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December 2020

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

September 2020

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

August 2020

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

July 2020

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

… 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

June 2020

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

May 2020

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

April 2020

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

March 2020

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

February 2020

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

January 2020

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

November 2019

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

August 2019

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

May 2019

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...

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...

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...

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...