Category: Foodtech
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As the world awaits the arrival of cultured meat, manufacturers and their suppliers strategize to cope with the realities of this potentially mammoth market. Infrastructure and product scaling for growth remain a challenge from the supply side. Still, concerns over the pricing of lab-grown meat, poultry, and seafood might be the most significant roadblock to…
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What a difference a year can make. Last year, it seemed a day didn’t go by without word of a big new funding round in food tech. Alt proteins, restaurant tech, food robotics, food waste, and other sectors benefited from the combination of low-cost capital and a newfound urgency among investors to reinvent our antiquated…
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Everything is getting more expensive lately, and food is near the top of the list. For those of you who work outside of the home (and don’t have free and tasty food as a work perk), you’re probably trying to figure out how to fight the suddenly very real problem of lunchflation. The easiest and…
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This is the online version of The Spoon Weekly newsletter. Subscribe here to get in your inbox. Electrolux Launches GRO, a Kitchen System Designed to Encourage More Sustainable Eating Can a kitchen’s design help us eat more sustainable, plant-forward diets? Swedish appliance manufacturer Electrolux thinks the answer is yes and, to that end, has launched an ambitious…
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Sea & Believe is a little different than the typical IndieBio company in that they already have a successful product on the market. The Ireland-based company sells two alt-fish products, an Irish seaweed burger and seaweed goujons, and today they are available in 50 stores across Ireland. But as the company showed last week at…
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Picture this: It’s late 2023, or perhaps 2024. Renowned Austin pitmaster and entrepreneur Aaron Franklin finishes up tending to his smokers after a long night of preparing to feed the onslaught of barbeque fans. Those queued up along Branch Street in East Austin are in for a surprise; that day, instead of the usual prime…
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Changing eating habits and preferences, accelerated by a pandemic, demand different product designs and SKUs. Start-up food companies are increasing their market share with innovative new products. Added up, all of this continual competition in the food space is causing pressure for brands of all sizes for the rapid iteration of food products and their…
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Last week, Snapchat became the latest company to add an AI-powered food scanning and recognition feature to their product. Called Food Scan, the new feature enables Snapchat users to scan food items and get recipe suggestions and other information about the food. Here’s how it works: Snapchat users can scan food by opening up the…
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Ingredients startup Nuritas announced earlier this month that it has completed a $45 million Series B round. The new funding will help the company to expand globally and scale its tech platform for peptide discovery. Like proteins, peptides are made up of amino acids. But while proteins consist of long chains of amino acids, peptides…
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Chinese researchers invented a material that changes color to measure how fresh seafood is, inspired by (you guessed it) chameleons.
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Most of today’s vegan cheese startups face the challenge of reproducing cheese using ingredients like plant-based oils and nut milks. That’s no easy feat, as unique dairy proteins are responsible for some of the taste, stretch, and melt properties of cheese. But alternative cheese may soon be getting a tech upgrade. A handful of startups…
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Honey is a$7 billion industry. While honeybees themselves are not in danger (at least today), the focus on honey production is problematic for the broader bee ecosystem since farmed honeybees compete with wild bees for food and ultimately hurt biodiversity. All of this is why a Serbian bee industry executive named Darko Mandich became fascinated with the…
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