Meat, fish and savory ingredients

EFSA says mealworms safe for human consumption: ‘An important milestone towards commercialisation’

14-Jan-2021 By Katy Askew

The European Food Safety Authority has published its first scientific opinion on an insect-derived food. The conclusion? Mealworms are safe for human consumption.

Tyson Foods invests $26m in expanding Texas bacon plant

13-Jan-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Tyson Foods is investing $26m to expand production at its Wright Brand Bacon facility in Vernon, Texas. The expansion project is scheduled for completion in March 2021.

FreshDirect shares top 2021 food trends fueled by the pandemic

12-Jan-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

The trend of home cooking and kitchen creativity, which scores of households exhibited last year will stick around in 2021 solidifying the dining table as the centerpiece of family eating, says New York-based online grocery retailer FreshDirect which...

Nanofiber scaffolding startup Matrix Meats in ‘active development relationships with 14 cultivated meat producers’

12-Jan-2021 By Elaine Watson

Matrix Meats – an Ohio-based startup developing customizable nanofiber scaffolds for cell-cultured (a.k.a. ‘cultivated,’ ‘cell-based’) meat production – has completed a seed round to help expand its team and develop partnerships in the nascent industry.

Air Protein raises $32m to create sustainable 'meat' from microbes... and thin air

07-Jan-2021 By Elaine Watson

Air Protein – one of a new wave of startups producing proteins via microbes rather than plants or animals – has raised $32m in a Series A as it gears up to commercialize meat alternatives made from a complete protein it argues will blow rivals out of...

Impossible Foods slashes foodservice prices again, despite ‘skyrocketing’ demand: ‘It’s the first cut of 2021 but it won’t be the last’

06-Jan-2021 By Elaine Watson

While cutting prices when demand is “skyrocketing” is somewhat unorthodox, Impossible Foods’ latest double-digit price cut to foodservice distributors reflects its growing economies of scale and mission to make plant-based meat a more accessible and affordable...

TurtleTree Labs aims to produce growth factors for cell cultured meat, milk, at 'fraction' of price of pharma grade equivalents

06-Jan-2021 By Elaine Watson

For cell-cultured meat to be commercially viable, we’ll need to see significant movement in the price and availability of growth factors (signaling proteins that stimulate cell growth and differentiation) says startup TurtleTree Labs, which has created...

2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans 'miss the mark' on added sugar, suggest “shifts” in protein consumption to “add variety"

29-Dec-2020 By Elaine Watson

The 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines advise Americans to watch their sugar and alcohol consumption but fall short of recommending the drastic cuts recently suggested by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC).

Frontline food industry workers prioritized for next phase of COVID-19 vaccination

21-Dec-2020 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Frontline food industry workers will be among the first to be vaccinated after health care workers and those in long-term care facilities, according to federal guidance approved by the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization...

Consumers will seek convenience, comfort, health from food in 2021 as they await ‘return to normalcy’

17-Dec-2020 By Elizabeth Crawford

Encouraged by the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine administered in the US this week, many Americans are eager for a return to normalcy in the new year, but they also recognize widespread inoculation and economic recovery will be slow and so they...

Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Health, comfort & sustainability will influence flavors in 2021, predicts Symrise

16-Dec-2020 By Elizabeth Crawford

As eager as many people are to shut the door on 2020, concerns about the coronavirus will follow us into the new year and continue to influence food and beverage preferences, predict trend spotters with Symrise, who forecast an increase in demand for...

Investing in the Future of Food: Food-tech investments target productivity, quality & sustainability

16-Dec-2020 By Elizabeth Crawford

Pandemic-fueled consumer demand for food that is healthier, more sustainable, ethically produced and easier to access has fueled a “burst of investment” in food-tech in 2020 that Finistere Ventures predicts will have a lasting impact on the industry long...

‘Made from mushrooms, tastes like bacon…’ Atlast Food Co launches consumer product, builds b2b strategy

15-Dec-2020 By Elaine Watson

Atlast Food Co – a New York-based startup unlocking a new category in the meat alternatives market (whole cuts) by growing huge slabs of fungi-based ‘meat’ from mushroom mycelium – expects construction to begin on a new production facility early next...

Surging feed prices will test recovery in US animal protein production

15-Dec-2020 By Jane Byrne

In the coming year, US livestock and poultry producers will face more feed cost inflation than they have in over a decade, challenging their ability to recover after a difficult and volatile 2020, finds a new report from CoBank.

Surging COVID cases trigger another wave of stockpiling, threatening inventory, but not like in Spring

15-Dec-2020 By Elizabeth Crawford

As the current wave of coronavirus cases crests the peak of the first, consumers once again are stockpiling essentials, although many manufacturers do not anticipate as great a sales lift as they saw in March and April at the beginning of the pandemic....