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Malaysia Airlines has quietly rewritten a piece of its brand identity. The carrier’s signature satay skewers, a staple of its premium cabins, now come with a Lion’s Mane mushroom twist. Passengers flying Business Class and Business Suite on routes to Australia, New Zealand, and India can choose the plant-based satay alongside chicken, beef, and lamb, while other long-haul travellers can pre-order it in advance. Same marinade, same service ritual, just plant-based.

This South-Asian pioneer is charting a clear departure from Sri Lanka’s traditional commodity-centric exports. Instead, Miditer is leaning into tiered, value-added opportunities—transforming tropical raw material heritage into branded, certified organic, health-forward FMCG ready for global shelves. With certifications like USDA Organic, EU Organic, BRCGS, Kosher, and ISO 22000 backing its supply chain, Miditer is packaging provenance, sustainability, and functionality into a

They’re cool, clean, and coming in coconut-covered, brain-boosting, and ham-free. A handful of plant-based innovators are either exhibiting at or circling this year’s Fine Food Australia Expo in Sydney and they’re not just tagging along for the free samples.

US-based innovators like Wild Earth and Jiminy’s are using artificial intelligence to formulate plant-based dog food, tailored, traceable, and totally alt-protein. From plant-based blends to insect-derived kibble, the future of pet nutrition is being cooked up in a lab, not a slaughterhouse.

Contrary to clickbait claims and global meat industry 'spin' that Alt meat has collapsed, new market projections show the plant-based meat market is not just stable, it’s scaling.

At the centre of this shift is Bonnie Chung, founder of Miso Tasty, who openly credits Jamie Oliver for showing her how to market miso with simplicity and confidence. His stripped-back tuna + miso recipe eight years ago turned a struggling startup into a supermarket fixture, and his recent use of Miso Tasty on Eat Yourself Healthy has reignited attention.

Forget cautious targets, Lidl GB has blown past its 400% goal for plant-based sales with a staggering 694% surge since 2020. What’s driving it? Not just the meat-free burgers and sausages, but an appetite for whole-food staples like pulses, grains, tofu, and falafels that outperformed meat substitutes by nearly 20%.

Something unusual happened on UK's Ocado this August. Redefine Meat, the Israeli alt-meat brand built on chef-grade cred, surged +248% in searches week-on-week. That’s not just a blip in a vegan niche, that’s a mainstream summer signal. The reason? It was BBQ season in the UK, and shoppers wanted burgers and koftas looking, cooking, and searing like the real thing, but without the cow.

The verdict - those who ate the most butter faced a 15% higher risk of dying, while those reaching for plant-oils like olive, canola, or soy oils enjoyed a 16% lower risk. So simply swapping one tablespoon of butter for plant-based oils a day cut overall and cancer-related mortality by 17%.

Little Lato has done it again. For the second year running, the Auckland dairy-free gelato maker has scooped the Tetra Pak Dairy-Free Champion at the NZ Ice Cream & Gelato Awards, with its Mango Lassi Vegan Gelato.

Edinburgh-based Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) and Aberdeen’s Modutec signed a deal to build what they’re calling the world’s first “GigaFarm” in Dubai’s Food Tech Valley. The first 20 towers are shipping now, with a full build-out of 200 growth towers projected to crank out more than 3,000 tonnes of fresh produce a year. What's interesting is that volume replaces just one per cent of the UAE’s fruit and veg imports, a glimpse of how much reliance on overseas supply chain

Australia’s mushroom meat darling Fable Food Co. has scored another big win in the fast-casual space. Its smoky, rich pulled shiitake has just landed in Zambrero’s Signature Burrito, rolled out across nearly 300 restaurants nationwide. Paired with the chain’s limited-time Truffelo Sauce, the burrito is loaded with mushrooms, veggies, corn, pepitas, and serious flavour.