Bobby-Calf Protein Snack Wins Fieldays Award – and Sparks Fresh Calls for Cultivated Meat
Bobby-calf protein snack, Mīti, has walked away with a prized Fieldays 2025 Innovation Award, but the win has ignited backlash over New Zealand’s long-running bobby-calf dilemma and sharpened consumer curiosity about cultivated, bio-manufactured meat alternatives. Oamaru start-up Alps2Ocean Foods Tapui Ltd took the Early-Stage and People’s Choice trophies for a “world-first, shelf-stable, functional protein snack” made from surplus dairy calves – animals routinely removed fro
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Australians Say They Know About Cultivated Meat – But Fewer Are Willing to Eat It
Australia and New Zealand's food regulator, FSANZ, has released fresh numbers showing while awareness of cultivated meat remains steady, confidence in eating it hasn’t budged and for a country eyeing food-tech as its next big export opportunity, that’s a bit of a snag.
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Spending on Feelings Pushes Mood Foods into Mainstream as Consumers Ditch Guilt for Glow
Circana’s June report confirms what supermarket aisles have been quietly whispering for months and this is emotional eating is having a very public moment. Sales of products offering mental wellness benefits are holding strong, despite belt-tightening elsewhere in the basket. While shoppers are trading down on pantry basics, they’re deliberately trading up on food feeding the mind. And mood foods are leading the way.
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Sunny Side Up as Sunflower Flour Emerges as Brazil’s Bold New Plant-Meat
Developed by São Paulo’s food-tech boffins at UNICAMP and ITAL, with help from Germany’s Fraunhofer IVV Institute, the new ‘vegan meat’ is based on sunflower flour, the stuff left behind after extracting oil from sunflower seeds. Think of it as culinary upcycling with some pretty smart tweaks.
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Gen Z Brits Ready to Push Cultivated Meat into Mainstream says Poll
Britain’s Generation Z (16–30 years) are emerging as early adopters of cultured meat, marking a significant milestone for cellular agriculture. A new Ipsos Observer UK poll of 1,098 adults reveals 47% of Gen Z Brits would be willing to eat cultivated meat. That’s nearly half of young consumers open to ditching meat derived from living animals for something brewed in a bioreactor.
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Finally, Plant-Based Shrimp Without the Shellfish Worries - Beleaf Does It Again
Enter Beleaf. The Californian plant-based outfit just dropped a game changer: allergen-free Plant-Based Shrimp and it doesn’t just mimic the real thing, it does it without a trace of crustacean, contamination risk, or cleanup hassle.
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Little Pips Soda Syrups Takes Off with First Big Production Run
Kiwi start-up. Little Pips Soda Syrups, a boutique beverage company founded by Pip Malpas, has celebrated a major milestone with its inaugural large-scale production run at the New Zealand Food Innovation Network (NZFIN).
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Swiss Mandate Forces “Pain Notice” on Meat Labels - Could ANZ Be Next?
From next week, every Swiss steak, sausage, litre of milk or carton of eggs must reveal if the animal was castrated, dehorned, beak-trimmed, tail-docked or otherwise “worked on” without anaesthetic – a move the Swiss says will drag hidden suffering “out of the shadows and onto the shelf”. Imported products aren’t spared - exporters shipping into Zurich or Geneva will have to print the same bad news 'Pain Notice' on the pack.
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