Health and nutritional ingredients

Evolve BioSystems gets $55 million investment led by Cargill

10-Feb-2021 By Hank Schultz

Evolve BioSystems has announced $55 million in funding from Cargill and a private equity firm to bring its infant probiotic to market scale.

Calling all wellness snack brands: Mondelēz SnackFutures launches CoLab startup program

09-Feb-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Mondelēz SnackFutures – the company's innovation and venture hub – has launched CoLab, a "startup engagement" program, targeting snack brands in the wellness space as the global snacking giant digs deeper into the startup community.

Unilever and Kellogg discuss innovation priorities for 2021: From gut health to next gen plant proteins

09-Feb-2021 By Oliver Morrison

Kellogg Company and Unilever are calling on start-ups to help tackle some of the most critical issues facing the food and industry.

Unilever unveils ambitious 5-prong plan to drive 3-5% sales growth in coming years

09-Feb-2021 By Elizabeth Crawford

Investors appear skeptical of Unilever’s ambitious five-prong plan to drive sales growth of 3-5% in the coming years after it saw only a 1.9% increase in sales in 2020 and a 5.8% decline in underlying profits in a year when many CPG companies saw significantly...

Cerebelly receives The Clean Label Project Purity Award confirming its products are free from heavy metals

08-Feb-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Cerebelly has received The Clean Label Project Purity Award -- which independently test products for over 400 contaminants including heavy metals, chemicals, plastics, pesticides, and other toxins -- for its full line of shelf-stable pureed baby food...

Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Immunity-boosting ingredients, diets rival comfort food for center stage in 2021

08-Feb-2021 By Elizabeth Crawford

Even though the coronavirus vaccine is slowly, albeit a bit unsteadily, rolling out, a recently published survey of dietitians predicts Americans in 2021 will continue to seek protection from COVID-19 and its rapidly spreading variants from food and beverages...

Brightfield Group: Reaching the COVID-concerned consumer with empathetic brand marketing

05-Feb-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Stressed by COVID-19 and its financial and emotional ripple effects, consumers have turned to functional food as a stress-reducing and health-boosting tool to get through the pandemic, recent consumer insights from market research firm Brightfield Group...

Representatives Schrader and Griffith re-introduce bipartisan CBD bill

05-Feb-2021 By Stephen Daniells

The Hemp and Hemp-Derived CBD Consumer Protection and Market Stabilization Act has been re-introduced in the US House of Representatives with the aim of making hemp and hemp-derived CBD a dietary ingredient in dietary supplements.

Tovala, the smart oven meal service with Peloton-like retention rates, raises $30m in Series C funding

04-Feb-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Tovala – a meal service paired with a multi-function smart oven – has closed a $30m in Series C funding led by New York-based investment group, Left Lane Capital, bringing the company’s funding total to over $50m.

Jellatech carves novel path in alt protein market with animal-free, cell-based collagen, gelatin

04-Feb-2021 By Elaine Watson

Right now, you can extract collagen proteins from animal skin, bones, and connective tissue, or you can produce them via microbial fermentation, without slaughtering animals (engineering bacteria to produce the target proteins). But there’s also a third...

Bowery Farming appoints former Google exec as CTO

03-Feb-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

New York City-based vertical farming company, Bowery Farming, has appointed former Google Internet of Things (IoT) VP and general manager, Injong Rhee, as its new chief technology officer (CTO) responsible for accelerating the integration of proprietary...

Moku mushroom jerky targets health-conscious meat eaters: 'We want to build a clean label meat alternative brand platform'

03-Feb-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Moku, an emerging mushroom jerky brand, is laying down the foundation to build a highly-scalable, clean label meat alternative platform under a strategic partnership with Siddhi Capital, say co-founders Matt Feldman and Melissa Facchina.

Talking Rain talks sustainability efforts and 'extremely big expectations' for 2021

02-Feb-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Addressing its natural gas use and fleet emissions, Talking Rain (maker of Sparkling ICE) is funding over 28,000 metric tons of carbon reduction offsets through taking on ownership of three land projects in need of environmental clean up. But what significance...

World first: Geltor gears up for mid-2021 launch of vegan collagen for food, beverage, nutrition markets

02-Feb-2021 By Elaine Watson

Geltor – which has developed a computational biology platform to create a range of ‘designer’ functional proteins via microbial fermentation - is gearing up for the commercial launch of the world’s first ingestible ‘animal-free’ vegan collagen for the...

Nutritional Growth Solutions expands kids nutrition shake portfolio with acquisition of KidzShake

01-Feb-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Nutritional Growth Solutions, Ltd. (NGS), parent company of Healthy Height kids protein shake mixes, has acquired nutritional shake brand KidzShake and has announced plans to enter the US medical market.