Otsuka buys Daiya Foods to expand plant-based food products
In Canada, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. acquired Daiya Foods Inc. a privately held Vancouver-based company specializing in the manufacture of plant-based foods. The 405 million...
Eating meals within a 10-hour window protects against disease
In California, Salk Institute scientists found that mice lacking the biological clocks for a healthy metabolism could still be protected against obesity and metabolic...
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...
Mosa Meat raises €40 million as it prepares to introduce cultivated beef
In Isle of Man, Mosa Meat has raised €40 million (US$47 million) to scale and commercialize cultivated beef.
The oversubscribed round was led by Lowercarbon...
Cruelty-free kebabs: Future Meat adds lamb to portfolio
In Israel, cultivated meat pioneer Future Meat Technologies has produced lab-grown lamb that looks, cooks and tastes like conventional ground lamb meat.
The company uses...
Have people for dinner: Startup imagines at-home, cultured human flesh kits
In San Diego, cultured meat startup Ouroboros Steak has designed a kit that enables people to grow little human steaks in their own home...
Chef’d makes The Beyond Burger available nationwide
In California, Beyond Meat announced an expanded partnership with Chef’d, a first-of-its-kind meal kit marketplace that recently saw an influx of capital from major...
Meatable taps ESCO Aster for cultivated pork production
In the Netherlands, Meatable has partnered with ESCO Aster—the only commercially licensed cultivated meat contract manufacturer in the world—to launch cultivated pork in Singapore....
Modern-age cookbook includes whisky from pee, 3D-printed tiger penis
In Massachusetts, MIT Press has published the Anthropocene Cookbook, replete with cutting-edge—if not always palatable—food tech innovations for sustainably feeding a growing world population...
BlueNalu launches cellular aquaculture
In California, BlueNalu, a pioneer in cellular aquaculture closed a $4.5 million seed round, just two months after launching the company. BlueNalu’s cellular aquaculture...