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Study looks into whether picky eating habits follow a child into adolescence

22-May-2019 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Do picky eating habits when children are toddlers follow them into their teenage years? And should parents be concerned that their picky eaters aren't getting as many nutrients as their non-picky eater peers?

Investing in the Future of Food: Founding partner of VC Fifty Years shares 3 areas ripe for investment

22-May-2019 By Elizabeth Crawford

In the past decade, venture capitalists have emerged as a primary gatekeeper for innovation in the food and beverage industry as the amount of money they are pouring into startups in the space continues to rise exponentially, and so-called big-food continues...

Sun Basket seals $30m Series E investment ramping up automation, personalization, and healthy meal offerings

21-May-2019 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Meal kit service Sun Basket has closed $30m in a Series E investment led by PivotNorth Capital to accelerate its direct-to-consumer business offering AI-powered meal personalization and meal plans from breakfast to dinner.

Kashi drops ‘LEAN’ and plays up ‘GO’ in rebranding of its cereal line to inspire positivity

21-May-2019 By Elizabeth Crawford

Recognizing that ‘dieting’ and weight-management have fallen out of style among health-conscious consumers, the natural and organic cereal company Kashi is rebranding its top-selling GOLEAN cereal line as Kashi GO to better align with consumers’ expanding...

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Lidl to reach 100 US stores by end of next year

20-May-2019 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Lidl, a predominantly private label retailer, will open 25 new stores in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia by next spring. By the end of 2020, Lidl said it expects to operate more than 100 stores.

PepsiCo patents co-fermented oat and dairy product with 'unique' nutritional profile

20-May-2019 By Niamh Michail

PepsiCo has patented a process to co-ferment oats and dairy milk, creating a drinkable or spoonable product with "unique" metabolites and a versatile taste profile.

Mars breathes life into its new mission by partnering with a non-profit to help close DC food gap

20-May-2019 By Elizabeth Crawford

With conscious consumerism on the rise and potential employees increasingly evaluating companies based on their values, Mars Inc. isn’t wasting any time implementing the new mission it unveiled in March.

Spero Foods seeks capital to ramp up manufacturing for plant-based eggs, cheese

17-May-2019 By Elaine Watson

Plant-based meat, eggs and dairy products that precisely replicate their animal-based counterparts might be more sustainable, but they’re not always more nutritious, and often come with a lengthy ingredients list and a high degree of ‘processing,’ says...

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Sprouts Farmers Market builds retail brand awareness targeting new markets

17-May-2019 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Half of the new stores Sprouts is opening in 2019 will be in new markets, helping to build its brand awareness across the US, said interim Co-CEO Bradley Lukow at the BMO Capital Market Farm to Market Conference.

Euromonitor: What's the driving force behind plant-based eating?

17-May-2019 By Mary Ellen Shoup

The bulk of the plant-based eating trend is being driven by consumers who are trying to do their part to help the environment by cutting down their meat intake, as opposed to completely eliminating meat products by following a vegetarian or vegan diet,...

Lawsuit vs Miyoko's Kitchen challenging plant-based 'butter' is voluntarily dismissed

17-May-2019 By Elaine Watson

A high-profile lawsuit against Miyoko’s Kitchen taking issue with its use of the term ‘butter’ on a plant-based product, has been voluntarily dismissed with prejudice.

Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Symrise shares 4 ways that plant-based eating is becoming more sophisticated

17-May-2019 By Elizabeth Crawford

While the rapid growth of the plant-based market in the US initially may have been fueled by demand for alternatives to animal-protein and -dairy, the trend is quickly evolving as consumers’ tastes become more sophisticated and they begin to embrace plants...

Better-for-you frozen food brand Luvo pushes forward the idea of food as medicine with new bundles

16-May-2019 By Elizabeth Crawford

With the addition of an advisory board member who is a certified physician and chef, the better-for-you frozen meal company Luvo is creating new products that it hopes will help lay a foundation for packaged food to one day be considered a health management...

Investing in the Future of Food: RangeMe helps startups become shelf ready & business savvy

15-May-2019 By Elizabeth Crawford

Under pressure to beat the competition or secure returns for investors, most startups want to get on store shelf as fast as possible, but first they must checkoff a litany of minimum requirements that can turn into unexpected roadblocks if they don’t...

Startup Steeped takes offers a single-brew coffee option with a third of the packaging of pods

14-May-2019 By Elizabeth Crawford

Mounting consumer complaints about the generally lower coffee quality or waste created by many single-serve brewing options, pushed startup Steeped to create an elegant solution that is more sustainable than the ubiquitous pods on the market and that...