Food Tech: Page 14

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    Sponsored by ENGIE Impact

    Cooking with power: implementing induction heat in commercial kitchens

    Transitioning to induction-based cooking is a key ingredient in decarbonizing commercial kitchens.

    By Charlie Linkenheil, Carbon Analyst at ENGIE Impact and Tanner Harris, Energy & Sustainability Strategic Advisor at ENGIE Impact • May 8, 2023
  • Packages of Hero Bread products, including Seeded Bread, Flour Tortillas, Classic White Bread, Classic Burger Buns and Classic Hot Dog Buns, are on plates with some products on a white marble surface.
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    Low-carb Hero Bread raises $15M and expands retail presence

    The better-for-you baked goods brand previously backed by Tom Brady and Kevin Durant will be in 2,300 stores nationwide by the end of May.

    By • May 5, 2023
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    Trendline

    Top 5 stories from Food Dive

    The food and beverage industry is changing rapidly and the actions companies take this year are likely to play a major role in defining their future. 

    By Food Dive staff
  • Overhead view of six glasses of fruit juice garnished with fruit and mint and with a straw. Clockwise from top left: kiwi, pineapple, apple, raspberry, peach, strawberry
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    How Better Juice and Louis Dreyfus Company use science to cut sugar in beverages

    The two businesses have developed enzymatic processes that turn natural sugars into beneficial nutrients — and, they say, keep drinks sweet.

    By • May 4, 2023
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    The Every Company and Alpha Foods partner to create plant-based food with animal-free eggs

    The joint development agreement is the first to bring a precision-fermentation-made ingredient to enhance meat analogs.

    By • May 3, 2023
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    Sponsored by Infor

    What’s driving AI and ML adoption in food and beverage manufacturing?

    AI has the potential to optimize all areas of food manufacturing, facilitating smart, industry-specific applications to improve every aspect of the supply chain.

    May 1, 2023
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    New startup brings the ramen experience to instant pasta

    Pasta Noodles Co. said it is bringing authentic Italian pasta packaged in a rapid cook cup, which cooks in three minutes in a microwave.

    By • April 28, 2023
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    Regenerative ag is driving food sustainability promises, but is it greenwashing?

    As companies like PepsiCo and General Mills enlist farmers to deliver on their lofty emissions reduction goals, experts are divided over whether the practice will produce tangible results.

    By , • April 27, 2023
  • Two halves of a breakfast sandwich with cultivated chicken sausage, a poached egg and spinach are stacked on top of each other on an orange plate on a white table with a yellow wall in the background.
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    Upside Foods announces cultivated ground chicken as its second product

    As it prepares for full regulatory approval, the company announced a new form of its meat that can be made faster, in greater quantities and less expensively than whole cuts, said Chief Operating Officer Amy Chen.

    By • April 24, 2023
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    Deep Dive

    Why General Mills is embarking on a farmer-driven regenerative agriculture strategy

    The CPG giant said its projects are less about setting stringent rules and more about listening to the producers who are familiar with their land.

    By • April 21, 2023
  • Dishes of food including spaghetti and meatballs, meat curry, pasta with meat sauce, rice and frisee salad fill a table. Four hands with utensils are scooping up some of the food.
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    Quorn mycoprotein becomes available as an ingredient

    This is the first time the fungi-derived substance, which has starred in branded meat analog products since 1985, will be widely available to other manufacturers.

    By • April 20, 2023
  • Several orange boxes of Juicy Marbles' Plant-Based Thick Cut Fillet tiled.
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    How Juicy Marbles is raising the steaks in plant-based meat

    The Slovenian company uses its technology — and irreverent sense of humor — to change the way people think of alternatives. 

    By • April 17, 2023
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    How ADM and Brightseed are using AI to expand microbiome potential

    The ingredients and commodity giant said the upstart’s technology will help it meet the growing demand for gut health products by identifying bioactive components in plants.

    By • April 13, 2023
  • A salad with Meati's fermented chicken breast.
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    Alternative proteins sector is growing and needs government support, reports say

    Three studies published by the Good Food Institute show significant progress and expansion in the plant-based, fermented and cell cultivated product segments.

    By • April 12, 2023
  • A person in a yellow shirt uses red chopsticks to pick up grilled cultivated chicken and ramen noodles in a green bowl.
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    Courtesy of Believer Meats
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    ADM partners with Believer Meats on cultivated products

    The agreement brings the global food giant’s ingredients and nutritional expertise to enhance cultured meat items, and lays out a path to potentially produce them for commercialization.

    By • April 12, 2023
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    Plant-based sales hit $8B in 2022

    The segment posted 6.6% growth during a year marked by inflation and supply chain upheaval, which the Plant Based Foods Association says proves its staying power.

    By • April 11, 2023
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    Despite dire warnings in climate report, HowGood sees promise in food production

    The sustainability platform’s chief innovation officer Ethan Soloviev said in an interview that carbon sequestration and deforestation provide solutions to food insecurity despite Big Food’s impact on emissions.

    By • April 3, 2023
  • A brown paper package of Supplant Grain & Stalk Pasta sits to the right on a white wooden table with noodles in front of it and wheat stalks behind. The background is marbled gray.
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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 • March 30, 2023
  • A small sausage and pepper sandwich on a roll sits on a wooden cutting board on a brown surface. A skillet of sauteed peppers is behind it.
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    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 • March 29, 2023
  • A white bowl with a salad that has three WunderEgg halves sits on a yellow surface. A pink-labeled package of WunderEggs is at right, and wooden salad tongs and salt and pepper shakers are at left
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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 • March 27, 2023
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    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
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    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 • March 23, 2023
  • Pieces of roasted and cooked cultivated chicken on a wooden cutting board
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    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 • Updated March 22, 2023
  • Future Farm launched its plant-based Future Burger in the U.S. in July 2021.
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    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 • March 20, 2023
  • Overhead view of a bowl of Shiru's OleoPro fat with a spoon lying on top of it. The background is green and features Shiru's logo.
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    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 • March 16, 2023
  • A close up view of a rendering of Believer Meats' commercial facility. The entry portion is navy blue with many windows and Believer's logo. Lower beige wings with navy blue roofs are on the sides.
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    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 • March 15, 2023