Mycoprotein and fungal proteins hope to offer a solution to the negative impact to the environment associated with industrial farming, heard FoodNavigator’s recent Climate Smart Food digital summit.
Mycoprotein supplier ENOUGH has raised €40m to scale up production in the Netherlands. And if global demand increases, the company will look to replicate its model further afield, CEO Jim Laird tells FoodNavigator.
One of the key challenges in finding alternative protein sources to meat and dairy is trying to provide consumers with the health aspects, especially high-quality protein, that they expect from animal products. Mycoprotein, as FoodNavigator found out...
Researchers from Northumbria University in the UK found that swapping red and processed meat for Quorn’s mycoprotein, a fungi-based meat alternative, leads to a significant reduction in intestinal genotoxins - which can cause bowel cancer - and increases...
Vegetarian diets are often characterised as healthy options delivering higher nutritional quality. But the surge seen in recent years of plant-based analogue products that many classify as ultra-processed has placed this reputation under pressure. Are...
When it comes to proteins, says Christian Koolloos, chief business development officer at Dutch startup The Protein Brewery, boring is good. In fact, the blander the better: “Fermotein [his firm’s fermented fungi protein] is extremely boring in its profile...
The meat alternatives company has given its latest innovation challenge award to a French start-up with new technology that differs from conventional extrusion.
The companies have tasked start-ups, via the next Future Food-Tech innovation challenge, to make products that can mimic whole meat cuts and deliver newer gastronomic experiences to consumers.
Plant-based food manufacturer Quorn Foods is facing strike action at its Billingham factory over a pay dispute. As union officials warn this could lead to supermarket shortages, the company says continued supply is of the ‘utmost importance’.
Quorn Foods, a pioneer in the plant-based category, is expanding its culinary innovation team. Tim Ingmire, Head of Research, Development & Quality, tells FoodNavigator the investment will help ‘identify the next big product opportunities’.
The UK’s advertising watchdog has judged an advert for Quorn Thai Wonder Grains – which makes claims about the product’s climate footprint and impact on climate change – ‘likely to mislead’ consumers.
We no longer have the luxury of tackling obesity and climate change separately, says Quorn’s sustainable development manager Tess Kelly, who revealed the brand is committed to launching a complete nutritional review of its product portfolio.
Swedish start-up Mycorena has developed a fungi-based ingredient for vegan products. Targeting the B2B – rather than the B2C – market, the mycoprotein producer is hoping to make a splash in a category largely dominated by alternative protein brand Quorn...
Quorn, the world’s largest meat alternative brand, has said it plans to adopt carbon labelling. ‘We believe all food brands should do the same,’ marketing director Alex Glen tells FoodNavigator.
Quorn has been using a mix of R&D and marketing to ferment growth and capitalise on rising demand for meat-free products at home and overseas, CEO Kevin Brennan tells FoodNavigator.
Quorn Foods is remaining quiet on reports that acquisition firm Nomad Foods and chip giant McCain Foods are preparing takeover bids for the meat-free food manufacturer, as it revealed a 50% boost in production capacity to meet surging export demand.
Most UK consumers would recognise Quorn as a meat-free product, and advertisements for Quorn sausages, burgers and other products therefore do not need to specifically say that they do not contain meat, the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has...
UK-based Premier Foods will add Quorn, a meat alternative, to its
product lineup with an agreement to acquire Marlow Foods from
Montagu Private Equity for £172m (€258m).
The UK joined the ongoing and heated debate about the meat
alternative product Quorn this week when the UK Food Standards
Agency (FSA) rejected claims by an American organisation that the
mycoprotein Quorn is unsafe.
Marlow Foods, the British company which makes the meat substitute
Quorn has been put up for sale by its parent company, the
AstraZeneca pharmaceuticals group.
Producers of the meat alternative Quorn claim it tastes like
chicken, while a consumer group is insisting that Americans be told
it is a fungus and that the FDA should carry out a complete review
of the product's safety.
A consumer group is accusing the marketer of a fungus-based meat
substitute of "deceptive labelling" and has filed a
complaint with the US Food and Drug Administration, Advertising Age
reports.
