Alternative Protein

Plant-Based Meats

Brazilian plant-based brand Future Farm expands distribution in the U.S.

April 5, 2022

Brazilian-founded food-tech brand Future Farm is continuing its launch into the U.S., most recently exhibiting at the 2022 Natural Products Expo West conference in Anaheim, California.

Plant-Based Meats

Next Meats USA offers plant-based short ribs and skirt steaks

April 1, 2022

The Japanese-based manufacturer of plant-based meat alternative products is offering two products in six Tokyo Central stores and four Marukai stores throughout Southern California and the Bay Area.

Miguel Patricio, CEO at Kraft Heinz (left) and Matias Muchnick, Co-Founder and CEO at NotCo

Scaling up plant-based products with artificial intelligence

This Kraft-Heinz/TheNotCompany, Inc. joint-venture has both the smarts and the manufacturing capabilities to push creative new alternative proteins to market

March 30, 2022

The Kraft Heinz Company and food tech start-up TheNotCompany, Inc. announced a joint venture designed to reimagine global food production and advance toward a more sustainable future.

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BioBetter extracts growth factors for scaled cultivated meat production from tobacco plants

March 29, 2022

FoodTech start-up, BioBetter, Ltd., has assigned a new role for the much-maligned Nicotiana tabacum plant upon discovering it can overcome the greatest hurdle in cultured meat—that of scaled production.

Aleph Farms’ scientists, Dr. Keren Tazat-Fireberg and Dr. Hezi Hayun, analyze collagen-producing cells under a microscope. Photo courtesy Aleph Farms

Cell Cultured Products

Beyond cell-cultured meat to other useful products--without the cow

Once the technology was in place to produce steak, Aleph Farms extended its development process to produce collagen

March 16, 2022

Aleph Farms, purveyor of cultivated beef steaks, hasn’t stopped at just producing steak without the cow.

Pilot Plant Tel Aviv Cultivated Meat SuperMeat

Alternative Proteins

Ajinomoto invests in SuperMeat, focuses on establishing supply chain for cultivated meat industry

March 11, 2022

SuperMeat, a food-tech company focused on cultivated meat, announced a new strategic partnership with Ajinomoto to establish a commercially viable supply chain platform for the cultivated meat industry.

Production To Fork Cultured Meat Manufacturing Facility

Editor's Note

What’s in a Name?

Michael Costa

March 9, 2022

The cultivated meat industry is still in its infancy, and like many other burgeoning technologies—food or otherwise—the actual agreed-upon name for what the finished product will be called is being debated by those who make it.

Lettuce wraps using Finless Foods’ plant-based tuna. (Photo: Business Wire)

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Finless Foods to launch plant-based tuna in 2022, complete construction of cell-cultured tuna pilot plant

Founded on the vision of producing alternative seafood for a thriving ocean, Finless lands a strategic partner to translate vision into reality

March 8, 2022

Finless Foods, said to be the first cell-cultured seafood company as well as the first to serve cell-cultured fish in the U.S., announced the closing of its Series B funding totaling $34M led by Hanwha Solutions.

Alternative Proteins

Cell-by date: The state of cultivated meat

Where the industry stands today and what barriers still exist for commercial-scale production.

Michael Costa

March 8, 2022

A snapshot of where cultivated meat stands in 2022, along with equipment and facilities needed to meet anticipated demand, and when initial products could finally reach the marketplace.