Category: Education & Discovery
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Food-X, a hugely popular startup accelerator for food businesses, today announced the eight chosen companies for Cohort 11 of its program. While they vary in focus — food traceability, restaurant tech, pet food, and upcycling — the selected companies all share Food-X’s mission of solving some of the biggest challenges the global food system faces.…
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Startups, take note. The next installment of Cornell University and the state of New York’s Grow-NY business competition is set to take place from September to November of this year and currently taking applications, according to a press release from Cornell. This installment is part of a larger three-year initiative that launched in 2019 with…
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Certain food sources, like e-commerce grocery sites and meal kit companies, are seeing a boost in sales in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, many parts of the world are shuttering farmers markets and restaurants, eliminating key revenue sources for local farmers. So how can those farmers survive in our new…
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Organizers have cancelled the annual National Restaurant Association Show, which was set to take place this May in Chicago. A letter posted today on The Association’s site calls the cancellation “unavoidable” as concerns around the spread of coronavirus grow and large gatherings are banned. The Association said it has been monitoring the situation for “many…
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If you’re a parent working from home with kids out of school, chances are you’re on the lookout for creative ways to distract them — hopefully while they learn some things. Maybe one of those things will be how to cook. Recipe platform Delish is launching an Instagram Live series to teach parents and kids…
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Being in the business of covering food news, it’s easy to be all doom and gloom right now. While the COVID-19 outbreak is certainly causing huge disruptions in the foodservice industry, there are some silver linings. The coronavirus — and subsequent social distancing measures — could have a real effect within our own kitchen. Reuters…
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For the last couple weeks, I’ve been working out of the Food-X office, one of the most well-known food tech accelerators in the world. And amid news of state-wide restaurant closures, events getting postponed or cancelled, and other ways coronavirus has set the food industry reeling, I found myself wondering what happens to startup accelerator…
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Sticking to a diet — or avoiding an allergen — is hard enough without having to worry about potentially hidden ingredients in grocery products. Does that jerky have soy in it, or do those potato chips actually contain dairy? One startup is trying to make grocery shopping more transparent and personalized. Tastermonial is a new…
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Plant Jammer, TrusTrace, and six other food tech startups have been selected to join the 2020 cohort of Stockholm, Sweden-based accelerator program Bloomer. The program is new, and a joint effort from supermarket chain Coop Sweden, startup investor Norrsken, and Sweden FoodTech. Like other food tech accelerators, much of the emphasis of the program will…
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I’ve been on a diet since the beginning of the year. It’s nothing crazy, just trying to cut out a lot of sugar and carbs. This involves more time at the grocery store because I have to read the label and inspect the nutrition facts on every item before I buy it. So I was…
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With Customize, The Spoon’s daylong NYC summit, just around the corner, we’re talking all things food personalization these days. And with personalization comes personal data, which you, me, and a growing number of consumers endlessly hand over these days to CPGs, grocery services, nutritionists, and, of course, restaurants. I was reminded of the data portion…
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A few weeks ago I rubbed my cheek with a swab, slipped it a vial of liquid, and sent my DNA off to be tested. This was part of a service from GenoPalate, a startup that uses information gleaned from DNA to create personalized nutrition plans for users. Having never done any sort of DNA…
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