China Cracks Industrial-Scale Cultivated Cultivated Pork In A World First
China has just vaulted to the front of the global cultivated meat race with the announcement Joes Future Food has commissioned the country’s largest cultivated meat pilot plant and completed the world’s first scaled trial production of cultivated pork in a 2000-litre bioreactor. This moves cultivated pork from research curiosity toward real production models supporting massive commercialisation. Such pilot scale is rare in the global sector and signals China’s growing enginee
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Kombucha as a Gateway to Metabolic Ferments
A new computational study from the UK has thrown a curveball at the functional-food world as researchers find sterilised plant-based metabolic ferments, dead ferments, may still exert meaningful metabolic effects along obesity and type-2 diabetes pathways. Forget probiotics and gut flora nostalgia, these researchers are mapping how heat-treated ferments could influence insulin signalling, lipid regulation, and appetite control without the live bacteria consumers assume are do
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ALDI £1.99 Plant-Based Play Rewrites the Veganuary Rulebook
ALDI UK is quietly doing what many plant-based brands keep promising but have not yet delivered: making meat-free eating genuinely affordable. Just ahead of Veganuary, the UK grocer has expanded its Plant Menu private-label range with a Vegetable Burger, Vegetable Popcorn Bites and No Chicken Pieces, all landing at £1.99 and hitting shelves from 30 December 2025. No premium pricing. No virtue tax. Just plant-based food priced like everyday food.
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