Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers American Airlines’s Just Egg scramble, Chanza’s chickpea protein chunks, and Pizza Hut’s The Vegetarian Butcher collab.
New products and launches
In the US, American Airlines has partnered with Eat Just to add a new vegan breakfast option featuring a Just Egg scramble, hash browns, non-dairy cheese, and vegetables. It’s available on select morning flights between Los Angeles and New York in premium economy class.
As part of its Apéro Veggie range, French plant-based meat firm La Vie has launched mini dried sausages, dried chorizos, and chiffonades of ham, which are available at Végétal Food and Official Vegan Shop, and soon at Monoprix, Franprix, Auchan Retail, Carrefour, E Leclerc, and Intermarché.
Texas-based vegan snacking brand All Y’Alls Foods has brought its vegan jerky brand, It’s Jerky Y’all, to Europe, landing on Amazon’s online store in Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Belgium, and Ireland.
UK vegan brand Squeaky Bean has launched two new pies with a base of fermented vegetables. The braised veggie pie and Spanish chorizo-style pie are available at Tesco for £3.75.
Meanwhile, juice machine supplier iSqueeze has partnered with US company Numilk to launch a plant-based milk dispenser in the UK, complete with recyclable pouches that take up eight times less storage space.
British plant-based milk maker Rude Health has unveiled two premium barista milks made from hazelnuts and pistachios, which are blended with an oat base. They will be stocked in Waitrose from October 12 for a hefty £3.95 per one-litre pack.
In Belgium, Pizza Hut has partnered with JBS-owned The Vegetarian Butcher to add Crumble Delight, a plant-based beef crumble pizza, to its menu. The chain is also selling the brand’s vegan chicken nuggets.
And Singaporean plant-based startup Shandi Global has debuted Chanza, a new chickpea protein brand in India, starting with a whole chickpea protein designed as an alternative to meat, paneer and soy chunks. It contains 32g of protein per serving.
Company and finance updates
New York-based vegan discovery box service Vegancuts has been acquired from gift company Bunny James by an all-vegan team of entrepreneurs, including Vegpreneur’s Noah Hyams, Meetup.com co-founder Peter Kamali, and investor Ajay Arora.
British vegan pet food startup Omni has filed and published a patent for a wet cat food product that blends cultivated chicken with plant proteins and starches to form meaty chunks in gravy.
London-based New Wave Biotech has partnered with the UK’s Centre for Process Innovation to apply hybrid AI-powered simulations to optimise both solvent and non-solvent lipid extraction.
US biotech startup Checkerspot has teamed up with Bulgaria’s Huvepharma to produce the former’s fermentation-derived high sn-2 palmitate algal oil at industrial scale. The microalgea-derived ingredient closely replicates triglyceride structures found in human milk fat, and poses an alternative to palm-oil-based formula.
Policy, research and awards
US Senators John Fetterman and Joni Ernst have reintroduced the Consistent Egg Labels Act, a bipartisan bill calling on the FDA to restrict the use of egg-related terms on the labelling of plant-based alternative products.
Forget vegan labels – the best way to get people to choose a plant-based option may be to highlight the protein content instead, as demonstrated by the Better Protein Institute in a study centred on UK fast-food chain Greggs.
Cellular Agriculture Australia has teamed up with the Australian National University‘s Agrifood Innovation Institute and National Security College to urge the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry to spotlight biotechnology in every aspect of its upcoming national security strategy.
Austrian food tech firm Kern Tec‘s upcycled apricot kernel butter and chocolate have been named among this year’s top 10 innovations at the Anuga Taste Innovation Show.
Finally, US carbon butter maker Savor and German whole-cut plant-based meat player Project Eaden have been named in Norrsken Foundation‘s Impact/100 list of the most promising early-stage startups.
Check out last week’s Future Food Quick Bites.
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