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Fat Chance, Meat Lovers Because Tastilux Is Here to Fool Your Taste Buds (and That’s a Good Thing)
Australian food tech outfit Nourish Ingredients has created Tastilux - an animal-free fat so convincing it could pass for the real deal in a blindfolded taste test. No cows, no pigs, no chickens involved. Just precision fermentation wizardry, a partnership with China’s Cabio Biotech, and a whole lot of science making your fake meat feel frighteningly real.
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From NZ to Tokyo as Nutrition from Water Drops Anchor with Japan’s Protein Kingpin
Portugal-based Kiwi startup Nutrition from Water™ (NXW) - founded by New Zealander Alex Worker - has just signed a deal with Nissei Kyoeki, one of Japan’s long-standing protein import royalty. Together, they’re launching NXW's Marine Whey, a next-gen protein brewed not from cows, but from the sea. Yep, it's protein. From water.
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Feeding 10 Billion? NZ’s CellAg Symposium Says the Science Is Here, But Who’s Paying?
Can cellular agriculture feed 10 billion people by 2050? That was the big question behind New Zealand’s first in-person CellAg Symposium, held in Nelson and hosted by Plant & Food Research. Nearly 70 scientists, engineers, founders, investors, and regulators came together from across New Zealand, Australia, and beyond to chart the future of food and what’s needed to get there.
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VCs Love Future FoodTech But Just Not When Women Are Behind It
In Israel’s booming future FoodTech sector, where everything from lab-grown tuna to AI-designed proteins is being cooked up, women are doin
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AUSTRALIA SIGNS OFF ON CULTIVATED QUAIL AS VOW MAKES HISTORY WITH WORLD-FIRST FSANZ APPROVAL
Well, it’s official. Australia has just greenlit its first-ever lab-grown meat and it’s not beef, chicken or kangaroo. It’s quail. Cultivate
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Breast Milk Ice Cream? Frida Says Chill It’s (Almost) Real
Frida, the brand best known for solving weird baby problems (like sucking snot out of tiny noses), has announced its next frontier - breast
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Why Aussie & Kiwi Artisanal Food Brands May Have Just Found Their Moment in China
While the US flexes its economic biceps with another round of tariffs on Chinese goods, on the ground in China, no one’s reaching for Americ
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Aldi’s ‘Dubai Chocolate’ Ice Cream Hits UK Freezers
Aldi, UK has just dropped a supermarket-first in the form of Dubai Chocolate Style Ice Cream, riding the viral wave of Middle Eastern-inspir
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Eat Plants, Live Longer as New Study Finds 22% Drop in Death Risk with Plant-Based Diets
A new Spanish study shows people who stick to the Planetary Health Diet cut their risk of death by 22%. The Mediterranean Diet comes close.
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Rocket-Fuelled Romaine? Australia Trials Space-Grown Greens
Sustainable plant-based food production is heading to space, with Australian scientists preparing to trial next-gen tech that could one day
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REVO Foods Launches EL BLANCO a 3D-Printed Cod Packed with Omegas and Zero Ocean Drama
Austrian based, Revo Foods just dropped EL BLANCO, a 3D-printed cod dupe so brain-boosting and buttery it might make your omega-3 supplement
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Smoked Bamboo Shoots Meet Plant-Based Rendang as Indonesian Vegan Startup Cooks Up a Storm
Indonesia’s flexitarian food scene just got a whole lot smokier and smarter. Arik Thohari, the quietly persistent founder of Meatree, has tr
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