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GLP-1 drugs may have triggered America’s protein obsession, but the greater opportunity is emerging from a more disruptive change: consumers are beginning to buy and eat less. Food companies and supermarkets must now extract greater nutritional and commercial value from every mouthful.

For decades, the stone or kernel hidden inside an apricot stone has had a rather complicated reputation. Now Austrian food-tech company Revo Foods is turning this unlikely raw material into a fermented, high-protein food headed for supermarket shelves.

Sri Lanka’s processed-food exports are emerging as one of the strongest areas of the country’s merchandise trade, providing evidence manufacturers are capturing more value from local agricultural ingredients rather than relying entirely on commodity exports. Previously reported by PFN.

Steakholder Foods is taking its Perfecta range into American retail - betting whole cuts, marbling and better texture can bring consumers back to plant-based meat. Plant-based steaks - filet mignon, marbled steak and chicken breast are moving onto supermarket shelves in the United States as Israeli food-tech company Steakholder Foods begins the first commercial retail rollout of its Perfecta Premium Plant-Based Meat range.

Vegetables marketed as “fruit-type” produce are booming in China, commanding substantially higher prices even as conventional fruit prices weaken. The emerging category - premium "fruit" snack food - includes cucumbers, sweetcorn, carrots and other vegetables selected for sweeter flavour, thinner skins, crisper texture and easy snacking. The word “fruit” is intended to suggest produce that can be eaten conveniently and enjoyably—rather than describe any new botanical category

A new protein-scoring system has looked beyond protein grams to assess what foods deliver for people, household budgets and the planet. The result puts one familiar plant food firmly on top. Tofu has been ranked the best all-round protein source in a new protein test combining nutrition, affordability, availability and environmental impact.