FDA says the Impossible Burger is GRAS
In California, Impossible Foods received a no-questions letter from the US Food and Drug Administration, accepting the unanimous conclusion of a panel of food-safety...
Sun Basket organic meal kits scale nationally with funding led by Unilever Ventures
In California, Unilever Ventures, Baseline Ventures and Founders Circle Capital invested $9.2 million in Sun Basket, a home-delivery organic meal kit service, increasing Sun...
Grubhub buys Tapingo to streamline campus food order and delivery
In Illinois, Grubhub, the nation's leading online and mobile food-ordering and delivery marketplace, acquired Tapingo, a leading platform for campus food ordering. With over...
Funding environment forces Paleo to go bare bones
In Belgium, alternative protein company Paleo has announced a “strategic refocusing” of its operations to concentrate on its core research and development.
The company,...
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...
Lab-grown fat startup wants your plant-based burger to taste less like plants
In London, startup Hoxton Farms is working to cultivate animal fat to help make plant-based meat alternatives taste more like the real thing.
Currently, many...
World’s largest mozzarella maker licenses cow-free casein tech
In Colorado, Leprino Foods Company has signed an agreement with precision-fermentation platform company Fooditive Group to secure exclusive, worldwide rights to produce non-animal casein...
Califia Farms lands $50 million to expand plant-based beverage manufacturing
In California, Califia Farms, best known for its innovative plant-based beverages in distinctive curvy bottles, closed another round of funding that brought in over...
Opalia and Hoogwegt partner on cell-based dairy
In Canada, cell-based dairy startup Opalia and dairy ingredient provider Hoogwegt have entered into a commercial agreement.
Under the terms of the two-year deal,...
Kokomodo hopes to solve chocolate crunch with cell cultivation
In Israel, startup Kokomodo aims to alleviate concerns over future supply of cacao, the source of cocoa for chocolate, by cultivating cocoa powder in...