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December 2020
Meat-Tech purchases Peace of Meat, announces 3D printing advance
Israeli-based Meat-Tech 3D Ltd. has acquired Belgian cultured avian producer Peace of Meat PV for €15 million (US$18.2 million) and also announced more...
Eat Beyond bullish on alt-meat in Singapore
With less than 1% of land used for agricultural food production and more than 90% of food imported, according to a report on Nature.com, Singapore seems more...
Beyond Meat moves into pork
Beyond Meat has introduced a new product for the Chinese market trademarked as “Beyond Pork.” The product has about half the saturated and more...
Cultivated meat is having a moment
As far as consumer accessibility is concerned, plant-based meat substitutes have a long head start. But as 2020 draws to a close, it's the cultivated more...
Sweet Earth, parent Nestle target net zero greenhouse emissions
Nestle, the parent company of plant-based Sweet Earth Foods, has detailed a plan to halve the company’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reach more...
Plant & Bean to open largest analogue facility in Europe
Plant-based food product developer Plant & Bean is opening a production facility in the United Kingdom with a capacity of 55,000 metric tonnes (about more...
Modern Meat says it will expand in Australia, begin testing phase
Vancouver, British Columbia-based Modern Meat Inc. has announced that its signed a non-binding letter of intent to launch its plant-based protein product more...
Incogmeato donates more than $1M to hunger organization
To address the hunger crisis impacting America during difficult economic times, Incogmeato, a Morningstar Farms plant-based brand, has donated more than more...
Netanyahu tests cultivated steak, sees Israel as analogue ‘powerhouse’
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu became perhaps the first head of state to taste cultivated steak when he visited Aleph Farms, which grows meat more...
Franklin Farms partners with meal-kit company Purple Carrot
Plant-based protein maker Franklin Farms is partnering with analogue meal-kit company Purple Carrot to infuse Franklin’s offerings developed over more...
Impossible’s annual report chronicles company’s heady year
Impossible Foods has released its 2020 Impact Report, an annual report that details the company’s significant international expansion in a year more...
FoodChain ID introduces certification for analogues
Food safety, testing and sustainability organization FoodChain ID has created a certification program for vegetarian, vegan and plant-based foods. The more...
Nature’s Fynd raises $45M, adds four team members
Food-tech company Nature’s Fynd, which produces a nutritional fungi protein called Fy, has raised $34 million of venture debt and equipment financing more...
Hello, Goodbye
This is the last issue of The Analogue Dish that will arrive in your email inbox — to be replaced by our revamped newsletter, Alt-Meat News. Alt-Meat more...
Mosa Meat hits $75M with second closing of Series B
European food technology Mosa Meat, which in 2013 produced the first cultivated beef hamburger, announced an additional $20 million at the second closing more...
IFFA 2022 expands focus to include alternative proteins
Traditionally focused on animal meat, IFFA 2022, scheduled from May 14 to 19 in Frankfurt, Germany, will expand to include alternative proteins, as indicated more...
Wicked success leads to Wicked Foods launch in U.S.
U.K.-based plant-based food brand Wicked Foods, created by chefs and brothers Derek and Chad Sarno, will expand to the U.S. next summer.The company’s more...
Breaded Strips recalled due to undeclared wheat
Unmeatable brand Southern-style Breaded Strips have been recalled after Grand River Foods Ltd. determined they contained wheat, which is not listed on more...
Good Food Institute develops university course on alt-protein research
Multiple universities in Israel are offering a comprehensive course in alternative protein research developed by the Good Food Institute in Israel that more...
Eat Beyond Global Holdings welcomes new chairman, subsidiary’s analogue line
Global plant-based and alternative food investment issuer Eat Beyond Global Holdings has appointed sitting board member Don Robinson, the former CEO of more...
NPD research finds meat analogues more popular at foodservice
The NPD report “Eating Patterns in America” found that consumers are most interested in eating plant-based meat at foodservice and plant-based more...
Unilever shooting for $1.2 billion in plant-based business
Unilever has announced a goal of $1.2 billion in annual global sales from plant-based meat and dairy alternatives in the next five to seven years, which more...
Silva joins Very Good Food Co.
The Very Good Food Company Inc., based in Victoria, B.C., has hired Ana Silva as president beginning in January 2021. Very Good Food, which produces alt-meat more...
Modern Meat names head of global acquisitions, acquires JDW Distributors brands
Canadian analogue manufacturer Modern Meat Inc. has welcomed Craig Wallace as both an advisory board member and head of global acquisitions, who will more...
Tofurky is the alt-meat OG
That image to the left is not an EKG, at least not literally. It measures Google searches for "Tofurky" over the last 10 years, displaying a predictable more...
Lightlife expands Tempeh to 3,500 Walmart stores
The Tempeh product from plant-based brand Lightlife is now available on the shelves of 3,500 Walmart stores, up from 300, and more than 18,500 retail more...
Race to parity: Aleph takes the lead?
The No. 1 rap on any alternative meat product has been cost. Whether or not the products are close enough to the experience of eating conventional meat more...
Performance Foodservice launches plant-based protein line
Performance Foodservice is rolling out an extensive proprietary line of plant-based protein products under the Green Origin brand. Produced in partnership more...
November 2020
Kate Farms closes $51M Series B round
Kate Farms has finished a Series B round of funding with a raise of $51 million led by Goldman Sachs and with significant investments by Kaiser Permanente more...
Israeli analogue company opens a restaurant
Ness Ziona, Israel-based analogue company SuperMeat has opened The Chicken, a sustainable restaurant located in Tel Aviv that claims to be the world’s more...
Modern Meat acquires two Victoria’s locations, receives HACCP certification
Modern Meat Inc. has closed the purchase of two Victoria’s Health & Organic Bar retail outlets in Vancouver, British Columbia. The plant-based more...
McDonald’s tests McPlant
Ever since Burger King introduced the Impossible Whopper, people in the analogue space have wondered how and when McDonald’s would respond.That more...
Very Good Food to open Vancouver facility
The Very Good Food Company Inc. has signed a lease on a 45,000-square-foot facility in Vancouver, British Columbia, which will house production, refrigeration more...
How 'the category will evolve'
Not only are plant-based alt-meat grounds and patties the easiest things to make out of the formulations that have been developed in the category so far more...
Companies join forces around pulse-based protein functionality
Several plant-based ingredient companies are coming together to commercialize new technology that will improve the functionality of pulse-based proteins more...
Cie co-founds analogue firm Longève
Irvine, California-based venture studio and innovation accelerator Cie has co-founded a company called Longève that offers a variety of shelf-stable more...
The white-hot spotlight
Running at the front of the pack, taking center stage, and standing in the spotlight are thrilling when you have the chance to brag about something. An more...
No Evil Foods offers The Pardon ‘Holiday Centerpiece’
Although turkeys are traditionally served on Thanksgiving, those who are vegan, vegetarian, flexitarian or just not that keen on turkey once again have more...
Field Roast Grain Meat Co. partners with top chef
Analogue brand Field Roast Grain Meat Co. has entered into a multi-year partnership with chef Roy Choi under the banner, “Make Taste Happen,” more...
New Products: Before the Butcher, Franklin Farms
Before the Butcher has rolled out a line of ground plant-based protein packs under the Uncut brand name—Italian, breakfast, taco, chorizo and more...
AAK to build ‘Global Center of Excellence’ for plant-based foods
AAK, based in Zaandijk, the Netherlands, plans to build a Plant-based Foods Center of Excellence in alignment with its strategic direction in the analogue more...
Benson Hill raises $150M in series D $$
Plant-based ingredients maker Benson Hill has raised $150 million in Series D funding, led by Wheatsheaf and GV, along with a wide range of other strategic more...
Alpha Foods delivers analogue straight to your door
Frozen plant-based company Alpha Foods, which says it provides “plant-based takes on classic comfort foods” such as nuggets, burritos and more...
Meat-Tech 3D Ltd. lands additional funds, moves toward IPO
Ness Ziona, Israel-based cultivated meat company Meat-Tech 3D Ltd. announced it had closed on a fund raising round of $7 million, according to a press more...
Prime Roots plant-based proteins sprout at Whole Foods
Prime Roots is expanding its line of chef-prepared plant-based meals on the shelves at Whole Foods to include not only meatless “Bacon” Mac more...
Impossible Foods expands R&D & distribution in Canada & Asia
Impossible Foods plans to double the size of its research and development outfit, setting in motion the “Impossible Investigator” program more...
Finnebrogue Artisan plans plant-based factory
Food producer Finnebrogue Artisan, based in County Down, Northern Ireland, is building its fourth new factory in five years to handle what it sees as more...
Eat Just adds investments for plant in Asia, broker in Canada
Eat Just Inc. has teamed up with a consortium led by investment management firm Proterra Investment Partners Asia to build a plant protein production more...
Green Boy Group rolls out protein powder
Green Boy Group, a supplier of plant-based, non-GMO and organic ingredients, has introduced a line of functional, plant-based protein powders under the more...
No Evil goes plastic-negative
Small-batch analogue company No Evil Foods has made a commitment to recover and recycle double the amount of plastic waste they produce. In partnership more...
Alt-proteins drive ADM results
Whipsawing trade relationships make consistent performance difficult for companies like Archer Daniels Midland Inc., the commodities behemoth with plants more...
Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson teams to promote OZO’s analogues
The Planterra Foods OZO line of plant-based protein offerings is partnering with “Modern Family” actor and soon-to-be cookbook author Jesse more...
Aleph Farms’ mission: Bring cultivated meat to outer space
Astronauts on long-term space mission don’t get much fresh meat in their diets. But Aleph Farms, which grows steaks straight from non-GMO cells—not more...
Hooray for plant-based bacon
Vegan bacon maker Hooray Foods, which made its product available to select restaurants in late 2019, appeared on grocery shelves for the first time on more...
Protein accelerated fund launches in India
The India Alternative Protein Fund will launch next year to fund and otherwise support companies “bringing to market innovative plant-based, fermentation-derived more...
Nando’s launches plant-based chicken
South Africa-based Nando has launched The Great Imitator, the company’s first analogue product, an alternative chicken made form pea protein and more...
CPK introduces meatless BBQ chicken pizza
The classic barbecue chicken pizza from California Pizza Chicken has gotten a meatless makeover.The plant-based option with a gluten-free cauliflower more...
Rapeseed, for fuel and food
The soaring interest in plant-based alt-meat formulations over the last four years has expanded the applications for pea protein from a supplement for more...
October 2020
Impossible Foods teams with celebs on ‘Zoom to the Polls’ events
Impossible Foods has partnered with Slutty Vegan, Pinky Cole Foundation and Jermaine Dupri to host a series of “Zoom to the Polls” events more...
Bolthouse Farms grills up carrot 'hot dogs'
Hot dogs are typically made from beef, pork, or some combination thereof, or less frequently from other proteins such as chicken or turkey. But carrots?Bolthouse more...
Thai company turning jackfruit into plant-based pork
Thai analogue company NR Instant Produce Pcl, which in 2016 launched a jackfruit-based pork alternative, raised about $51.4 million (1.6 billion baht) more...
Meatless Farm introduces breakfast sausage in Canada
Meatless Farm, a British plant-based brand that’s had a line of analogue burgers, has introduced meat-free breakfast sausage patties throughout more...
Exclusive: Alt-protein sales rise into the fall
This item is contributed by Anne-Marie Roerink of 210 Analytics LLC, based on her research. The pandemic has prompted many changes in meal preparation more...
Modern Meat adds McNish to its dish
Globally renowned executive chief Doug McNish, who has helped bring vegan cuisine to the mainstream, has joined Vancouver-based Modern Meat Inc. as a more...
McDonald's Asia expands Omnipork partnership
McDonald's Hong Kong has expanded its partnership with Hong Kong-based plant-based pork substitute maker Green Monday with its new OmniPork Luncheon options more...
EU considering ban on terms like ‘veggie burger’
The European parliament considered whether to ban certain terms used to describe plant-based products. If the proposal passes, “veggie burgers” more...
Beyond Burger recognized for innovation
Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger was among 17 food and beverage brands to be recognized among Nielsen’s Top 25 Breakthrough Innovation winners more...
LIVEKINDLY Collective raises $135M to boost U.S. brand portfolio
International multi-brand analogue company the LIVEKINDLY Collective has raised $135 million in capital aimed at speeding up and scaling up a planned more...
Jack in the Box rolls out plant-based chicken sandwich
Analogue consumers in a few western towns now have a new item aimed at them on menus at Jack in the Box: the Jack’s Unchicken sandwich, also available more...
Beta test: Adding bells and whistles to analogues — and meat
The entrepreneurs making their mark in the plant-based alt-meat space call their businesses “food tech” and talk about rolling out new versions: more...
‘Iron Man’ star invests in product destined for iron stomachs
The French insect-farming startup Ÿnsect has raised $372 million, including $224 million in debt and equity from FootPrint Coalition, a green-focused more...
Kroger expands analogue offerings, including new Chick’n
The Simple Truth Plant Based line at Kroger will mushroom by more than 50 new offerings between now and the end of the year, bringing the natural and more...
What gives, kids?
One trend that has buoyed the prospects for alt-meat products, whether plant-based or other, has been the predictably higher levels of interest among more...
Modern Meat acquires brands' distribution rights
Modern Meat Inc. has signed a letter of intent to acquire brands from JDW Distributors LLC, the company said in a news release. Modern Meat, based in more...
Impossible now possible across Canada
Chefs and grocers from Nova Scotia to British Columbia will be debuting the Impossible Burger this fall, as parent company Impossible Foods makes its more...
Tesco looks to quadruple analogue sales over seven years
Supermarket giant Tesco, the largest retail in the United Kingdom, would like to sell four times as much alternative protein by 2025, as compared with more...
Analogues benefit from Rabobank's FoodBytes! program
Rabobank has selected 45 companies to participate in FoodBytes! Pitch 2020, its global food and ag startup discovery program that helps entrepreneurs more...
Beef Board invests in alt-meat countermeasures
In its recently approved fiscal 2021 budget, the Cattlemen’s Beef Board (CBB) more than $10 million in investments intended to disseminate "accurate" more...
New investments for Green Monday, Daring, Phytolon
Self-described Hong Kong-based “plant-based platform” Green Monday has led recent analogue investments with a $70 million funding more...
Hydrosol spins off plant-based unit
German ingredient company Hydrosol, which specializes in stabilizing and texturing systems, has spun off its unit that’s been focused on the plant-based more...
More new products: ADM, Nestle, Meat Avatar, Veggies Made Great, TGIFriday's
Archer Daniels Midland has introduced a few new plant-based protein ingredients for use in formulating analogue products. Two of them, Prolite MeatTEX more...
Before the Butcher hits price parity with its new burger
Plant-based meat analogue brand Before the Butcher has unveiled a new burger product that it promises will cost the same as ground beef, according to more...
New products: Beyond Meat, Lightlife, daring, Hormel Foods, Conagra, Pure Farmland, Target
Beyond Meat has taken the Beyond Burger to a new level north of the border. Produced at a new co-manufacturing facility in Quebec and available at more...
The 'flexitarian bounce'
While COVID-19 has spread internationally, consumers have professed to have become more aware of diet and its contributions to overall health.The upshot more...
Impossible now more possible in your kitchen
Those who enjoy cooking the Impossible Burger might want to pick up their copy of – no, we’re not kidding -- “Impossible: The Cookbook more...
September 2020
Beyond Meat to launch manufacturing facility in China
Beyond Meat soon will become the first multinational, plant-based meat specialty company to break ground on a major production facility in China.Wholly more...
Cultivated meat: The feds' big footprint
Despite the year's travails, 2020 has been a banner year for investment in meat analogues, including cultivated meat: In the first quarter of the year more...
Dr. Praeger’s talks Turk’y
Dr. Praeger’s Sensible Foods has introduced the Perfect Turk’y Burger, which the company says mimics the look, taste and texture of actual more...
Slow your alt-meat roll: Asia won't be easy
Plant-based protein companies are positively giddy about the prospect of Asian consumers picking up an alt-meat habit. Beyond Meat just days ago announced more...
Starbucks goes analogue in Asia
Starbucks Corp. plans to add plant-based food and beverage items to menus in several Asian countries, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand more...
Israel's Meat-Tech on the acquisition trail
Ness Ziona, Israel-based Meat-Tech 3D Ltd., a developer of industrial-scale cultivated meat production technologies based on advanced 3D bioprinting, more...
NotCo closes $85 million Series C round, eyes U.S. expansion
NotCo has announced the closing of an $85 million Series C investment round and says it plans to scale up operations in the United States.A Latin American more...
New products: American Flatbread, Dr. Praeger's, Impossible, Planterra, Beyond
Plant-based meat lovers have a new option for frozen pizza enjoyment with the Meatless Evolution line from American Flatbread.The flash-frozen vegetarian more...
Very Good Food has 4x revenue in Q2, signs lease for production facility
The Vancouver, British Columbia-based Very Good Food Company Inc. announced a 395% year-over-year revenue gain for alt-protein sales in the second quarter more...
Appeal underway against BK over Impossible Whopper claim
A lawsuit claiming that Burger King is telling a whopper by calling Impossible Whoppers vegan-friendly had all 10 claims dismissed on July 20, after the more...
Big Idea Ventures funds several analogue firms
Big Idea Ventures, a food tech accelerator focused on alternative proteins, has announced a second cohort of recipients for programs aimed at New York more...
Impossible becomes possible at Kroger, Sprouts; reaches 10K stores
Nearly 2,000 locations within Kroger’s “Family of Stores” across the country began offering newly released half-pound packages more...
Oh, grow up!
When Dan Curtin, CEO of Greenleaf Foods, which owned the Lightlife brand, took out a full-page ad in several national newspapers a week ago, calling more...
Meat alternatives continue aggressive growth
This item is contributed by Anne-Marie Roerink of 210 Analytics LLC, based on her research. Consumer interest in plant-based items was on the rise long more...
Bunge, Merit partner to accelerate pea and canola protein production
Merit Functional Foods and Bunge Limited have announced a partnership to accelerate the construction and opening of Merit’s Manitoba, Canada-based more...
Documentary touts cell-based protein
Canadian documentary maker Liz Marshall has released a film called “Meat the Future” that tells the story of cultivated meat through the journey more...
Morningstar lures flexitarians to bite on plant-based
Morningstar Farms, which produces the Incogmeato brand plant-based burgers, brats, sausage and chik’n nuggets, has given flexitarians a chance to more...
Burger King launches plant-based nuggets in Germany
Burger King will offer plant-based nuggets in Germany — no chickens involved — starting in September, the fast-food chain announced. “The more...
Analogue company JUST expects 2021 to be profitable, IPO to follow
The plant-based egg- and mayonnaise-maker JUST, which also has a cell-based chicken meat product under development, predicts that it will turn an operating more...
Nestle casts line with plant-based tuna
Nestle hopes to hook consumers with a new plant-based tuna alternative called Vuna. The product contains just six plant-based ingredients and includes more...
August 2020
Meat-Tech 3D announces meat printing development
Meat-Tech 3D Ltd. announced a significant development in the science of 3-D printing of cultivated meat: It successfully printed a uniform, thin, slaughter-free more...
Canadian government fertilizes Alberta-based analogue
During the economic downturn brought about by the coronavirus, the federal government of Canada has invested nearly $2.7 million in the Food Processing more...
Plant Protein Innovation Center to host virtual research meeting
Active research in the plant proteins space will be center (virtual) stage at the Plant Protein Innovation Center’s second annual Research Spotlight more...
The gears are turning on cultivated meat regulation
After the Food and Drug Administration and the USDA released their memorandum of understanding outlining how they will jointly oversee the commercial more...
Ingredient maker Symrise targets plant-based proteins
German ingredient manufacturer Symrise and its nutrition division, Diana Food, see great growth potential in the alternative protein market and have launched more...
Research tracks growth in consumer acceptance of analogues
Nearly four in 10 American adults (39%) say they have tried a plant-based protein menu item when dining out during the last 12 months, according to a more...
KFC Canada to keep, expand piloted plant-based sandwiches
KFC Canada and Lightlife pilot-tested a new Plant-Based KFC sandwich last year and sold more than a month’s worth of sandwiches in six hours.Based more...
Beyond Meat launches new 'brand anthem' in TV spot
Plant-based protein maker Beyond Meat debuted its new brand anthem, "What If We All Go Beyond?," in a national television spot that asks audiences to more...
Beyond's bellwether year
As the alt-meat industry's only publicly held pure-play manufacturer, so far, Beyond Meat's ups and downs are closely watched by investors, competitors more...
New products: Nomad, No Evil; Hormel; White Castle China
No Evil Foods and Nomad Dumplings have teamed up to create a reformulated version of the Shangri-La Honey dumpling that features the Comrade more...
GFI releases merchandising guides
The Good Food Institute has released a merchandising guide for retailers building strategies to tap into the plant-based market and promote the meat department more...
Straight outta Cambridge
The issue of labeling meat analogues is the gift that keeps on giving to the lawyers, lobbyists, regulators and certain journalists who write about this more...
New products: Beyond, Lightlife, daring
Beyond Meat has taken the Beyond Burger to a new level north of the border. Produced at a new co-manufacturing facility in Quebec and available at more...
Investments: NotCompany, Better Meat, New Age Meats
NotCompany, a Chilean-based analogue firm that also operates in Brazil and Argentina, is reportedly poised to haul in an $85 million funding round that more...
Higher Steaks produces cell-based pork belly, bacon strips
Bacon strips and pork belly that are made from cellular material in a lab rather than culled from a slaughtered animal are no longer a matter of science more...
KFC fuels cultivated meat discussion
The cultivated meat sector and the promise of 3-D food technology took a giant step forward in July when KFC announced it is working with Moscow-based more...
Impossible debuts at Walmart, expands delivery
It’s now possible to buy the Impossible Burger at Walmart. Available in the fresh meat section of stores in 12-ounce packages and also through Walmart more...
Upcoming meetings: Good Food Institute in Asia, FOOD manufacture in Amsterdam
The Good Food Institute Asia-Pacific will hold its inaugural “Asia Summit on Alternative Proteins” 2020 on August 20-21. The event will provide more...
July 2020
Analogue proteins sell better in meat department: PBFA, Kroger
Sales of plant-based proteins were 23% higher on average when products were placed for sale in the meat case, according to a study conducted by the Plant more...
Bell Food Group boosts Mosa Meat investment
In July 2018, Bell Food Group invested €2 million in Dutch cell-cultured start-up Mosa Meat. Two years later, Bell announced it will sink another more...
Canadian government bets big on plant protein
The Canadian government has invested nearly C$100 million in a new commercial-scale protein extraction facility that promises to deliver a concentrated more...
Algae grower Simris to raise SEK 29 million via rights issue
Simris, a Swedish agribusiness firm that grows algae to protect endangered marine habitats — and to produce omega-3, in lieu of fish oil or krill more...
Motif, Illinois universities partner to fine-tune analogue texture
Attracting new consumers to plant-based foods requires hitting the right texture — that veggie burger needs to break down into a juicy bite rather more...
Consumers prefer the term ‘cell-based’ for lab seafood
Companies that grow seafood from fish cells in a specialized medium, including such seafood as tuna, shrimp and salmon, are best advised to label their more...
New Products: IKEA, Sweet Earth, Conagra, Impossible, Meati
Known for reasonably priced furniture and the Swedish fare available in its in-store restaurants, IKEA has rolled out vegan plant balls both more...
… While Beyond Fried Chicken flaps to SoCal
More than 50 KFC restaurants in southern California introduced a limited-time offer of Beyond Fried Chicken – available while supplies last.Previously more...
Plant-based chicken nugget maker expands by forming a parent firm
The NUGGS plant-based chicken nugget brand has given birth to a new parent company, called SIMULATE. Thierry Saint-Denis, former senior director of research more...
China: A voluntary standard for plant-based analogues
The Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology (CIFST) has issued a notice soliciting comments on the voluntary standard: “Plant-Based Meat more...
GFI introduces research directory, database
The Good Foods Institute has launched both a collaborative research directory and a scientific research database to connect alternative protein researchers more...
Karana collects $1.7M seed funding for jackfruit-based "pork"
Several individuals and companies have invested a total of $1.7 million in seed funding in analogue manufacturer Karana, which produces a "pork" product more...
Beyond Meat journeys to Brazil …
Four Beyond Meat products, including the Beyond Burger, Beyond Sausage and Beyond Beef, are for sale in 19 upscale St. Marche’ stores in Sao Paulo more...
'Chill' is in
This item is contributed by Anne-Marie Roerink of 210 Analytics LLC, based on her research. Consumer interest in plant-based items had been rising for more...
Analogues online: Food Tech Summit, THIS, Vegan Arborist, Moving Mountains
Virtual Future Food Tech Summit announces speakers The virtual Future Food Tech Summit scheduled for September 17-18 has announced its first set of speakers more...
Lightlife re-releases old favorites in new packages
As summer grilling season began, Lightlife relaunched its plant-based line with a cleaner label, brighter package and more approachable logo. The re-release more...
OZO brand from JBS startup Planterra aims at analogue
Planterra, a Colorado-based startup division of JBS USA, has launched its OZO brand of plant-based burger patties, ground, Mexican-seasoned ground, and more...
Impossible Foods gives back
Impossible Foods is collaborating with apparel retailer Local Human to address food insecurity in the U.S., which has become an acute crisis more...
LIVEKINDLY acquires Swedish analogue firm Oumph!
Five-year-old Swedish plant-based firm Oumph! has become part of the LIVEKINDLY co., an aggregate of both heritage and startup brands such as LikeMeat more...
McD’s and Beyond: Divorce, or just a separation?
When McDonald’s said, in 2019, that it would test Beyond Meat’s burger patty at restaurants in Canada, it was big news: Up to that point, more...
Air Protein recognized as tech pioneer
Sustainable food tech company Air Protein, which uses elements of the air and renewable energy to make edible proteins, has received recognition from more...
Ingredients news: PLT Health Solutions, Nutriati, DuPont
PLT partners with Nutriati PLT Health Solutions has partnered with manufacturing and technology firm Nutriati LLC, to create a new protein-based ingredient more...
New products: ADM, Marfrig, Beyond Meat, Impossible Sausage, Alpha Foods, Gardein, Sweet Earth
ADM, Marfrig fry up plant-based burgers in Brazil ADM and beef producer Marfrig Global Foods have joined forces to roll out vegetable protein burgers more...
Euromonitor research shines light on analogues' post-COVID reality
Boosts to immunity, ease of home preparation and a need to lower prices overall: The outlines of a path forward in the plant-based meat analogue space more...
June 2020
Impossible makes mail order possible, expands relationship with BK
Consumers in the “lower 48” will be able to order plant-based burgers from Impossible Foods directly from a brand new e-commerce site with more...
Good Food Institute offering analogue webinars
The Good Food Institute will cover data and opportunities in the plant-based protein industry during three webinars offered over the next couple of weeks more...
Refrigerated plant-based alt-meat products sales outpaced frozen
This item is contributed by Anne-Marie Roerink of 210 Analytics LLC, based on her research. Throughout the pandemic, refrigerated and frozen plant-based more...
Company’s lockdown success is NoBull
The decade-old NoBull plant-based burger brand entered 2020 with dozens of Whole Foods, Krogers and Wegmans accounts, and plans to enter a seed-funding more...
Beyond Meat expands distribution, foodservice locations in China
Beyond Meat has expanded its presence in China with a new distribution deal as well as new trial launch sites at specific KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell more...
Could insect-based be the new plant-based?
A Finnish company called Entoprot that believes “insect protein is the future” has been chosen as one of the 10 startups in a VTT-sponsored more...
Maple Leaf jumps into the 'blended' arena
Maple Leaf Foods has rolled out a line of meat-and-plant blended products it has dubbed Maple Leaf 50/50, the company said in a news release. Maple Leaf more...
A summer of substitutes
The next few months of 2020 are going to be remembered as the summer of backyard cookouts. Even with states’ economies poised somewhere between more...
Swedish firm baits the hook for plant-based seafood
A Swedish start-up is hoping that consumers get hooked on plant-based salmon and tuna.The new company, Hooked, is producing these shredded, plant-based more...
Don Lee Farms fights hunger in SoCal
Don Lee Farms is supplying more than 1 million servings per day to food insecure families in Southern California through the USDA’s new “Farmers more...
Scaled-down plant-based expo planned for 2021
Analogue industry organizations and leaders are partnering to plan the Scout Plant-Based Expo, scheduled for Sept. 18, 2021, in Los Angeles. Lori and more...
Celebs go beyond for Beyond Meat
It makes actor-comedian Kevin Hart feel less sluggish and like he’s more thoughtful about his diet. Investor and rapper Snoop Dogg notes the environmental more...
New products: Gardein, Edible, Let’s Plant, Atlantic, Rebellyous
The Gardein brand from Conagra on May 28 launched the Gardein Ultimate Plant-Based Burger, a 4-ounce patty made from pea protein, with 19 grams more...
No Evil Foods continues nice raise for frontline workers
Like many food corporations, No Evil Foods, which makes 100% plant-based and non-GMO meat alternatives, provided a temporary “hero pay” wage more...
AAK, Good Food Institute link up to advance analogue in India
The Good Food Institute India has joined forces with AAK Kamani, the Indian joint venture of which vegetable oil and fat provider AAK is majority owner more...
HKScan of Finland enters plant-based joint venture
The Finnish processor HKScan has entered into a partnership with Leivon Leipomo Oy, a bakery that’s produced the plant-based Boltsi product family more...
GAO counsels FDA/USDA on their regulatory marriage
The U.S. is notable for not having a single regulatory agency overseeing the food supply/food safety chain. The cultivated meat industry, over which the more...
Nestle seeds investments in China
Nestlé has made an investment of about $104 million (730 million Chinese renminbi) in China, greatly expanding the capacity of an existing pet more...
5 ways retailers are using plant-based products to advantage: GFI
The Good Food Institute last month released an inaugural ranking of retailers, benchmarking the 15 U.S. retailers deemed the best with their assortment more...
David 1, Goliath 0
In the alt-meat market Impossible Foods, with its $4 billion valuation, is hardly an underdog, unless it is pitted against a company like Nestlé more...
May 2020
Impossible Foods fights hunger with Cook-A-Thon
Impossible Foods raised nearly $34,000 during a Cook-A-Thon on May 14 to combat food hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has sharply raised food more...
Alt-protein maneuvers in the COVID dark
Any marketer worth their salt will advise the CFO to double down on marketing in a recession, and there’s plenty of data to back up the decision more...
Future Food Group unveils new brand
Future Food Group rolled out the new analogue brand PLNT, with “tasty, sustainable and affordable” products ranging from vegan lunch meat more...
High winds, but raining dollars on agtech
Even as COVID-19 raced across the globe, buffeting food supply chains everywhere, nearly a billion dollars was poured into the development and expansion more...
Sales up, yes, but market share down for alt-meat in retail surge
This item is contributed by Anne-Marie Roerink of 210 Analytics LLC, based on her research. More than two months into the COVID-19 pandemic, grocery patterns more...
French start-up promises ‘ethical’ foie gras
The French delicacy foie gras, made from the livers of ducks and geese that are fed more than they would naturally consume, has long created ethical controversy more...
New products: Beyond Meat, Nick's Sticks
Beyond Meat has brought to market Beyond Breakfast Sausage, a line of frozen plant-based patties available in classic and spicy flavors that cook in five more...
Good Food Institute celebrates victory in Virginia, alliance in D.C.
After lobbying the legislature and testifying at hearings about a pending “label censorship bill” in Virginia, The Good Food Institute is more...
Impossible Foods boosts marketing message with 'impact calculator'
Redwood City, Calif.-based Impossible Foods launched what it calls an Impact Calculator on its website, "so people can see how much they are reducing more...
Asia’s interest in analogues soars
As social and economic restrictions begin to lift across Asia, plant-based meat analogues appear to benefit from concern about a possible link between more...
New products: Baicaowei, Cargill, Pulled Oats, Bilinski’s
Pepsi-owned Baicaowei rolls out sausage product Chinese company Baicaowei, bought by Pepsi in February, has rolled out a plant-based smoked sausage made more...
Aleph Farms announces carbon-neutral plans
Israeli cultivated meat company Aleph Farms Ltd. announced in a news release its goal of eliminating emissions from its meat production processes by 2025 more...
Novameat prints pork
Novameat, a Barcelona-based company researching ways to create plant-based meat analogue whole muscle cuts using 3D-printing technology, announced it more...
New investments: Plantible, Starfield, InnovoPro
Plantible, a San Marco, Calif.-based company making a plant-based protein ingredient to be used in meat analogues, among other foods, scored $4.6 million more...
COVID-19 and Beyond
Life during the pandemic has been a nauseating roller coaster ride for no company more than Beyond Meat Inc. in El Segundo, Calif. On the upside, the more...
April 2020
New products: Farm Rich, Mia, Starbucks China, Meatless Farm
Farm Rich gets inspired "Garden Inspirations by Farm Rich" is a new line of plant-based appetizers, snacks and meal solutions made with plant-based meats more...
Impossible hits 1,000-retailer mark, partners with S.F. wholesaler
Impossible Foods has secured distribution for its Impossible Burger to 777 Albertsons-owned supermarkets, and now is carried in about 1,000 stores nationwide more...
Rebellyous snags $6 million in funding
Rebellyous Foods, a maker of plant-based nuggets meant to imitate those made from chicken, raised $6M in Series A funding co-led by Clear Current Capital more...
Stepping up: Beyond Meat, No Evil Foods,
Beyond promises 1 million+ in product donations In April, Beyond Meat and its partners began donating and distributing more than 1 million Beyond Meat more...
The post-pandemic picture for analogues
On its way to rearranging the economic and social systems of every country in the world, the spread of COVID-19 also is rewriting the playbook for plant-based more...
Is it ever really over? 'Heme' gets yet another day in court
When the Food and Drug Administration issued a final ruling in December allowing the use of soy leghemoglobin (aka "heme") in plant-based meat analogues more...
Burger King's plant-based Whopper runs afoul of U.K. ad rules
Burger King was found to have misled U.K. customers with its ads for the Rebel Whopper, the U.K. version of the plant-based meat substitute Whopper sandwich more...
Plant Protein Innovation Center halts all non-essential operations
The Plant Protein Innovation Center (PPIC), an interdisciplinary research institute with the University of Minnesota that studies plant and alternative more...
Brazilian plant-based brands strikes EU distribution deal
Future Food Group, a Dutch distributor, has forged a partnership with Fazenda Futuro, a plant-based meat substitute company based in Brazil, the companies more...
Good Food Institute awards $4 million for plant-based meat research
The non-profit Good Food Institute (GFI) has awarded $4 million in grant funds for the scientific research of plant-based and cultivated meats. GFI’s more...
COVID-19 bends the analogue supply chain, too
By Ed Finkel, contributing editor The spread of the novel coronavirus has upended the plant-based meat analogue market along with every other protein more...
How analogue companies are staying safe
By Ed Finkel, contributing editor Plant-based meat substitute makers face many of the same challenges that meat processors do in trying to keep their more...
Original Herbivore announces new location, LA delivery services
Original Herbivore, a Los Angeles-based food truck that serves only vegan food, is expanding to both a delivery service and a brick-and-mortar location more...
Plant-based meat substitutes log 18% growth in '19
In 2019, U.S. retail sales of plant-based foods grew by 11.4%, to a total market value of $5 billion, and those of plant-based meat substitutes grew 18% more...
Giving back: Happy Little Plants
Hormel Foods' Happy Little Plants line donated $10,000 to support the efforts of the National Young Farmers Coalition, a nonprofit organization dedicated more...
Nature’s Fynd begins production with $80 million in funding
Nature’s Fynd, a Chicago-based food tech company, has announced an $80 million Series B funding haul, which will allow it to begin production on more...
March 2020
New company raises $200M to expand in plant-based chicken
A newly formed alternative protein company has raised $200 million from its founders to support development of chicken substitutes with the aim of becoming more...
Meat substitute patties market growing 41% CAGR: Technavio
U.K. market research firm Technavio projects that the plant-based burger patties market is poised to grow at a compound annual growth rate of almost 41% more...
'Milk' label bill awaits guv's signature
In Virginia, HB119, which promises to limit the use of the term "milk" to the "lacteal secretion of a healthy hooved mammal" and ban from the state more...
Pivot point? Alt-prices start to drop
As competition in the plant-based meat substitute space grows exponentially, Impossible Foods announced a 15% cut in the wholesale prices for its products more...
Maple Leaf’s big bet
Canada’s Maple Leaf Foods is built on meat: The 93-year-old company’s brands include Maple Leaf and Maple Leaf Prime, Schneider’s, Swift more...
Impossible Foods lines up $500M in additional financing
Impossible Foods has lined up about $500 million in new funding, bringing the total raised to nearly $1.3 billion, the food technology startup said. The more...
GFI adds alt-meat science series
The Good Food Institute later this month plans to launch of a technical online seminar series for scientists: The Science of Alt. Protein. The monthly more...
In-store marketing deal struck for Hormel's Happy Little Plants
Hormel's Happy Little Plants brand and the Fresh Thyme natural and organic foods retailer have set aside space dedicated to the brand in each of Fresh more...
JBS is latest entrant in plant-based protein competition
JBS USA, through its start-up unit Planterra Foods, will launch its own line of plant-based protein products in April, about seven months after deciding more...
New product roundup: El Pollo Loco, Outstanding Foods, Nestle, Daring Foods, Beyond Meat
El Pollo Loco goes chickenless El Pollo Loco Inc. is the first national chicken chain to deliver plant-based chicken system-wide with the launch of its more...
Better Meat seek to beef up financing
The Better Meat Co. is looking to raise nearly $10 million in an equity round of financing, according to a notice of exempt offering of securities filed more...
New product roundup: Impossible Foods, Lightlife and Field Roast, Fry's, Incogmeato
Impossible Foods at The Halal Shack Impossible Foods is on the menu now at The Halal Shack, a small, growing chain with eight locations in New York, California more...
Disappointing financial results beat up on Beyond Meat's stock price
Shares of Beyond Meat fell off a cliff last Friday after the company reported that it had not made a profit in its fiscal fourth quarter, although top-line more...
Plant-based QSR has ambitious expansion plans
PLNT Burger, a recently launched quick serve restaurant located in a Whole Foods Market in Silver Spring, Md., has ambitious explansion plans and has more...
Wendy's rolls out Plantiful in Canada
Wendy's Canada has introduced The Plantiful, a plant-based burger that is manufactured in Canada using its own recipe developed in-house, the company more...
On the road to eliminating animal ag? Survey says: not so fast.
Despite some plant-based substitute executives' stated intention to eliminate animal agriculture completely, consumers haven't gotten the memo, according more...
Taco Bell still mulling plant-based alternatives
Taco Bell has been a hold-out among QSRs, having not added a plant-based meat alternative to its menu, but that doesn't mean it will stay that way. In more...
UK startup THIS inks distribution deal
THIS, a U.K. plant-based substitute manufacturer using pea and soy proteins, has signed a new distribution deal with the Brakes foodservice distributor more...
Cargill announces plant-based proteins line
Cargill Inc. announced that its plant-based patty and ground products for foodservice and retail customers, including private label solutions, will be more...
German plant-based alternatives maker gets US investment boost
New U.S. investment firm Foods United has taken a majority stake in German plant-based meat alternative manufacturer LikeMeat, according to a report in more...
February 2020
Lightlife inks meal kit partnership, enters more sports arenas
Lightlife and Field Roast Grain Meat Co. products are now available to subscribers of Purple Carrot, the only 100% plant-based meal kit company in the more...
What's on the barbie? The plant-based labeling issue Down Under
The controversy over the labeling of plant-based proteins has reached the land of the Vegemite sandwich. At issue, as in Europe and the U.S., is more...
Analogue bacon: Prime Roots crosses the final frontier
Prime Roots, a plant-based meat alternative company has debuted a meatless bacon that can be shipped direct-to-consumers, the company said in a news release more...
Los análogos de la carne tienen fanáticos en México
To the average American consumer, a Mexican menu seems heavy on the meats: Carne asada, tacos al pastor, barbacoa, lengua. But authentic Mexican cuisine more...
Analogue corned beef hits New York delis
A plant-based substitute company called Unreal Deli is selling its plant-based corned "beef" through Sarge's Delicatessen & Diner in the Murray Hill more...
New product roundup: Starbucks, Moving Mountains, Sysco, Denny's, Outstanding Foods
Starbucks Corp. Chief Operating Officer Rosalind Brewer told analysts the coffee chain would introduce a "plant-based patty" in the U.S. and Canada more...
Demand to soar for pea protein: report
Prices will rise for pea protein in the next five years, according to a report on the sector by ResearchAndMarkets.com. The market research firm projects more...
New! Improved! KFC tests 'tweaked' Beyond chicken recipe
KFC this week is testing an "improved" version of Beyond Meat plant-based chicken nuggets and boneless wings at some 70 stores in Nashville, Tenn., and more...
Aleph Farms unveils visitor center, outreach program
Aleph Farms announced it has opened its Visitor Center, and "educational complex is set to showcase the public with up-close and transparent viewing on more...
Nestle's plan to collab with ingredient suppliers
Nestlé announced a collaboration with Burcon and Merit, two key players in the development and production of high-quality plant proteins, that more...
Faux-faraw: Behind Don Lee's escalating lawsuit v. Beyond Meat
Long before Beyond Meat became a market darling, Don Lee Farms in Ingleside, Calif., had sued the company (under the name Savage River Inc.) in May 2017 more...
Pork producers' ads take aim at candidates
In the weeks before the Iowa presidential caucus on Monday, the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) sought to put the debate over labeling of plant-based more...
Motif, UMass team up for faster protein research results
Motif FoodWorks, specializing in animal-free ingredients, announced a partnership with the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) to "optimize the more...
Impossible Foods hires CPO, promises 'hypergrowth'
Impossible Foods has hired biotech executive Brian Miller as Chief People Officer, the company said in a news release, and said the company is entering more...
Fast food = future food?
Burger King rolls out the Impossible Whopper to 7,000 stores. Del Taco adds Beyond Meat tacos to the menu at nearly 600 locations. And this year, Dunkin’ more...
January 2020
Beyond Meat shores up pea protein supply chain
Beyond Meat Inc. expanded its supply agreement with Roquette, a global leader in plant-based ingredients, that will significantly increase the amount more...
New players link to assist Latin American alt-protein market
GFI Brazil and the first food tech hub in Latin America are teaming up to assist in the development of new alt protein products in an expanding market more...
Greenleaf Foods teams up with Montreal Canadiens
The plant-based protein arm of Canada’s Maple Leaf Foods is now the first and exclusive plant-based protein sponsor of the Montreal Canadiens hockey more...
Chinese analogue company gets a leg up
Chinese plant-based meat brand Z-Rou Meat has formed a strategic cooperation with IS Seafood, a sustainable B2B seafood supplier, boosting its sales and more...
New product roundup: Tofurky, Kroger, On the Border, Ruby Tuesday, Krave, THIS, Moving Mountains, Gardein, High Peaks
Tofurky launches plant-based burger patties at Target Tofurky launched 2020 by introducing an alt protein burger patty at more than 600 Target stores more...
Quorn adds carbon data to its labels
Quorn, the British meat analogue, is to become the first major brand to introduce carbon labelling on its products, according to a report in The Guardian more...
At what price?
High prices remain the highest barrier to widespread adoption of plant-based meat substitutes (and to the commercial production of cultivated meat), when more...
Investor roster for plant-based protein companies expands
Dutch alt-protein manufacturer Mosa Meat recently attracted new investment partners while the alt-protein arm of Canada’s Maple Leaf Foods made more...
10 trends in 2020
After a rockin’ 2019, protein purveyors and lovers either look forward to, or dread, what’s in store for 2020. Here are some story lines to more...
'Meat-free' goes gourmet
A flexitarian or vegetarian/vegan diet is being heralded, and made more available, at all levels of dining, from the Impossible Whopper on up. Now the more...
Kroger begins test of plant-based sections in meat cases
Kroger Co. has rolled out a test of its plant-based sections in meat cases in 60 of its stores in Denver, Indiana and Illinois. The test, conducted in more...
New products: Capriotti's, CKE, Fazoli's, Subway Canada, Hooters, KFC UK
Capriotti's tests Impossible sandwiches in Las Vegas Capriotti's Sandwich Shop is testing a plant-based version of its popular Cheese Steak sandwich — more...
The ingredients for a market shakeup
The food story of 2019 was plant-based meat substitutes, but in all the talk about Beyond Meat’s stock price and where in the store the newer analogues more...
PBFA offers analogue labeling guidelines
The Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA) released a set of voluntary standards for labeling plant-based meat alternatives in an effort to promote consistency more...
Pushing plant protein further
Boston-based Motif FoodWorks ingredient innovation company is working with The University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia, to test and identify more...
December 2019
Plant-based on your doorstep: Analogues rule in 2019 restaurant delivery trends
Most of 2019's delivery orders from restaurants through the Grubhub digital food-ordering and delivery service, included vegan or vegetarian options, more...
They hold the key to the cultivated meat market
Excitement about the prospect of a commercially viable cultivated meat industry has been tempered, significantly, by the astronomical cost of the medium more...
NCBA mounts an offensive
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association is deploying a public relations initiative aimed at deflecting the hype around the plant-based substitute market more...
Beyond Meat CEO hints at poultry in its future
Beyond Meat Inc. plans to do more in the coming year with a plant-based substitute for chicken, hinted Beyond CEO Ethan Brown in an interview with Bloomberg more...
New products: Moving Mountains, Elevation Burger, Nestle, Beyond Beef, Daring Foods
Dutch alt-meat producer Moving Mountains has added a sausage to its product line-up. It is made of "all-natural" ingredients including oyster mushroom more...
Food 'tech' is starting to grow on people
Veal in a vat. Steak from a slurry. A loin from a lab. For years, consumer sentiment has balked at the notion of animal proteins created by science rather more...
November 2019
‘Air’ protein is no joke
By approaching the production of protein as a lab experiment rather than as the unique outcome of animal agriculture, companies in recent years have rolled more...
Meatless Farm taps new R&D head
The Meatless Farm Co., based in the U.K., has named Peter Hynes as its head of research and development, the company announced late last month. Hynes more...
Over the holidays, the talk turns to turkey
While turkey slowly gains market traction across dayparts and calendar pages, Thanksgiving and the holiday season remains turkey’s prime time to more...
Plant-based corned beef catches Sharks' attention
Plant-based meat substitutes got the star treatment on ABC's "Shark Tank" recently, when Jenny Goldfarb brought her beet-chickpea-tomato-based corned more...
Impossible Foods eyes $4bn valuation: Reuters
Impossible Foods could attract enough additional investment in a new round of fundraising to more than double the $2 billion in valuation it reached in more...
Move over, McRib!
The McRib's annual pilgrimage back on to McDonald's menus has become an annual social media extravaganza, so it was a matter of time before the plant-based more...
The siren song of the Middle Kingdom
As devastating as African Swine Fever is proving to be for the pork farmers in Europe and, especially, Asia, it is a rising tide that is floating all more...
State labeling law(suits): One down, two to go
Half of the states have considered bills that would limit the ways that plant-based meat analogues could label their products, most of them proposing more...
Burger King enlists new alt-protein partner, adds to kid’s menu
In the wake of a successful launch of a plant-based sandwich in various U.S. markets, Burger King is teaming up with a new supplier for its planned alt-protein more...
Most Americans see alt-proteins as ‘mainstream’: report
A majority of U.S. consumers view plant-based proteins as being more mainstream – and nearly one-third expect to try a diet that includes such foods more...
AgFunder ‘plants’ investor fund for alternative proteins
The San Francisco-based foodtech venture capitalist firm AgFunder has established a new $20-million fund that will allow investors to invest in the next more...
Plant-based protein wars to heat up in early 2020
ConAgra Brands is stepping up its Gardien branded alt-protein efforts in the alt-meat-product fray early next year as it attempts to attract U.S. consumers more...
Two alt-protein producers ink deals with separate chains
A pair of manufacturers of alt-protein foods are making their products available to new restaurant chains in an expansion of their places in America’s more...
New marketing chief sets ‘Impossible’ goals
Impossible Foods has appointed Jessie Becker to the newly created post of senior vice president of marketing for the expanding producer of plant-based more...
Meatless Farm Co. bulks up executive team
The U.K.-based plant-based protein company Meatless Farm has appointed a new global chief marketing officer and a vice president of North American sales more...
October 2019
Science fact-ion: The next plant protein ... cotton?
The crop once known as "King Cotton" in the U.S. has only ever been good for one thing — cloth fibers — and the U.S. industry has more...
Cultivated space cowboys
Israeli cultivated meat company Aleph Farms said it produced meat on the International Space Station, 248 miles away from any natural resources, the company more...
Science fact-ion: The bleeding edge of plant protein research
When plant protein R&D types get together, what do they talk about? At the Good Food Conference in September in San Francisco, they talked about selective more...
Fair game: Plant-based and cultivated products just want a level playing field
The regulation of emerging food technologies is a moving target, but a panel ranging from former USDA Secy. Ann Veneman to Good Food Institute Director more...
European meat giant unveils alt-meat business unit
Dutch meat giant Vion has jumped into the alternative meat business with its announcement this month that the Boxtel, The Netherlands-based red meat provider more...
The opportunity in ASF
As African Swine Fever spreads through Asia and Europe, and Rabobank projects losses in the Chinese swine herd — the world’s largest — more...
Alt-protein people on the move: Impossible Foods, Beyond Beef, Motif FoodWorks
Impossible Foods hires Dan Greene as senior vice president of U.S. sales Impossible Foods has hired tech industry sales leader Dan Greene as its senior more...
'Smart Protein' project seeks to kickstart development
The Good Food Institute, ProVeg and 31 partner organizations across 21 countries are launching Smart Protein, a $10.5 million (€9.6 million) project more...
September 2019
Methodology
Methodology In undertaking the study, Anne Odile Peschel, assistant professor in the Department of Management at Denmark’s Aarhus University more...
Impossible's goal: China
Impossible Foods' plans to disrupt the Asian meat supply chain, particularly in China, made a splash in the headlines, and the market is certainly attractive: more...
Cargill doubles down on pea protein production
Cargill has invested an additional $75 million in PURIS, the largest North American producer of pea protein, the ag conglomerate said in a news release more...
The human side of plant-based: An anthropologist's perspective
Behind the interest, the profits, the claims and the microbiology, the growth of the plant-based meat substitute market and the response of the conventional more...
From plant-based to personal health: The profit in the disconnect
People hear what they want to hear: Libraries of marketing and advertising messaging have been built on that premise. No surprise, then, that a study more...
Lightlife inks first alt-meat/NFL partnership
Greenleaf Foods SPC, and its Lightlife Foods brand announced that Lightlife had entered into a partnership with the Los Angeles Rams, the first plant-based more...
On the move: Greenleaf Foods, Impossible Foods
Maple Leaf Foods hires Grogan Toronto-based Maple Leaf Foods' plant-based protein unit, Greenleaf Foods SPC, has named Adam Grogan as chief operating more...
Cart before the horse? Why cell-cultured meat companies launched an industry group so soon
Without a cell-cultured meat product on the market between them, five companies at the forefront of the nascent industry last month formed the Alliance more...
Money talks: Five observations from investors about the business of replacing meat
Regardless of the amount of discussion, on- and off-line, about the plant-based meat substitute and cell-cultivated meat sectors, when investors talk more...
August 2019
ICYMI: Another global meat giant jumps into plant-based burgers
Brazilian beef processor Marfrig Global Foods earlier this month entered into an agreement with Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) to produce vegetable more...
ICYMI: Plant-based rising tide lifts all boats
Meat alternatives made from plants are expected to continue to generate significantly higher sales in a number of arenas over the next few decades, according more...
A g’day for meaty-ish Ozzie pizza
Australia’s Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Ltd. is rolling out three no-meat options for delivery this fall: Beef & Onion, Beef Loaded Burger more...
Disruption2: Technologies that could shake up the plant-based market
Market frontrunners always have targets on their backs. So it is with plant-based substitutes, where companies boasting new technologies and unique applications more...
IF in the catbird seat
So many of the headlines this summer have been trained on Beyond Meat, but rival Impossible Foods is arguably in a better position to prevail in the market more...
Colo. gov says state should foster meat alternatives
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis spoke out in favor of fostering alternative-meat businesses in the state, an attention-getting move in that livestock-heavy more...
New product roundup: Gardein, Tim Hortons, Dunkin, Beyond Meat, Greenleaf, Subway, Before the Butcher, Sodexo
Gardein expands line-up Conagra Brands' Gardein line is adding to its line of plant-based meat substitutes, with Gochujang Style Chick'n Wings, Chipotle more...
Seven reasons why BYND's stock is such a wild ride
The wild ride that Beyond Meat’s stock has taken since the company’s May IPO has been fueled by a number of factors. The stock had risen from more...
New opportunities or plant-based arms race?
While several of the U.S.’s largest meat processors are investing heavily in plant-based substitutes and in the development of cell-cultured meats more...
July 2019
Plant-based meat sector worth $800MM: Report
A new report indicates that the U.S. plant-based foods retail market is worth $4.5 billion, growing five times faster than total U.S. retail food more...
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Latest prediction: Cultured meat at $10/patty in 2 years
The old joke about economists goes, “if you predict a recession often enough, eventually you’ll be right.” The cell-cultured corollary more...
New product roundup: Super Plant Pizza, Famous Dave's, Nuggs, Beyond Meat, Interstate Hotels & Resorts
Canadian pizza chain rolls out alt-meat toppings Canada's Pizza Pizza Ltd. is introducing a pizza at its stores nationwide topped with meat substitutes more...
Secy. Perdue does the ‘Impossible’
The Impossible Burger is “very good” and a “food facsimile” of beef raised on the hoof, according to USDA Secy. Sonny Perdue. more...
There's gold in them thar peas!
The Midas touch of the plant-based meat substitute craze has its ripple effects: Demand for the patties is running up the supply chain, and farmers in more...
Alt-chicken from New Zealand expands to Australia
Chicken Free Chicken, made by a New Zealand company called Sunfed, has expanded distribution of its yellow pea protein product to Australia, according more...
ICYMI: Plant-based food group sues Mississippi over labeling
The Plant Based Foods Association and vegan food maker Upton’s Naturals filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new labeling law in Mississippi that more...
ICYMI: Business coalition invests in Calgary plant protein push
A group of Canadian businesses is investing $8 million to help a Calgary-based company establish itself as a leading developer of plant-based protein more...
Shake Shack CEO: No alt-meat, not yet
Shake Shack is joining the restaurant companies that are staying on the sidelines of the alt-meat craze, at least for now. In an interview with the CNBC more...
British meat substitute firm inks Whole Foods deal
Meatless Farm, a plant-based meat substitute firm based in Leeds, U.K., is much better known in its home country than in the U.S., but that may soon change more...
June 2019
Dutch firm heralds exit from meat industry
Vivera Foodgroup heralded its "meatless future" as it announced the sale of its unit, Enkco, a maker of chilled and deep-frozen meat products to the Van more...
New product roundup: Beyond Meat, Tim Hortons, Hard Rock Cafe, Max Burgers, Lone Star Texas Grill, Maple Leaf Foods
Beyond Meat's new iterations Beyond Meat has reformulated its original Beyond Burger to feature 'marbling' designed to melt and tenderize like traditional more...
Impossible Foods releases 'impact report'
As conventional meat processing companies heralded the release of each of their sustainability reports, Impossible Foods jumped in to announce what it more...
Beyond Meat builds facility with Zandbergen
Beyond Meat Inc. has expanded its partnership with Zandbergen World’s Finest Meat to produce the brand’s plant-based meats at a new manufacturing more...
Beyond Meat stock price tops $200 a share
In the wake of a one-two punch of new product announcements, shares of Beyond Meat soared as much as 18% Tuesday morning, to hit a new all-time high of more...
ICYMI: Hormel to join the alt-protein fray with pizza topping
Hormel Foods Corp. is developing its own entrant in the alternative protein arena: a plant-based pizza topping targeting a growing number of consumers more...
Quorn floats on a rising tide
Quorn Foods, founded in 1985, is a grand-daddy in the meat substitute arena, but even this mature product is seeing a steep rise in demand over the last more...
May 2019
Analogue product roundup: Beyond Sausage, LightLife, Blaze Pizza, Don Lee Farms, Fresh N' Lean, Del Taco, Little Caesars, Equilibrium Food, Burger King
Beyond Sausage gets nationwide rollout, Beyond Burger goes north Beyond Meat's Beyond Sausage plant-based meat substitute links have been rolled out nationwide more...
Coffee schmoffee: Dunkin' looks to analogues for performance boost
Fighting a slump in traffic that its coffee innovations and existing menu haven't solved, Dunkin' is looking to add plant-based meat analogues to its more...
Analogue market report roundup: Persistence Market Research, Future Market Insights, EuroMonitor International
New research reports on the plant-based meat substitutes industry predict compound annual growth rates of between 5.8% to more than 8% in the coming years more...
Brits are testing cell-cultured bacon
Let the Israelis and the Americans focus on growing beef in a lab: The Brits are going for the gold with their efforts to grow bacon. Specifically, researchers more...
Analogue investment roundup: $16 billion and counting
Investors have sunk $16 billion into plant-based meat, egg and dairy products in the 10 years ending in 2018, according to an accounting by the Good Food more...
If bacon is 'meat candy,' what are we to make of vegan bacon?
Vivera, a maker of plant-based meat alternatives in Europe, has introduced 100% fat- free vegan "Bacon Pieces" through Sainsbury's supermarkets in the more...
Impossible Foods' releases life cycle assessment report
Impossible Foods has followed in the footsteps of corporations everywhere, subjecting its flagship product to a sustainability life cycle assessment and more...
April 2019
ICYMI: Maple Leaf unit plans continent’s largest plant-based protein facility
Greenleaf Foods SPC will build North America’s largest plant-based protein manufacturing facility in Shelbyville, Ind., investing US$310 million more...
Impossible Sliders mark their one-year anniversary
The White Castle burger chain marked the first anniversary of its introduction of the Impossible Slider by announcing it is rolling out the reformulated more...
Brazil jumps into the plant-based analogue market
A Brazilian firm, Fazenda Futuro ("future farm" in Portuguese), has rolled out a plant-based meat alternative it's calling the Futuro Burger, according more...
Impossible Foods settles in at Red Robin
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brews has added The Impossible Burger — in the form of a cheeseburger — to its menu at locations nationwide more...
Before the Butcher moves to the butcher department
Huntington Beach, Calif.-based Before the Butcher is stocking its plant-based meat analogues and entrees in the butcher department of the Bristol Farms more...
Comment dites-vous 'veggie disc'? The EU has its own alt-meat labeling ideas
The agriculture committee of the European Union's parliament earlier this month approved a ban on using "nomenclature usually deployed to describe meat" more...
Qdoba adds Impossible protein to its menu
QDOBA Mexican Eats is adding plant-based Impossible protein to its restaurants’ menus in the U.S., the fast-casual chain said in a news release more...
Pea protein market at $313.5 million by 2025: report
Pea protein, a common ingredient in plant-based meat analogues, is expected to be a $313.5 million market globally by 2025, according to new research more...
ICYMI: Del Taco tests plant-based tacos
Quick-service Mexican food chain Del Taco is testing tacos with a plant-based meat alternative as a possible menu item in select locations, the company said more...
A step closer to lab-produced steak
So far, most of the successful development of cell-based meat has been focused on a ground beef-like product. A new technology out of Penn State and the more...
An 800-lb. gorilla steps into the alt-meat ring
The plant-based but meat-mimicking burger sector is getting its biggest player yet: Nestlé earlier this month announced it will launch 'cook from more...
Beyond Burger expands in Canada
The White Spot restaurant company in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, has added the Beyond Burger patty to its menu of signature burgers and entrées more...
ICYMI: Burger King fools customers with Impossible Whopper
Burger King announced it is testing the Impossible Whopper, which replaces the beef patty with a plant-based one from Impossible Foods. In a nod to April more...
Aramark rolls out 'plant-forward' foodservice concept
Aramark is rolling out The Twisted Beet, a "plant-forward dining concept" that will appear in more than 750 higher education, business dining and healthcare more...
March 2019
Reciprocal Meat Conference plans deep dive into cell-based meat science
The American Meat Science Association has added a symposium to its schedule for the 72nd Reciprocal Meat Conference on “Innovation at the Cellular more...
What's worse than livestock for the environment? It could be lab-grown meat, researchers say.
The headline reads, "Lab-grown meat’s promise for cutting climate warming depends on an energy revolution." Researchers from the Livestock, Environment more...
Don Lee Farms ups the ante in case against Beyond Meat
Don Lee Farms filed a second amended complaint earlier this month alleging that Beyond Meat is guilty of fraud, negligence and breach of contract, according more...
What the what? VEGAN McNuggets?
McDonald's has not made it official with an announcement — yet — but the fast-food giant McDonald’s recently introduced more...
New product roster: Strong Roots, Jackfruit, ABP Food Group, Axiom, Chipotle, A&W, MorningStar Farms, Beyond Meat, Atlantic Natural
Strong Roots heads for the U.S. market Strong Roots, a Dublin, Ireland-based premium root vegetables, veggie burgers and bites, made its debut at more...
ICYMI: Another biotech company jumps into alternative protein market
Boston-based food company Motif Ingredients announced it has launched with $90M in Series A financing to provide next-generation alternative proteins more...
ICYMI: Impossible Foods hires first president
Impossible Foods announced that Dennis Woodside has joined the company in the newly created role of president. Woodside oversees Impossible Foods’ more...
February 2019
Alt-meat is a slam-dunk for some NBA players
A growing number of professional hoops players are crediting plant-based meat substitutes as a factor in their success on the boards. According to a feature more...
From Yellowstone to the Blue Plate Special
In early February, Chicago-based Sustainable Bioproducts raised $33 million in financing from ADM Ventures, the venture-investing arm of Archer Daniels more...
Plant based dishes at the front of the house
The Good Food Institute's second annual Restaurant Scorecard called out Jamba Juice, White Castle, Panera Bread and Yard House for scoring highest in more...
GFI awards $3 million for cell- and plant-based product research
Good Food Institute (GFI), a nonprofit group that works with scientists, investors and entrepreneurs to develop meat alternatives, announced the recipients more...
Global conference planned in June
A conference dedicated to plant-based proteins is schedule in Amsterdam in June, organized by Global Meat News, a U.K.-based title of the William Reed more...
A primer on plant proteins
The global plant protein market is worth more than $6 billion as of 2017, and is expected to register an estimated compound annual growth rate of 7.1 more...
January 2019
Alt-burgers get jet-propelled international distribution
Two companies recently announced broad international distribution for their plant-based meat substitute burgers. Los Angeles-based Don Lee Farms, a processor more...
China creates plant-based industry association
China’s inaugural plant-based industry association was formally created in December 2018, according to California-based Good Food Institute, a founding more...
What’s in a name?
Both dairy milk and plant-based milks are associated with “nutrition” and “health,” and in fact, many consumers don’t see more...
Plant Based Foods Association launches certification program
San Francisco-based Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA) has rolled out a Certified Plant Based program, which specifies criteria to make a certified more...
Quote-unquote
Danette Amstein from Midan Marketing on disruptors in the meat space, on Meatingplace: “We have to move past our fears and speed up our reaction more...
Whole Foods plants its flag on '19's top food trends
“Faux meat snacks” is one of Whole Foods’ predictions for the 10 most important food trends for 2019. The trend-setting retailer, now more...
December 2018
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