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Indian Meal-Building: The $Billion Accompaniment Market Hiding in Plain Sight
Forget just ready-meals and curry kits, Indian meal-building kit's secret power is in accompaniments. Think naan, paratha, rotis, samosas, pakoras, chutneys, pickles and raita bases. These aren’t full meals, but they’re the missing links that make a plate feel whole.
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The Mushroom Meat Co. Turns Up the Heat with Four New Flavours
US Based, The Mushroom Meat Co. has dropped four bold, pre-seasoned flavours in the form of Carne Asada Bites, Korean BBQ Bites, Pulled Carnitas, and Southern BBQ Pulled, all crafted for chefs who need speed without compromising flavour.
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Now 8: Fix & Fogg Nut Butters Go Coast-to-Coast in the U.S.
There’s nothing parochial about this Kiwi product. Wellington’s Fix & Fogg has pulled off what most Kiwi food brands only ever dream of. Eight nut butters now line every Whole Foods shelf across the United States, the home of peanut butter itself.
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The New Tesla Diner in LA Has Missed the Sustainability Offramp
The neon glows at the new Tesla diner, the roller-skates glide, and the Cybertruck boxes stack neatly beside burgers and fries. But when the dust settles around Tesla’s much-hyped “retro-futuristic” Diner & Drive-In in Los Angeles, there’s one awkward question buzzing louder than the Superchargers outside: where exactly is the sustainability?
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Is This Plant-Based Salmon Going Change Everything in Food Service?
That’s the reality for Oshi, whose hyper-realistic plant-based salmon has just landed in five US Sysco warehouses, with full integration into the Sysco Marketplace underway. That marketplace reaches 18% of the entire US foodservice sector, which, by conservative estimates, puts Oshi within striking distance of $200–300 million in potential annual procurement value.
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Did China Just Try to Sabotage America’s Food Supply with Deadly Wheat Virus?
Two Chinese nationals have been charged by the FBI after attempting to smuggle a dangerous fungus into the United States. Not just any deadly wheat virus in the form of a mould - Fusarium graminearum, the crop-wrecking culprit behind Fusarium Head Blight. This isn’t a garden-variety contaminant. It’s a pinkish, spore-spewing agri-menace capable of decimating wheat, corn, barley and rice...
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Warning to US Sports Fans- That Hot Dog Could Be Killing You - Time to Sub in Alt Plant-Based
So lets look at the great American pastime: baseball, beer, and a dodgy meat tube wrapped in nostalgia and nitrates. But just as the crack of the bat returns, a new headline has us gagging on tradition, literally. A new media storm is brewing over the “Death in a Bun” hot dog bombshell, and suddenly that stadium frank looks less like fun and more like a colorectal time bomb.
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EatKinda Pulls the Plug on New Zealand Cauliflower Ice Cream - But It’s Not Goodbye, It’s a Plot Twist
If you've been scooping up cauliflower ice cream and telling yourself it's the future, you’re not wrong - you’re just about to be a few thou
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What’s Driving the Surge as US Plant-Based Food Market Poised to Triple by 2033?
The US plant-based food market is forecast to grow from $9.87 billion in 2024 to $26.72 billion by 2033, according to a report by Research a
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Could the U.S. Dietary Shift Spark a Global Plant-Based Revolution?
What if a U.S. dietary shift caused by evolving dietary guidelines, combined with political winds of change, were about to reshape not just
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How Would You Like Your Tea in '25? From Kombucha Cocktails to Boozy Brews?
Move over coffee - 2025 is shaping up to be the year tea reclaims the spotlight, this time with a modern twist. According to Whole Foods Mar
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US Storms Catapult Kiwi Oat Milk Maker onto Global Stage
In a striking turn of events, New Zealand’s Maker oat milk powder company, founded just over a year ago, has found itself overwhelmed by unp
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