Food Tech
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Supplant upcycles wheat stalks into flour
The company’s second commodity ingredient made from transforming food waste is available for foodservice and in a direct-to-consumer dried pasta.
By Megan Poinski • March 30, 2023 -
Cultivated meat maker New Age Eats shuts down
Founder and CEO Brian Spears said the company’s financial woes had nothing to do with the segment’s viability.
By Megan Poinski • March 29, 2023 -
Explore the Trendline➔
Drew Angerer via Getty ImagesTrendlineThe Food Dive Outlook on 2023
Continued volatility, a focus on sustainability and technology playing a bigger role in giving consumers what they want are playing a huge part in the trends we see for 2023.
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WunderEgg cracks the plant-based hard boiled egg
The new offering from Crafty Counter has drawn incredulous responses on social media as it starts hitting store shelves.
By Megan Poinski • March 27, 2023 -
Sponsored by GNT
3 lessons for how color can stop the scroll
Plant-based color brand EXBERRY® by GNT highlights three color roadmaps these creatives are using to stop the scroll, spark a consumer connection and drive sales.
March 27, 2023 -
Biotechnology should be used to improve nutrition, sustainability and resiliency of food, Biden report says
The new document sets out “bold goals” to improve areas that include human health and supply chain management. It follows a September executive order that made this kind of technology a national priority.
By Megan Poinski • March 23, 2023 -
Race for regulation of cell-based meat
Eat Just gets FDA clearance for cultivated meat in US
Good Meat chicken, which has been approved for sale in Singapore since 2020, is the second cell-based meat item to get the first green light from the federal government.
By Megan Poinski • Updated March 22, 2023 -
Why Future Farm is getting into plant-based milk and honey
The Brazilian company known for its meat analogs is expanding its platform, making plans to provide varieties of many food items found on the farm.
By Megan Poinski • March 20, 2023 -
Shiru launches plant-based fat as its first ingredient
OleoPro, developed with the company’s artificial intelligence platform, combines proteins and unsaturated oil for functions similar to animal ingredients with less saturated fat.
By Megan Poinski • March 16, 2023 -
Believer Meats promotes its COO to the CEO slot
Gustavo Burger joined the cultivated meat maker last year, playing a key role in building an operations team with CPG experience as the company builds a facility in North Carolina and prepares to launch.
By Megan Poinski • March 15, 2023 -
How The Better Meat Co. scrambled to meet payroll after the SVB collapse
CEO and co-founder Paul Shapiro said a fast and unexpected loss of access to capital was one scenario the company wasn’t prepared to handle.
By Megan Poinski • March 14, 2023 -
Food startups describe a ‘roller coaster of emotions’ as Silicon Valley Bank collapsed
Many companies with accounts at the bank were showing off their products at Natural Products Expo West as news went out, sending many founders into a frenzy.
By Megan Poinski • March 14, 2023 -
Kraft Heinz and NotCo launch plant-based NotMayo
The product is the second to come from the joint venture between the CPG giant and the food tech unicorn. It will get to store shelves this month before gradually expanding nationwide.
By Megan Poinski • March 10, 2023 -
How Bonumose’s new tagatose facility moves better-for-you sweeteners forward
The Virginia plant producing the rare sugar officially opened this month, making a supply of the healthier stand-in for sucrose available for manufacturers.
By Megan Poinski • March 9, 2023 -
Impossible Foods launches a healthier version of its signature plant-based beef
Impossible Beef Lite, which is intended as a replacement for 90/10 lean meat from cows, has 45% less total fat than its animal-based counterpart.
By Megan Poinski • March 9, 2023 -
Four in 10 consumers will buy food made through precision fermentation
A recent study done by Hartman Group in partnership with Cargill and Perfect Day found the willingness to try products increases with education about how they’re made and their sustainability benefits.
By Megan Poinski • March 8, 2023 -
Next Gen Foods buys plant-based gelato maker Mwah
The buzzy company that created chicken analog Tindle led the seed round for the U.K. frozen treat maker last year, and will be showcasing its products at Natural Products Expo West this week.
By Megan Poinski • March 6, 2023 -
Motif FoodWorks enters molecular farming partnership to produce its heme ingredient
The food tech company is teaming with IngredientWerks to try to make Hemami in corn plants, a development that could save money and energy.
By Megan Poinski • March 2, 2023 -
Meati hires CPG veterans for supply chain and operations
As the mycelium meat analog company prepares for a national retail launch this year, Elizabeth Fikes and Joseph Johnston have been hired to run more traditional manufacturing functions.
By Megan Poinski • March 2, 2023 -
Daiya’s new fermentation technology promises improved plant-based cheese
CEO Michael Watt said items made using the new method will have a taste, melt and mouthfeel more like their dairy counterparts.
By Megan Poinski • Updated March 1, 2023 -
Cargill enters alternative fats partnership with Cubiq Foods
The co-development and go-to-market agreement was part of the agribusiness giant’s investment in the Spanish plant-based and cultivated ingredients startup last year.
By Megan Poinski • March 1, 2023 -
Moolec Science grows molecular farming awareness with Nasdaq debut
The company, which went public through a SPAC merger late last year, is highlighting its technology and the opportunities it could bring to the food system.
By Megan Poinski • Feb. 28, 2023 -
General Mills discontinues animal-free cream cheese Bold Cultr
A note on the website of the first Big Food product to use precision fermentation dairy says the company decided to “deprioritize funding” for the startup brand.
By Megan Poinski • Feb. 28, 2023 -
Opinion
Finding and creating value in food waste
Our system needs to be circular and mimic nature, where nothing is lost, writes Pete Pearson, global initiative lead for the food circularity program at World Wildlife Fund.
By Pete Pearson • Feb. 27, 2023 -
Beyond Meat hits earnings expectations, but continues to struggle with sales
CEO Ethan Brown said operational changes are starting to work, and reaffirmed the expectation to be cash flow positive by the second half of 2023.
By Megan Poinski • Feb. 24, 2023 -
Mush Foods launches mycelium ingredient to blend with meat
The Israel-based company says that its offering, a blend of roots from three kinds of mushrooms, can match the texture, taste and nutrition of beef in a hybrid product.
By Megan Poinski • Feb. 23, 2023