I‘m ending the year with an excerpt from my book, Raw Deal, all about the investor frenzy that’s been driving the plant-based boom, as well as a scoop. Tattooed Chef, a brand that went pub...
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Nestlé Looks To The Future
I talked with Melissa Cash, chief strategy officer at Nestlé, about what the company sees on the … [+] horizon. getty Everyone is talking about F&B trends. We all study new products, focus o...
Tattooed Chef, A Pioneer Of Plant-Based Foods, Considers The Unthinkable
PETER DAZELEY/GETTY IMAGES In a blow to the meatless-meat industry, the publicly traded food company says real meat may get added to a new line of products to boost profits. Before he took his company...
Hershey-Backed Blue Stripes Makes Cacao Products From The Shells And All
Oded Brenner, CEO of Blue Stripes Cacao, produces upcycled products that use the whole cacao pod. Blue Stripes Upcycling, a sort of culinary alchemy that turns food waste into edible gold, is one of t...
Jeff Bezos Backed Food Tech Unicorn, NotCo, Raises Another $70 Million In Series D Extension Ahead Of 2025 IPO
Matias Muchnick, founder and chief executive officer of Not Company, in New York, US, on Monday, … [+] Oct. 24, 2022. Eight months after announcing their joint venture, Kraft Heinz Co. and NotCo...
Are Laid Off Employees At Beyond Meat The Scapegoat For Bad Management?
(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 15, 2019 Beyond Meat “Beyond Burger” patties made from … [+] plant-based substitutes for meat products sit on a shelf for sale in New Yor...
Gregorys Coffee Is A Plant-Based Mecca
With partners like Eat Just and Beyond Meat, Gregorys Coffee has plenty of vegan options. Ted + Chelsea Cavanaugh If there’s any virtue within the food and drink industry that feels distinctly America...
Here’s A Clean, Plant-Based And Healthy Hurricane Nutrition Plan
If you’re expecting extreme weather, its normal to panic… Especially if you want to feed your family nutritious meals, knowing that there may be loss of power and water for an indefinite period....
Lebron James Launches Nutritional And Supplement Brand
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – FEBRUARY 24: LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers warms up before a … [+] game against the Utah Jazz at Vivint Smart Home Arena on February 24, 2021 in Salt La...
Hope For The Formula Shortage, McDonald’s Leaves Russia, And Soaring Chicken Prices
Through the early weeks of the pandemic, fake meat sales grew some 200% at retail, and that hype helped drive the sector to secure more than $2 billion in funding. A lot of that came from venture capi...
The Next Plant Based Trend Reaches For The Jewish Deli
Seriously? I grew up going to the Lower East Side of New York with my parents every Sunday for most of my childhood. Pedestrians, young children among them, walk past the facade of Katz’s Delica...
Expo West Is Expensive To Attend, But There Are Ways To Maximize ROI
Informa Markets’ Natural Products Expo West, part of the New Hope Network family of brands, safely … [+] and successfully hosted the in-person return of the industry’s largest trade show March 8...
Potato Milk Could Be This Year’s Alternative Protein Trend
Hey all you skeptics out there. British supermarket chain, Waitrose recently released its 2022 Food and Drink report in which it predicts that potato milk will be the biggest dairy alternative milk tr...
Unovis Asset Management Closes $166 Million Fund II, Warns Alt Protein Investors Should Avoid Ego Driven Valuations
Packages of “Impossible Burger” and “Beyond Meat” sit on a shelf for sale on November 15, 2019 in … [+] New York City. – Vegetarian alternatives to burgers and saus...