Amai Proteins has set out to address ‘the world’s biggest health challenge’: sugar reduction. The start-up is developing designer proteins that are not only sweeter than sugar, but tasty, scalable, sustainable, and importantly, cheaper than the real thing,...
JUST, Inc is eyeing international expansion. The San Francisco-based company is preparing to launch its plant-based scrambled egg alternative, Just Egg, in Europe, and according to senior sustainability and sourcing manager Udi Lazimy, Asia is...
The UK-based Real Bread Campaign has criticised mainstream brands for attempting to make fake sourdough recipes and creating a ‘sourfaux free-for-all’.
Bunge Loders Croklaan is expanding into the vegetarian burger category with a range of plant-based offerings – made from shea and palm fat – to help bring texture, bite, appearance, and flavour closer to the ‘real thing’.
Shea margarine start-up The Flower Farm has been advised to adjust communication suggesting the palm oil industry, as a whole, is responsible for deforestation in Southeast Asia. Co-founder Marcel van Wing tells FoodNavigator the statement was ‘pretty...
Trends towards health and wellness, plant-based and clean label will continue next year, but the need for food businesses to innovate is greater than ever, says consumer research.
This week’s new product development gallery brings you an R&D partnership between The Meatless Farm Co and Orchard Pig, a new flavour from energy drink challenger brand Tinzing, and the launch of a new vegan gummy company in the UK.
Retailers, brands, and their marketeers are ‘not doing enough’ to promote sustainably driven purchasing decisions in-store, RSPO CEO Datuk Darrel Webber tells FoodNavigator: “Sustainable products have to be front-and-centre to help consumers loosen their...
Having received EFSA’s nod of approval, Italian manufacturer Obà Food says it is the first to commercialise pasta made from fonio. “We are ahead of the curve”, founder and CEO Gabriele Fortunato tells FoodNavigator.
Israeli start-up Zero Egg has developed an all-purpose, plant-based egg replacement for food manufacturers, which it claims tastes, looks and functions like the real thing.
ProVeg International is calling on national governments to end ‘unfair’ VAT on plant milks, which it claims fiscally favours dairy products over their plant-based alternatives.
Israeli start-up FFW is championing yeast as a ‘major protein source’ – offering an alternative to soy and pea protein in the plant-based space, founder Leonardo Marcovitz tells FoodNavigator.
An alternative protein start-up has secured CHF 7m (€6.3m) in seed funding to build production capacity, invest in R&D, and expand into ‘key European markets’.
A television advertisement promoting Tesco’s new Plant Chef range has been criticised by the NFU for its messaging and ‘negative connotations’, which British farmers claim have caused them ‘significant distress’.
