Dream job alert: Lab-grown meat startup recruiting bacon taste testers
In California, start-up Mission Barns is looking for 100 bacon lovers to do curbside taste tests of its lab-grown meat.
The taste tests will be...
Prediabetes risk increases by 46 percent with daily sugary, but not diet soda, drink...
In Massachusetts, Tufts University researchers published an epidemiological analysis showing a 46 percent higher risk of developing prediabetes for adult Americans who regularly consumed...
Acclaimed restaurant Noma partners with Novonesis to “take deliciousness to the next level”
In Denmark, Michelin star-mainstay Noma has partnered with biosolutions leader Novonesis to determine the potential of new biobased food ingredients within the Noma Projects...
A&W offers Beyond Meat plant-based burgers across Canada
In Canada, A&W Food Services of Canada Inc. will be the first national burger chain in Canada, and Beyond Meat's largest restaurant partner yet,...
General Mills lifts Kite Hill with $40 million in fresh capital
In California, Kite Hill, an innovator and pioneer in crafting delicious chef-inspired plant-based foods, completed a $40 million capital round led by 301 INC,...
Lab-in-a-smartphone breakthrough enables mobile health diagnostics
In Illinois, University of Illinois professors demonstrated a compact, inexpensive system that performs optical spectroscopy in a way that can fit inside the body...
The Impossible Burger debuts on the West Coast
In California, Impossible Foods launched the Impossible Burger in selected West Coast restaurants. Not yet available in stores, the Impossible Burger is a result of...
Gwyneth Paltrow and Serena Williams help Daily Harvest deliver farm-frozen superfoods direct to consumers...
In New York, Oscar Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow and 23-time Grand Slam tennis champion Serena Williams invested in Daily Harvest’s Series A financing round....
Cultured Wagyu beef maker raises $5 million
In California, Orbillion Bio, a startup targeting lab-grown replacements for foodie cuts of meat like bison, elk and Wagyu beef, has raised $5 million.
The...
Eggs in fresh vegetable salads increase Vitamin E absorption up to 7 times higher
In Indiana, Purdue University researchers found that adding three whole eggs to a fresh vegetable salad increased Vitamin E absorption by 4 to 7...