China Is Turning Vegetables Into Premium "Fruit" Snack Food
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
9 hours ago3 min read
Tofu Wins the Protein Test — Cheese Comes Last
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.
1 day ago4 min read
Scientists Are Turning Plastic Waste Into Edible Biscuits. But Would You Eat Them?
A discarded plastic bottle could one day become part of turning plastic waste Into edible biscuits.Researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale have demonstrated a process which breaks PET plastic and agricultural waste into smaller carbon-rich molecules before feeding them to engineered yeasts. The microbes convert that carbon into protein, fats and other food components, which can then be combined with starch and fibre and 3D-printed into foods including a prototy
3 days ago1 min read
Matcha Is Becoming Bigger Than Japan And Japan Knows It
For centuries matcha was inseparable from Japan. Now its extraordinary global popularity is beginning to create something Japan has encountered before with other prized agricultural products: a successful food becoming an international category that other countries want to produce.
Aug 272 min read
New Zealand’s Avocado Crop Has Been Hit By Its Worst Frost In 30 Years
New Zealand avocado growers are still counting the cost of an extraordinary winter freeze that struck some of the country's principal growing regions, raising the prospect of reduced domestic avocado availability and another reminder of just how exposed fresh-food production can be to a few hours of extreme weather.
Aug 252 min read
The Protein Factory Is Starting to Feed Itself
The protein factory of the future may operate less like a production line and more like a living ecosystem, recycling its own nutrients to produce the next batch of food.
Researchers at the University of Queensland have developed a circular system using waste from cultivated-meat production to grow microalgae. The algae absorb nutrients left behind in the cell-growth process, produce oxygen and are then processed so some of those nutrients can be fed back into the system to
Aug 242 min read
Israeli Meat Company Soglowek Buys Into Thailand’s Plant-Based Manufacturing Future
Israel’s Soglowek is moving beyond its traditional meat business by acquiring 70% of Plant & Bean Thailand, signalling ambitions to become a global protein company, not simply a larger plant-based meat producer.
Aug 222 min read
Protein Is Starting to Break Free From the Animal That Made It
Israeli based, Ever After Foods' acquisition of Belgium cultivated-fish specialist Fishway might look like another piece of consolidation in food biotech. But something more interesting is happening underneath it.
Aug 192 min read
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