Unilever is targeting annual sales of €1bn ($1.19bn - or around five times what it's selling today) from plant-based meat and dairy alternatives within five to seven years as part of a broader plan to make plant-based options more accessible, affordable...
Flourish – wheat flour that contains more than 5x the fiber of refined flour and twice the fiber of whole wheat flour, but looks and cooks like regular all-purpose flour – is making its debut on Amazon this week, marking brand owner Bay State Milling’s...
While consumer understanding of prebiotics may still be in its infancy, basic knowledge around the topic is growing as more food and beverage brands enter the category, finds Kara Landau, founder of prebiotic functional food brand Uplift Food.
Wicked Foods, one the UK’s top plant-based food brands available in more than 3,700 Tesco stores, will launch its product line – which will focus on ready-made, convenient meal solutions – in the US and Canada in the summer of 2021.
Astronauts typically consume only 80% of their daily calorie requirements when in space, which could prove problematic on a long 36-month journey to Mars. Fresh research, which reveals links between food flavour and food intake, could help solve this...
As America continues to struggle with the fallout from widespread, prolonged systemic racism, including its impact on the food system, intentionally designed co-ops could provide a path forward for traditionally disenfranchised groups to improve access...
Mars has acquired KIND North America, three years after taking a minority stake, and says the snack maker – which now has operations in 35 countries – will function “as a distinct and separate business within the Mars Family of Companies.”
Cincinnati-based Graeter’s Ice Cream, a 150-year-old family-owned company, and Perfect Day, a San Francisco-based startup producing animal-free milk proteins via microbial fermentation, have partnered to launch “Perfect Indulgence”, a line of frozen desserts...
Many plant-based dairy brands are built around ‘hero’ ingredients such as almond or coconut. At Eclipse Foods, by contrast, the mission is to replicate the taste and functionality of real dairy, and the brand, which could span multiple dairy platforms,...
Children’s dietary patterns are mostly set by the time they turn 2 years old, which doesn’t leave a lot of wiggle room for indulging picky eaters if caregivers want their kids to grow up eating – and liking – a wide variety of healthy, nutrient-dense...
Beyond Meat will gradually replace its flagship plant-based Beyond Burger in 2021 with two new variations: a “juicier and meatier” burger featuring 35% less saturated fat than 80/20 beef burgers, and its “most nutritious patty yet,” featuring 55% less...
Rip Van Winkle* slept for 20 years and woke up to find the world had completely changed. The founders of Rip Van came up with a snack while studying at Brown University in 2010 (inspired by Washington Irving’s famous fictional slumberer), worked like...
With the holidays approaching, half of US shoppers surveyed by Frito-Lay said they will be shopping for their holiday groceries online this year (up from 15% in 2019) with snacks being a top item for 77% of surveyed consumers.
TRUFF – best known for its luxury truffle-infused hot sauce – has expanded into the premium pasta sauce category, an area of the store co-founder Nick Ajluni feels is a natural evolution for the fast-growing brand, which has registered triple-digit sales...
While snacking was on the rise long before the coronavirus outbreak, new research from Mondelēz International shows the pandemic has turbo-charged the trend – spurring more people to snack more often, but for entirely different reasons than they did before...
