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Five Iconic Plant Food Restaurants Defining Melbourne’s Dining Ethos in 2025
Melbourne’s vegan food scene in 2025? It’s not a trend. It’s the table. As more diners ditch the steak and chase the umami high of truffle, tamale, and woodfired cauliflower, a handful of iconic plant food restaurants are shaping the city’s culinary DNA, one daring, dairy-free dish at a time.
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Paris Is Plant-Forward Now? Mais Oui, Says the Menu and the Data
In a city that once wrapped foie gras in bacon and served it with a side of veal, the idea of plant-forward dining might’ve once earned a baguette to the face. But in 2025, things have changed, dramatically.
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The End of the Imitation Game Future Plant-Based Meat Isn’t Trying to Be Meat
New data from the Good Food Institute (GFI) reveals a sobering truth that most people who try plant-based meat don’t stick with it. But that’s not the real story. Look closer and you’ll see the shift away from mimicry, away from bleeding patties - toward something more interesting - plant-based protein products not pretending to be meat at all.
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India’s Fresh Food Frenzy and How 10-Minute Deliveries Are Rewiring the Indian Diet
Leading the pack is Kisan Konnect, a farm-to-fridge juggernaut that’s tapped into India’s new obsession is right in the middle of India's fresh food frenzy delivering fast, fresh, and traceable food. Think e-commerce, but with tomatoes. Q-commerce is already redefining shopping in India (10-minute deliveries, no joke), but this is QF-commerce - Quick. Fresh. Local. It’s a dietary shift disguised as a delivery service.
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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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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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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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Craving Calm as First Quarter 2025 Food Trends Show We’re All Just Eating Our Feelings
Let’s be honest, we’re eating our feelings. Whether it’s the weight-loss wonder drugs, TikTok pistachio lattes, or that sudden urge to eat l
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Plant-Based Restaurants Shake Up Asia’s 50 Best in 2025
Four plant-based restaurants make waves in Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025 list, including one in the top 5. Here’s who’s serving meat-free
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Meat Giant Swallows Plant-Based Darling as JBS’s Vivera Takes Over The Vegetarian Butcher
Well, well, well it looks like the carnivores are coming for the plant-based aisle. In a move that’ll have purists clutching at their tofu p
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Plant-Based Meat Is Taking Over France—And the Science Backs It Up
It's an absolute disaster right now for anyone in France thinking plant-based meat is going away. First up, Heura Foods just made history
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Juicy Marbles Unleashes Pork-Ish – The Whole-Cut Plant-Based Pork That’s Raising Culinary Eyebrows
Slovinian based, Juicy Marbles has done it again. This time, they’re coming for pork. Meet Pork-Ish, the world’s first whole-cut plant-based
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