Food and beverage multinational CP Foods has big plans for its new plant-based Meat Zero line and other alternative protein innovations, citing strong category growth and rising consumer health consciousness as its main motivations for leaping into the sector.... Read more
Europe is at risk of falling behind in the race to commercialise cultivated meat, heard the first ever European Parliament debate about cultivated meat, held on Wednesday 13 July.... Read more
While still a growing $7.4bn industry, plant-based foods have some significant hurdles to overcome around formulation especially in the area of fat content, according to Mintel.... Read more
San Leandro based SCi-Fi Foods – which believes it has “a pretty clear shot at being the first company to bring cultivated beef to the market in the US” – claims to have scored an industry first by developing bovine cell lines that can grow in single-cell suspension, without microcarriers, enabling significantly higher cell densities, a key metric when it comes to cultivated meat economics. ... Read more
Conventional red meat is a better source of protein and delivers more essential amino acids than plant-based alternatives, based on results from a New Zealand RCT.... Read more
