Category: synthetic food
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One of the benefits of using a connected oven like the June is the fact that the built-in HD camera automatically recognizes the food you’re cooking. Throw in a salmon and the June recognizes it, and helps you cook it perfectly. Even if it doesn’t automatically recognize a food, the touchscreen UI is clear enough…
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Seattle Food Tech, a startup that creates plant-based “chicken” nuggets, has raised a fresh $1 million in capital from investors including Liquid 2 Ventures, Sinai Ventures Fund, Uphones Capital and VegInvest (h/t Food-Navigator). This brings the total amount raised by Seattle Food Tech to $2 million. Seattle Food Tech separates itself from other alterna-meat companies…
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Mike Lee, founder of food-concept hub Alpha Food Labs, kicked off his Smart Kitchen Summit presentation this morning by talking about cars. Specifically, concept cars that never actually made it to market but were, according to Lee, “a reflection of the aspirations of that time.” Food is the new Cadillac, it seems, and Lee sees…
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The first thing fans of Beyond Meat (of whom I am one) should know is that the company knows their product is hard to find and they are working on it. Beyond Meat just brought on a second production facility in Missouri to help fill the empty aisles at your local grocery store (except for…
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Though companies have come up with various sugar substitutes over time, none have overthrown the king (and those substitutes might create their own problems). If you can’t beat ’em, you may as well use science to get down on the molecular level and join ’em. Companies around the world are using various techniques not to replace…
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You can tell a market sector is heating up when it gets its own conference. Cellular agriculture, which includes cultured meat (or lab meat or clean meat or whatever you want to call it) is definitely getting hotter as people gather today and tomorrow at the New Harvest 2018 conference over at MIT. New Harvest…
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It looks like the debate over what we label cultured/lab grown/clean “meat” will not be isolated to the deli case. If the comments made by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb today are any indication, there will be another drawn out battle over what we label as “milk.” Speaking at the Politico Pro…
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Today cultured seafood company Finless Foods CEO & Co-founder Mike Selden wrote a piece on Medium announcing that they had closed a $3.5 million seed round. The round was led by Draper Associates, with participation from Softmatter VC, Blue Horizon, Hemisphere Ventures, Yakumi Investment and more. In the piece, Selden wrote that this invesment would bring…
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There has been a lot of activity and investment in the lab-grown meat, or “cultured” meat space in the past year. Enough so that it has attracted the attention of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which announced today that it will be holding a public meeting about cultured meat technology next month. For…
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Tyson just announced a new name on the list of alterna-meat manufacturers it backs: Future Meat. Tyson co-led the Israeli based startup’s $2.2 million seed round, in which the Neto Group, S2G Ventures, BitsXBites, and Agrinnovation also participated. Future Meat manufactures animal fat and muscle cells for meat without ever having to actually raise and slaughter…
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“Dad, I think you’re addicted, and you shouldn’t play tonight.” That’s my seven year old acting like a parent, out of concern that I’ve been playing video games too much lately. He’s not entirely wrong. We picked up The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for the Nintendo Switch a couple of months back,…
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Ah, Instagram. You keep us entertained in airports, waiting for the bus, and standing in line at the post office. You keep us up to date on our acquaintance’s lives and celebrity’s lives. Sometimes you even inspire us. If you want to add some delicious, weird, and informative food-focused Instagrams into your feed, we’ve got…
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