Nuritas collaborates with BASF for on-demand discovery of new peptides
In Ireland, Nuritas announced a collaboration with BASF Human Nutrition that grants BASF an exclusive, royalty-based license to commercialize one of Nuritas’s existing peptides...
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...
Naplasol expands mycoprotein portfolio with Mycorena acquisition
In Belgium, Naplasol has acquired mycoprotein company Mycorena and plans to begin producing Mycorena’s mycoprotein, Promyc, at its industrial facility in Bree. The move...
Full flavor: MeaTech plans lab-grown chicken fat pilot plant
In Belgium, publicly traded cultured meat company MeaTech is planning a pilot plant to grow chicken fat in a lab. The new facility will...
Lots of nutrition information meets lots of confusion
In Washington, D.C., the International Food Information Council Foundation’s 12th Annual Food and Health Survey found that 96 percent of consumers seek health benefits...
To protect the global milk supply, Cornell and IBM use genetic sequencing and bioinformatics
In New York, IBM and Cornell University are using next-generation sequencing combined with bioinformatics to help reduce the chances that the global milk supply...
Breaking nugget news: Japanese scientists create lab-growth chicken with circulatory system
In Tokyo, researchers have created the world’s largest, and most advanced, lab-growth chicken nugget.
Featuring “veins” that deliver nutrients and oxygen, the new nugget...
DuPont Nutrition & Health and Inbiose partner to develop novel infant nutrition ingredients
In Missouri, DuPont Nutrition & Health and Inbiose partnered to jointly develop selected fucosylated human milk oligosaccharides for infant nutrition. HMOs are a group...
Let them eat macarons: Animal-free egg whites to debut in demanding baking application
In San Francisco, precision fermentation firm The EVERY Co. has unveiled animal-free egg whites and will soon prove their alternative’s “whipping and gelling” properties...
Ajinomoto brings Mankai high protein plant products to the Japanese market
In Japan, Ajinomoto Co., Inc. acquired the exclusive sales rights in Japan for Mankai, a variety of the aquatic plant duckweed, by investing USD...