Food Tech: Page 2

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    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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    Trendline

    The 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.  

    By Food Dive staff
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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
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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
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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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    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
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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
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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
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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
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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
  • Two sandwich halves are stacked high with deli slices that look like turkey made from The Better Meat Co.'s Rhiza protein, with a company logo flag on a toothpick stuck in one.
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    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 • March 14, 2023
  • Darko Mandich and Aaron Schaller stand at a colorful booth for the Mellody brand with a branded backdrop and a table in front of them with sample spoons of honey.
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    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 • March 14, 2023
  • Front and back views of the packaging for NotMayo. It features a mayonnaise jar with a black label and lid, and bold magenta and white lettering.
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    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 • March 10, 2023
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    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 • March 9, 2023