Each year, hundreds of millions of single-use containers and cans are discarded around the world. While packaging plays an important role in the delivery of food globally, it depletes finite resources
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CAIRO ' 6 August 2022: Egyptian Minister of Environment, Dr. Yasmine Fouad, confirmed that the state grants incentives for investments in the production of biodegradable plastic bags, and signed a con
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's National Agricultural Development Co. benefited from a surge in sales of agriculture, dairy, and processed food in the first quarter of 2022. This helped the company register 13
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Experiments suggest that it might become possible to nourish plants without photosynthesis—a tool that could one day help feed astronauts and a crowded planet. Science fiction stories have imagined fu
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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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One of the things I wondered about a lot during my first months of work in the food system was productivity. Growing up in a Minority World country, practically all of my food came from large-scale, i
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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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The European startup uses precision fermentation to create heme commonly found in beef, chicken, pork, lamb and tuna — in addition to the long-extinct mammal — to make analogs taste more authentic. Me
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Sustainable drinking water technology company, Source Global, has raised $130 million in equity financing co-led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Drawdown Fund. The company’s patented Source Hydrop
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Boulder, Colorado-based Meati just secured $150 million in Series C funding to accelerate the production of its whole-cut meat alternatives made from mushroom root. The round was led by growth capita
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Crop One Holdings and Emirates Flight Catering announced this week they opened Emirates Crop One, what they say is “the world’s largest vertical farm.” The over 330,000-square-foot facility is located
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Precision fermentation has been around for decades, and most of us eat foods that contain ingredients made using the technology on a daily basis. Animal-free dairy makers are now using it to bring you
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After 10 years, two rebrands and a short-lived consumer line, the company is ready to bring its reverse-engineered fruit skins to new applications. Marty Kolewe was working as a postdoctoral associate
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Traditional plastic recycling faces many challenges in Singapore. Even if food packaging is technically recyclable, separating and cleaning it can cost five times more than building a new packaging fr
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For all of the innovation in the logistics, marketing and automation of restaurant delivery, there’s no escaping the fact that most food taken off the premises pales in comparison to the quality of fo
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Tetra Pak has announced a host of new research collaborations and programs to further accelerate efforts to address global food systems challenges. The initiative is part of the company’s drive to nu
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Food upcycling start-up Koa – specializing in repurposing cocoa pulp, a byproduct from the chocolate industry as value-added ingredients – has captured US$10 million in funding to raise its processing
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From cutting sugar to discovering new flavors, manufacturers such as Conagra and Danone are turning to the technology to get products to market faster and gain a competitive advantage.
Plant-based food sales tallied $7.4 billion in 2021, an increase of 6% above 2020, according to data from SPINS, the Plant-Based Foods Association and the Good Food Institute. Plant-based grew at a ra
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Chicago, IL: PreScouter, a Chicago-based research intelligence company, has released a new Intelligence Brief that examines the current trend toward the replacement of synthetic food and beverage colo
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Recent innovations are driving significant change in food and beverage manufacturing. Here are some of the processing, packaging and supply trends that are emerging in the industry.