Bay Area food tech promises cow-free pizza by 2023
In San Francisco, precision fermentation startup New Culture is targeting late 2023 for the launch of its animal-free mozzarella cheese. The company plans to...
Vegan ice cream Brave Robot uses biotech to produce milk proteins
In California, food technology firm Perfect Day has expanded into animal-free dairy ice cream.
Dubbed Brave Robot, the company uses genetically modified microflora to produce...
Chick-fil-A offers complete meal kits to go
In Georgia, Chick-fil-A entered the meal kit market with a new product, Mealtime Kits. Designed to make it easy for customers to cook their...
Celleste Bio secures $4.5 million for cell-cultured cocoa
In Israel, cell cultured cocoa startup Celleste Bio has raised $4.5 million in a seed funding round. The funds will boost the company's research...
UC Davis chooses Healbe to validate fitness trackers for personalized nutrition
In California, the University of California, Davis, Foods for Health Institute, signed a five-year agreement with health and wellness start-up Healbe Corp. to validate...
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...
Purple Carrot and Fresh Del Monte Produce expand plant-based meal kit availability
In Massachusetts, Purple Carrot, the first and only 100 percent plant-based meal kit company, announced that Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. made a $4...
Bee-lieve it: MeliBio set to launch fermentation-based honey
In San Francisco, synthetic biology company MeliBio has held a private tasting event for what it claims to be the world’s first bee-free honey.
The...
Fermentation-based palm oil maker NoPalm graduates to demo scale
In the Netherlands, biotech firm NoPalm Ingredients has signed an agreement with NIZO Food Research to set up a demonstration-scale factory for its fermentation-based...
Nestlé invests $145 million in Aimmune to develop multiple food allergy therapies
In Switzerland, Nestlé Health Science invested $145 million in Aimmune Therapeutics to accelerate the development of innovative oral immunotherapy biologics designed to desensitize people...