How New Zealand’s Pure Food Co Brings Healthcare Nutrition to France
Forget bland mush in nursing homes as New Zealand’s The Pure Food Co takes its age-care nutrition smarts offshore. Its French subsidiary, The Pure Food Co France, has teamed up with healthcare giant emeis and Sysco France to deliver meals with modified textures (IDDSI 4) that look and taste like real food, not clinical slop.
2 hours ago1 min read
Australia's Sydney Flemington Markets Turns 50 and Still Feeding the City
Half a century on, Sydney, Australia's Flemington Markets are still the beating heart of fruit, veg, and flowers for NSW and the ACT. What began in 1975 with nervous tenants staring at empty stalls has become a 2.5 million-tonne food distribution powerhouse servicing millions across metropolitan Australia.
20 hours ago1 min read
McDonalds Canada Puts Plant Burgers Back on the Map
Remember when McDonalds quietly shelved its McPlant ambitions? Well McDonalds Canada has gone against the memo from head-office. The McVeggie is now going nationwide, slotting a Beyond (Meat ) plant patty into the most mainstream of menus. For a chain still printing cash off Big Macs, this is a consumer signal showing plant-based has staying power, even in the most conservative QSR (Quick Service Restaurant) arena.
21 hours ago1 min read
Anuga 2025 Carves Out a Home for Future Foods - 'Anuga Alternatives'
The world’s biggest food fair just got a plant-and-cell facelift. Anuga’s 2025 edition in Cologne is giving prime floor space to a new 'Anuga Alternatives' hall and it’s not short of headliners. Beyond Meat and Oatly are on the list, but so too are tofu makers like Omami, algae caviar producers like Jens Møller, mycelium innovators like Pacifico Biolabs, sunflower protein players, and egg-free specialists Neggst.
23 hours ago1 min read
United States Meat Alternatives Market (2025)
United States meat alternatives market — still growing on the big picture, but messy up close. DataM pegs the global meat alternatives market at US$9.6bn (2022) with a path to ~US$20.8bn by 2031 (Year on Year Growth~10.2%). That tailwind matters for the U.S., where brands are quietly reshaping ranges even as retailers trim slow movers.
24 hours ago1 min read
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.
2 days ago1 min read
THIS Pastrami Deli Slice Launch
THIS has just lobbed three fresh plant-based products into UK supermarkets, but it’s the pastrami deli slice catching eyes. Forget anaemic slices of soy, this is smoky, chewy, and aimed squarely at the deli shelf where tradition still rules.
2 days ago1 min read
Tonazzo’s Meat Exit Powers Kioene Plant-Based Brand Rise
Italy’s Gruppo Tonazzo, after 136 years in meat, has gone all-in on plants. The family company closed its butchery operations at the end of 2024 and handed the reins to its Kioene plant-based brand, which has been around since the late 1980s. What was once a sideline has now become the centrepiece with attractive packs of mini burgers made from pumpkin, carrots, eggplant, spinach and kale are carried in Carrefour Italy and millions of households nationwide.
4 days ago1 min read
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