Every year, GFI evaluates the quantity and mainstream appeal of plant-based entrées on the menus of the top 100 U.S. restaurant chains in our Good Food Restaurant Scorecard. The latest data from 2019 indicates more restaurants now have at least one plant-based entrée option, increasing from 55 chains in 2018 to 58 at the end of 2019. Despite these promising …
Will Cultured Meat Soon Be A Common Sight In Supermarkets Across The Globe?
Up until now, plant-based food companies like Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods, and Quorn have almost singlehandedly worked to lessen the impacts of industrial animal agriculture. Supermarket shelves and fast food restaurants across the US are serving up vegan burgers and meatballs and plant-based chicken nuggets are showing consumers there is an alternative to relying on animal-based protein. But a quiet …
Plantible is Turning Aquatic Plants into Next-Gen Plant-based Protein
Look at an ingredient list for plant-based meat or dairy products, and right up top you’ll probably see pea, soy, wheat, or maybe even mung bean. But San Diego-based startup Plantible is introducing a brand new player to the alternative protein landscape: lemna (commonly known as duckweed). Plantible’s co-founders, Tony Martens and Maurits van de Ven, stumbled upon lemna as …
Bayer Food Focus Project finds food packaging a top concern
Author: Bayer NZImage Credit: Bayer NZ A partnership between leading life science company Bayer and the NZ Nutrition Foundation (NZNF) has released the insights from its inaugural Bayer Food Focus Project, taking a look into Kiwis’ eating behaviours and food consumption. The project consisted of two key parts: the first Australasian pilot study conducted by Auckland University of Technology (AUT), …
Future Food Now: Asia-Pacific
Author: Michal KlarImage Credit: Right Treat and Impossible Foods Omnipork and Impossible Foods in mainland China Global and regional plant-based brands have been expanding to new markets in Asia-Pacific for past few years, but almost no-one entered the mainland China yet (with exception of the limited launch of JUST Egg). It is starting to change now. Green Monday Group, which …