PepsiCo’s Walkers brand is trialling ‘bagless’ multipack packaging for its Snack A Jacks range, with a recyclable, tape-like strip expected to reduce plastic use by 86% compared to the previous outer
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Low supply and high demand for agricultural products has resulted in skyrocketing prices for inputs like grains and fertilisers. This could well continue 'beyond 2023', analysts at Barclays warn.
Gavan Technologies, an Israel-based food tech startup, says it has developed a “waste-free” extraction method for plant-based protein. “Our new, multistep technological platform enables us to take any
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Meet Xampla, the British company innovating solutions for two separate industry challenges: plastic pollution and the protection of valuable vitamins and nutrients. Food-Navigator Europe caught up wit
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TurtleTree says it can produce the protein up to a 100 times faster and at a larger scale to make the hard-to-get ingredient more accessible to food manufacturers.
In Hungary, a beverage manufacturer claims to have produced the 'world’s first’ energy drink completely designed by AI. Over the centuries, technology has been responsible for significant advances in
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Two alt-protein startups – Oshi (formerly Plantish) and The Better Meat Co – have jointly been awarded a $1 million grant from the Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) foundation to c
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In its State of the Marketplace 2022 Summary Report, the Plant Based Foods Association takes a deep dive into the category and identifies key trends ahead. Despite inflation over the last year and l
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Optimism (but not overwhelming) and plans for expansion will be a big part of 2023, if the responses to our Manufacturing Survey are anything to go by. About 18% of our respondents said they are “very
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The following is a guest post from Rick Hamilton, a Senior Consultant at 4C Associates. Hamilton shares his insights following the International Food & Drink event in London where Charles Banks, co-fo
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The acronym began as a somewhat optimistic term to describe what were the world's fastest-growing economies at the time. But now the BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa — are se
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Cheese-lovers who have tried vegan cheese often bemoan that it won't melt, stretch or brown, and it usually lacks that characteristic tangy, savoury flavour that makes cheese quite simply delicious. W
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Food prices around the world are at a historic high, and as of 2021, an estimated 2.3 billion people are either moderately or severely food insecure1. The Ukraine crisis has made this even worse, cutt
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A new protein partnership aims to widen the protein ecosystem by expanding meat alternative offerings. Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), a global conventional protein leader, and Israel’s Believer Meats,
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ADM, and PepsiCo have announced a seven-and-a-half-year commercial agreement to collaborate and expand regenerative agriculture across their shared North American supply chains. The partnership plan
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Australian startup All G Foods just raised $25 million from Agronomics to accelerate the manufacture of its milk substitute and undercut the prices of conventional milk sold on the market. “Over the n
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Alternative proteins — derived from plants, fermentation and cell cultivation — have grown in terms of companies, investments, products and manufacturing capacity in the recent past, reports from the
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The food value chain has changed dramatically over recent years ' and promises to continue transforming, with ecosystems becoming ever more complex. Based on a comprehensive study carried out with thr
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Coca-Cola, Nestl' and General Mills are just a few of the CPGs to announce hikes as they face a jump in expenses for ingredients, manufacturing, packaging and transportation.
Ingredients from Brazilian biodiversity - Oils, butter, syrups and extracts from pulps or seeds of Brazilian biomes Amazon, Cerrado and Caatinga Plant-Based Butter – 100% natural and sustainable produ
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Swiss multinational plant equipment manufacturer, Bühler is set to open cutting-edge grain processing facility in Nigeria poised to support local producers in the development of safe and affordable fo
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While regenerative farming and emission-busting feed additives are available, critics argue that more investments should be made in solutions that are viable.