Maple Leaf enters U.S. plant-based protein market with Lightlife acquisition
In Canada, Maple Leaf Foods, a consumer protein company, agreed to acquire Lightlife Foods, Inc., a manufacturer and brand of refrigerated plant-based protein foods...
Celebrated chef forms cultured meat joint venture
In Japan, Michelin Star chef Shimamura Masaharu has launched a cultured meat startup.
The award-winning creator and owner of Osaka’s Unkaku restaurant has launched...
DuPont Nutrition & Health expands European probiotics production capacity
In Denmark, DuPont Nutrition & Health invested $60 million in its European probiotics production facilities to expand three cultures production sites as a response...
The Beyond Burger is coming to Safeway stores in Northern California, Nevada and Hawaii
In California, Beyond Meat announced that the Beyond Burger will be available in the meat section of Safeway grocery stores, beginning Memorial Day weekend...
North Carolina startup claims first cell-cultured human breast milk
In North Carolina, startup Biomilq is claiming the first cell-cultured human breast milk and advancing its process using human mammary cells.
Instead of targeting components...
USDA says edible food packaging just a few years away
Edible food packaging based on the milk protein casein will be on store shelves within three years, according to USDA researcher Peggy Tomasula.
Tomasula and...
Eating more nuts, vegetables and whole grains with less salt and trans fat reduces...
In Oregon, researchers showed a direct link between unhealthy diets and more than 400,000 deaths from heart and blood vessel diseases in 2015. The...
Meatly makes cultivated cat food, sees good growth paw-tential in pet food
In London, cultivated meat company Meatly has produced the world’s first can of cultivated cat food.
Made in collaboration with Omni, a novel protein...
The Blockchain Food Safety Alliance debuts in China
In China, Walmart, JD.com, IBM, and Tsinghua University National Engineering Laboratory for E-Commerce Technologies announced the Blockchain Food Safety Alliance, a collaboration designed to...
Fire up the grill: “Thick meat emulating products” could soon be a reality with...
In Israel, cultured meat innovator MeaTech has filed a provisional US patent application for its bioprinting method. The application covers an in situ inkjet...