Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Pamela Anderson’s vegan pickles, Oatly and Häagen-Dazs’s ice cream collab, and Actual Veggies’s Indian-inspired burger.
New products and launches
Hollywood actress Pamela Anderson has partnered with Los Angeles-based Flamingo Estate to launch a limited-edition batch of Pamela’s Pickles. They are based on a family recipe and described as smoky and spicy, and can be found on the brand’s website for $38 a pop. All proceeds go to California Wildlife Center, a non-profit veterinary hospital.
Mr Charlie’s Told Me So, dubbed a ‘vegan McDonald’s’, has opened a new location in Brentwood, Santa Monica, and is offering free Not A Cheeseburger and fries to the first 111 visitors on its launch on August 16.
Oat milk leader Oatly‘s limited-edition collaboration with ice-cream maker Häagen-Dazs Shops is now live at the latter’s US stores. The Blueberry Lemon Non-Dairy Freeze blends the Summer Blueberry & Lemon Sorbet with Oatly’s milk and real blueberry preserve, and is available until the end of the month.
Baked by Sticky, the vegan dessert brand owned by Washington DC bakery Sticky Fingers, has launched a high-protein range of cookies and brownies using Eat Just‘s single-ingredient mung bean protein powder. They’re available at hundreds of stores in the US, and can be shipped nationwide.
Minnesota-based vegan bakery Front Porch Pies‘s products have been rolled out at all Dogwood Coffee and Backstory Coffee locations.
Animal rights charity Peta is giving out free vegan ice cream on its first annual i Scream truck tour, covering New York, Boston, Burlington, Philadelphia, Providence, and other cities nationwide over the next eight weeks.
In South Africa, Fry Family Foods is targeting meat reducers with a newly released Flexi Range, comprising a Smash Burger, Classic Sizzler, and Braai Sizzler.
UK plant-based meat brand Moving Mountains has secured a listing at online retailer Ocado for its vegetable-led Superfood range, comprising a spicy burger, crispy dippers, and spicy bites. Each product contains almost 15 ‘plant points‘ and costs £3.50.
Whole-food brand Actual Veggies has unveiled its first collaboration product, a Chickpea Masala Burger made in partnership with award-winning Indian chef Maya Kaimal. It will roll out in the freezers of Sprouts Farmers Market stores this month.
Company and research developments
Actual Veggies has also been named on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US, debuting at number 563 overall and number 23 in the food and beverage category.
Finnish gas protein startup Solar Foods is working with the city of Lappeenranta to reserve a site to carry out preliminary studies for the construction of its Factory 02, which would be able to produce 12,800 tonnes of its Solein protein every year.
Amid talk of a foray into blended meat, Impossible Foods has reached a major milestone: six years of its Impossible Whopper partnership with Burger King, a deal that helped put the plant-based meat giant on the map.
Livekindly Collective‘s Anja Grunefeld has stepped down from her role as CEO and head of its Europe operations to pursue other opportunities, with CEO David Suarez taking over management of the region.
Canadian publicly listed company Planet Based Foods has appointed Supreet Sidhu as CFO, who will take over from Emrah Petorak. The move is part of an operational turnaround to rebuild investor confidence.
Policy and research developments
Peta has become a shareholder of Domino’s Pizza as part of its Vegan Cheese, Please campaign. The move will allow it to attend annual meetings, submit resolutions, and urge executives to introduced non-dairy cheese options in the US.
RespectFarms, a cultivated meat research project helping farmers transition to sustainable food systems, is working on a new film to showcase its efforts, as part of the EU-backed Fostering European Cellular Agriculture for Sustainable Transition Solutions (FEASTS) consortium.
Finally, in Australia, the Universal Society of Hinduism is asking for an official apology from Swiss food giant Nestlé for not disclosing the use of beef in various locally manufactured products, including Allen’s Lollies (which contains gelatin).
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