Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Redefine Meat’s Asda rollout, Purezza’s new online vegan store, and Beyond Meat’s debt swap.
New products and launches
Redefine Meat is making its brick-and-mortar debut in the UK, launching seven of its 3D-printed plant-based whole cuts in 197 Asda stores, and at least three products in 385 locations.
After selling vegan cheese brand La Fauxmagerie to Honestly Tasty last month, UK plant-based pizza chain Purezza has opened Saporia, a new online marketplace offering over 1,000 vegan products.
UK frozen pizza maker One Planet Pizza has expanded into Thailand, launching its single-serve Three Cheeze Margherita and Spicy Korean Chk’n pizzettas at 60 Tops supermarkets on October 20, in collaboration with Swees Plant-Based Foods.
British gut-friendly food brand Bio&Me has rolled out Daily Boost Fibre + Protein bars in cocoa and blueberry flavours. The women-oriented snacks contain 9g of protein and 10 plant-based ingredients, and are available at Tesco for £3.35 per pack of three 40g bars.
In the US, The Plant-Based Seafood Co has made its vegan dusted scallops, sold under the Mind Blown brand, available in bulk packs for foodservice customers on WebstaurantStore.
And at the same time, The Plant-Based Seafood Co is moving beyond plant-based, launching Smash It Foods, a hybrid seafood brand combining wild-caught salmon with plants, feta and/or honey as part of Superfood Balls.
Company, finance and policy developments
Speaking of blended proteins, Kerry has discontinued the hybrid milk, cheese and butter products it launched under the Smug Dairy brand in the UK, which combined cow’s milk with oat milk. The brand will now focus on dairy snacking instead.
Israeli molecular farming startup Asterix Foods has emerged from stealth with $4.2M in funding to scale up the production of dairy, egg and other animal proteins via plant cell culture and a growing system that leverages cheap plastic bags that can be reused several times.
After proposing an exchange offer for convertible bonds to eliminate over $800M of debt last month, Beyond Meat has closed the settlement two weeks ahead of schedule, with nearly 97% of its holders having already agreed to the swap. But the decision sent its stock crashing to a new all-time low of 85 cents on Monday.
After exiting her embattled animal-free dairy company Fermify, Eva Sommer has joined vegan and vegetarian food discovery platform HappyCow as its new CEO.
DSM-Firmenich has opened the Van Marken Food Innovation Center in Delft, Netherlands, which will serve as the headquarters for its Taste, Texture and Health business, including plant-based alternatives and sugar reduction.
US material science company Corning has entered the cultivated meat world, having published a patent covering edible microcarriers and support structures to produce animal proteins in cell culture.
Finally, a host of future food companies have appeared on DigitalFoodLab‘s list of the most promising agrifood tech startups of 2025, including This, Gourmey, Mosa Meat, Planted, Heura Foods, Solar Foods, La Vie, The Protein Brewery Revyve, Onego Bio, Infinite Roots, Planet A Foods, and Food Brewer.
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