French head-quartered Ecotone placed biodiversity at the heart of its business when it because an Entreprise à Mission, incorporating the mission of ‘food for biodiversity’ into its articles of association. We speak to CEO Christophe Barnouin to learn...
French producer of microalgae ingredients, Microphyt, is leading a €15m mission to develop the world’s largest fully-integrated microalgae biorefinery which will see the production of new products and a five-fold increase in capacity.
PepsiCo has set out an ambition to cut the sugar in its drink brands and shift its snacks portfolio towards ‘healthier options’ in Europe. FoodNavigator hears more on how it plans to do just that.
Scientists have devised a novel way of tackling the mounting issue of plastic pollution… by using bacteria to transform plastic waste into vanilla flavouring.
Danone has sponsored a report that uses ‘deep social listening’ tools to track conversations about food. The research charts attitudes to personal and planetary health, as well as growing demand for a ‘fairer’ food system coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic....
Those who skip breakfast are more likely to miss out on several key nutrients considered to be “dietary components of public health concern” by the USDA’s latest dietary guidelines compared to those who reported eating breakfast, according to an analysis...
Mondelēz International has launched a food transparency programme in North America, which gives consumers insight into the journey of the white-winter wheat used in its Triscuit crackers from a coop of farmers’ fields in Michigan to where the crackers...
COVID-19 changed how consumers eat and shop. But as much of the world unlocks and we emerge into the ‘new normal’ of a post-COVID era, what trends will stick?
Spanish start-up Innomy is growing fungal mycelium on grains to ‘replicate the experience’ of eating ‘juicy and delicious’ meat, but with a substantially lower environmental impact, says the start-up’s CSO and co-founder Dr Francisco Kuhar.
A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, the University of Naples Federico II, the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, compared the efficiency of growing...
Israeli-based Salt of the Earth has applied its Mediterranean Umami Bold flavouring to lentil bites, presenting an opportunity to ‘overcome lentils’ natural blandness’.
