Meat, fish and savory ingredients

SPECIAL REPORT: Plant-based meat formulation in focus, from Beyond Meat to Motif FoodWorks, Roquette, and Cargill: ‘The meat alternative space has the fastest iteration cycles out there’

27-Jul-2021 By Elaine Watson

If you look at the ingredients lists of most plant-based burgers, they’re not wildly different – a combination of extruded plant proteins, hard and liquid fats, natural flavors, yeast, methylcellulose, starch, seasonings and perhaps added vitamins and...

IFT FIRST: Alternative protein must move beyond plant-based & taste to reach full market potential

27-Jul-2021 By Elizabeth Crawford

While the alternative protein category is far from saturated and there is plenty of runway for innovation, investors predict a shaking out of players is on the horizon, and they say the companies that remain in the game will be those that move beyond...

Consumers feel the squeeze of inflation, over half have changed their purchasing behaviors

26-Jul-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

As many food and beverage companies face the pressure of increased costs to manufacture and transport their products, consumers have also reported feeling the impact inflation is having on their grocery bills.

Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: Demand for low-carb options rises as more consumers emerge from lockdowns

26-Jul-2021 By Elizabeth Crawford

Sourdough bread and stretchy pants may have been all the rage during the early days of the pandemic, but as vaccines become more prevalent and US consumers begin to reemerge from lockdowns, they increasing are turning to keto-bread and other low-carb...

US chilled prepared food market ripe for disruption, says FreshRealm after raising $32m to build national infrastructure for fresh

22-Jul-2021 By Elaine Watson

Wander around leading UK food retailers and you’ll see aisles of fresh prepared meals, soups, salads and desserts, dominated by private label. So, will the US market move in the same direction?

Stryve set to go public: 'Our company has an absolute lock on biltong'

20-Jul-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Growing biltong brand Stryve, which also owns Kalahari Snacks, making it the #1 air-dried meat snack brand in the US, has completed a business combination with Andina Acquisition Corp III, a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).

Sensient Technologies acquires assets of Flavor Solutions Inc.

19-Jul-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Sensient Technologies has acquired the assets of New Jersey-based Flavor Solutions, a custom product and flavor development company serving the food, beverage, and nutraceutical industries. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Walmart and Costco lead the way in return of in-store shopping, while dollar stores gain ground

19-Jul-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

While many consumers have incorporated some form of e-commerce into their grocery shopping routines, an increasing number are indicating their preference for their pre-pandemic in-store shopping trips, according to survey results from The Feedback Group.

Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: QVC, live-streaming help brands drive discovery, trial among at-home shoppers

19-Jul-2021 By Elizabeth Crawford

Live-stream shopping is emerging as a new frontier for food and beverage brands as homebound consumers during the pandemic looked for safe ways to discover products and stock their pantries and brands seek novel ways to tell their stories and drive trial...

Plant-based chicken space heats up as Impossible Foods enters fray with nuggets

16-Jul-2021 By Elaine Watson

The plant-based chicken category is heating up with Impossible Foods unveiling plans to enter the market in the fall with soy-based nuggets, going head to head with rival Beyond Meat, which has just launched pea-, and faba bean-based tenders.

‘The most sustainable option in the food industry…’ Noblegen opens CAD$500m Series C round to commercialize suite of ingredients from ancient microbe euglena gracilis

15-Jul-2021 By Elaine Watson

Canadian startup Noblegen has opened a CAD$500m Series C capital raise as it seeks to commercialize a suite of products from the ‘ancient microorganism’ euglena gracilis, which can produce everything from proteins that behave like animal proteins, to...

Conagra Brands battles inflation with increased prices and continued innovation

14-Jul-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

As grocery buying settles into a new, less-frenzied norm, many major food companies including Conagra Brands are dealing with the rising costs of doing business in an inflationary environment by raising the prices of their finished products.

Wanted: Chicken or fish alternatives that 'replicate or outperform' animal products... XPRIZE unveils semi-finalists in $15m global 'Feed the Next Billion' competition

14-Jul-2021 By Elaine Watson

From Air Protein - a startup manufacturing protein out of thin air*; to Meati Foods and Atlast Foods - fungi-fueled firms making whole cut ‘meats’ from mycelium; to a flurry of cell-cultured meat players including BlueNalu, GOOD Meat, and Wildtype; 28...

‘We are excited to understand its potential’: Nestlé confirms move to explore cultured meat sector

13-Jul-2021 By Oliver Morrison

The world’s largest food company has confirmed it is eyeing the cultured meat sector after a leaked report revealed a tie-up with Israeli cell-based start-up Future Meat Technologies.

Executive order targets ‘big ag,’ other ‘monopolies’ to help small farmers, entrepreneurs & food system weaknesses

13-Jul-2021 By Elizabeth Crawford

Citing “abusive actions by monopolies,” including “big ag,” that “lead to mass layoffs, higher prices, [and] fewer options for workers and consumers,” President Joe Biden Friday signed a sweeping executive order that tasks more than a dozen agencies with...