Food Biotech Is Moving Behind the Label
A new global food biotech shortlist isn't the final word on who will shape 2027, but it provides a remarkably telling picture of where food biotech is heading.
Protein Production Technology International (PPTI) has shortlisted 81 companies from 379 nominations for its eventual 27 Food-Techs to Watch in 2027. Public voting remains open until October 23, with the final 27 due to be revealed in Amsterdam in November.
So this is not yet the Top 27.
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What If Olive Oil Didn't Have a Harvest Season?
For thousands of years, olive oil has been governed by one unavoidable constraint in the form of the harvest clock. Pick the olives, get them to the mill quickly, extract the oil and then begin the slow decline from freshly pressed oil to a product that may spend months in tanks, bottles, warehouses and retail distribution.
3 days ago3 min read
Impossible Stopped Waiting for Heme And Walked Into Tesco
Impossible Foods has found a pragmatic way into one of Europe’s most important grocery markets simply by stopping to waiting for its signature heme ingredient to be approved.
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THE PROTEIN WE’VE BEEN THROWING AWAY
Every time tofu or soymilk is produced, a wet soybean pulp called okara is left behind. It still contains valuable nutrients and protein, but because it is highly perishable, fibrous and relatively unappealing in taste and texture, much of it ends up as low-value animal feed or food waste.
5 days ago3 min read
Smuggled Garlic - Inside The Shadow Food Trade
Garlic may seem an unlikely window into a global shadow food trade. Yet reports of Chinese garlic being smuggled into Mexico and Peru raise a much bigger question: how much food is already moving across borders outside the systems designed to tell us where it came from?
Sep 193 min read
Farm Prices Fall. Why Aren’t Vegetables Getting Cheaper?
Abundant crops, struggling growers and consumers still watching every dollar are exposing a curious fault line in the fresh produce business. Why aren't vegetables getting cheaper?
Sep 184 min read
Food Biotech’s US$75,000 Second Life
Meati lost the bathwater, but a remarkably well-priced baby has been saved providing food biotech's second life.
Somewhere amid the collapse and attempted revival of US alternative-protein company Meati Foods, a valuable piece of the food-biotech future was left behind: twelve 25,000-litre fermentation tanks, their associated seed systems and a combined 300,000 litres of production capacity.
Sep 174 min read
Five Food Signals That Matter This Week
Food innovation is entering a more commercially disciplined phase. The strongest developments are no longer technology demonstrations or novelty launches, they involve proven manufacturing, familiar applications and clearly defined routes to market. Here are five consequential food signals from the past week
Sep 143 min read
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