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...
Intense pulsed light kills 99.99999 percent of harmful bacteria in powdered food
In Minnesota, University of Minnesota researchers are using intense pulsed light to kill bacteria in powdered foods and prevent the potentially deadly risks of...
FoodMaven raises $8.6 million to capture and sell lost food
In Colorado, FoodMaven, an innovative tech-enabled marketplace that captures food otherwise lost in the U.S. food system, closed an $8.6 million Series A financing...
Maple Leaf Foods unfurls Greenleaf Foods for plant-based focus
In Illinois, Greenleaf Foods, SPC launched as a food company dedicated to cultivating and advancing leadership in the fast growing plant-based food sector. As...
Gay Lea Foods invests $140 million to grow Canadian dairy nutraceuticals industry
In Ontario, Gay Lea Foods Co-operative Limited is investing $140 million over four years to build state-of-the-art processing capacity for nutrition and nutraceutical-grade dairy...
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...
Let them eat lab-grown caviar
In London, scientists at Caviar Biotec and University College London have grown sturgeon caviar in a lab using cells from a fish egg sac....
Lab-grown meat sold at butcher shop for the first time
In Singapore, lab-grown meat has recorded another world’s first: availability in a local butcher shop.
GOOD Meat says Huber’s Butchery, one of Singapore’s premier...
Cargill and Precision BioSciences partner to make low saturated fat canola oil
In Minnesota, Cargill and Precision BioSciences collaborated to use Precision's ARCUS genome-editing technology to further reduce saturated fat in canola oil, putting Cargill at...
Petri dish to pitmaster: Texas startup wants to put cell-based brisket on your grill
In Texas, a cell-based meat startup aims to have a brisket prototype ready in just two years. Katie Kam, cofounder and CEO of the...