictures are twice as distracting as health food pictures
In Maryland, a new Johns Hopkins University study has verified that junk food images are almost twice as distracting as health food pictures when...
Meatable scales cultivated pork
In the Netherlands, cultivated meat leader Meatable has opened a new pilot facility to scale cultivated pork. The 3,300m2 facility at Leiden’s Bio Science...
Kellogg invests in Bright Greens for plant-based frozen smoothies that are shaken, not blended
In Michigan, eighteen94 capital, the venture capital fund of Kellogg Company, invested in Bright Greens, a maker of blender-free, plant-based frozen smoothies. Bright Greens...
Human milk protein maker PFx Biotech raises €5 million
In Portugal, a biotech company has raised €5 million (US $5.7 million) to develop and scale its precision-fermented human milk proteins. The funding for...
Vegetarian diets double weight loss and improve the metabolism of Type 2 diabetics
In England, seventy-four subjects with type 2 diabetes were randomly assigned to follow either a vegetarian diet or a conventional anti-diabetic diet. The vegetarian...
Cultivated meat tech could solve traditional Chinese medicine’s poaching problem
In Hong Kong, advances in lab-grown meat development are raising hopes for alternative routes to producing Traditional Chinese Medicines—particularly remedies that have pushed several...
ISS wants to make sure early lunar settlements have hummus
In Israel, an experiment headed to the International Space Station in 2022 will evaluate the feasibility of growing chickpeas in microgravity.
The goal is to...