Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers a new GLP-1 alternative drink, Canada’s pea protein bet, and the European Space Agency’s cultivated meat project.
New products and launches
Texas-based Ozzi has launched Crave Crusher, a plant-based drink designed to suppress appetite and serve as an alternative to GLP-1 drugs. It’s free from caffeine and is available on its website for $60 per 20-stick pack in watermelon, grape and lychee flavours.
Meanwhile, California’s Glucostra has introduced a plant-based supplement with 20 botanicals and metabolic nutrients to support healthy blood sugar management.
NBA player Chris Paul’s vegan snack brand, Good Eat’n, has rolled out five of its products at over 1,000 Walmart stores nationwide, including popcorn, tortilla chips, and puffs.
US plant-based milk producer Malk Organics has released a four-ingredient shelf-stable vanilla almond milk, which is available at Whole Foods Market and Amazon.
Finnish gas protein firm Solar Foods has partnered with US-based Sensapure Flavors to create new flavour combinations for its shake and ready-to-drink beverage concepts made with Solein protein.
In the UK, vegan meal kit startup Grubby has unveiled a Plant Points menu based on the 30-plants-a-week concept. One of the eight recipes features This‘s new Super Superfood protein block.
Swiss firms Yumame Foods and Le Patron have teamed up to develop tasty, healthy and sustainable plant-based foods.
And vegan discovery platform abillion has partnered with Australian meat-free startup Plantein Foods to expand its distribution.
Company and finance updates
Snacking company Pladis has kicked off its first Accelerator Programme with 12 startups, including fibre-to-sugar startup Zye and AI protein discovery firm Shiru.
Dutch cultivated fat startup Upstream Foods has ceased operations, with its founder and CEO citing fundraising difficulties.
Speaking of cultivated meat, India’s Biokraft Foods has announced The Great Indian Cultivated Chicken Cook-off for chefs and innovators to cook with its cultured chicken.
More from this sector: Multus Biotechnology and Fishway have teamed up to develop scalable, cost-competitive cultivated fish, combining the former’s AI-led media optimisation platform with the latter’s expertise in fish cell line development.
Protein Industries Canada has announced a C$4.87M ($3.6M) new pilot project to meet the demand for better-tasting and more nutritious pea protein, in partnership with Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) and the Seven Oaks Hospital Chronic Disease Innovation Center.
South Korean plant-based dairy company Armored Fresh has appointed David Benzaquen as its new director of sales strategy and Geo-Yoo Kim as its new CTO.
Research and policy developments
The European Space Agency is seeking proposals to investigate cellular agriculture as a novel technique to produce food, especially cultivated meat, in future space missions.
The term ‘lab-grown’ meat enjoys a 20-point advantage in consumer understanding over ‘cell-cultivated’ in the UK, where 26% are willing to include it in their diet, according to the Food Standards Agency.
Also in the UK, over 100 parents have signed a petition to reinstate meat-based dishes at Sharow School in Sheffield, which advertises itself as a vegetarian primary school.
In the Philippines, 91% of consumers believe plant-based foods and meat analogues are healthier than animal proteins, and 83% want to increase their intake in the coming year.
Dutch ingredient specialist Corbion has secured multiple regulatory approvals from China’s General Administration of Customs for its algae-derived omega-3 products, marketed under the AlgaPrime DHA and AlgaVia DHA brands.
And researchers at India’s Lovely Professional University have developed plant-based fermented probiotic gummies to offer a palatable, safe, and effective natural digestive health solution, particularly for children and those seeking clean-label alternatives.
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