‘All about health’: Bebop takes dairy-free ice cream across APAC
Bebop is targeting APAC markets with a dairy-free, plant-fat ice cream as it seeks to scale beyond Taiwan
Bebop is dairy-free and made entirely with plant fats, using a blend of ingredients including cashew, coconut, almond, oats, soy and rice to recreate the creaminess and texture of conventional ice cream.
The brand was created to address what GTE Foods sees as a tension in the ice cream category: consumers enjoy the product but may associate it with indulgence, bloating and high calorie content.
Roasted edamame taps high-protein, clean-label snack demand
As demand grows for high-protein and clean-label snacks, Zenko is betting roasted edamame can offer consumers a natural alternative to processed protein products
Zenko positions itself as a clean-label snack brand using naturally nutrient-dense ingredients. It is known to transform ancient superfoods into modern nutritious snacks. Its most recent launch is edamame – a well-known Asian ingredient that is both familiar yet unique as a snack.
Consumer acceptance and food safety key to biobased packaging adoption
Experts say consumer acceptance and food safety concerns, including technical and regulatory barriers, remain key hurdles to wider adoption of biobased packaging
Biobased packaging could offer food and beverage manufacturers an alternative to conventional petroleum-based plastics, but its wider adoption remains constrained by technical, economic, regulatory and consumer barriers.
A review published in Foods identified challenges including mechanical performance, barrier properties, scalability, migration and toxicological safety, while also highlighting the gap between consumers’ intentions to choose sustainable packaging and their willingness to pay for it.
Can premium breakfast cereals take the leap in Asia? Blue Frog thinks so
New Zealand breakfast cereal brand Blue Frog sees opportunities to premiumise Asia’s breakfast market as consumers
Blue Frog founder and CEO Scotty Baragwanath said he was inspired by cereals he made for his children and by a perceived gap in the market for premium, minimally processed breakfast products.
Top 10 shortlist announced for FoodNavigator’s Global Food Tech Awards EMEA heat
The 2026 shortlist of startups take on industry challenges around scalable food waste reduction, nutrition and food safety
Mounting pressures across the food system are driving demand for solutions that make food production more resilient, affordable, safe and sustainable.
For the food industry, these pressures highlight the need for new solutions to reduce food waste, strengthen food safety and recall strategies and sustainably scale alternative ingredients and production methods that deliver healthier, functional foods.
