The Spoon Weekly: Tobacco Plant Bioreactors, Roboburgers & Starbucks NFTs
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UNC Launches Cellular Agriculture Course to Prepare Students For the Cultivated Protein Revolution
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill may have lost to Kansas in the NCAA men’s basketball final last night, but Tar Heels everywhere can take small comfort in […]
BioBetter is Turning Tobacco Plants into Bioreactors to Drive Down the Cost of Cultivated Meat Growth Media
Food tech startup BioBetter has developed a novel way to create growth factors for cell-cultivated meat utilizing tobacco plants. Based in Kiryat Shemona, Israel, the company announced today that it […]
How New Culture and Moolec Science Are Growing Cow-Free Dairy Proteins
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 […]
Could Biden Become The Food Tech President? Here’s 6 Ideas to Help Make That Happen
We all know about the Green New Deal, but what about a Grand New Meal powered by government-catalyzed food innovation? With a more science-forward administration on its way in and […]
Are Cultivated Meat Forecasts Accurately Modeling In Misinformation Risk?
Last week, GFI published their annual state of the industry reports for the three major alt-protein technology ‘pillars’, plant-based meat, fermentation, and cultivated meat (and teased a fourth one). Like […]
Where to See Food Tech on the Show Floor @ CES 2022: Day 1
From mushroom tech to smart food lockers to a fresh food life extension device, food tech innovation shows up in a big way on Day 1 at the first hybrid digital and in-person event since the start of the pandemic. Follow @TheSpoonTech for news and updates.
A Cuppa Joe Grown in a Lab? That’s Right, Cell-Cultured Coffee Is Now a Reality
Cellular agriculture has given us hope about the future of sustainable meat production, but what about coffee? After all, many of us (this author included) would happily give up that […]
Food Tech News: Subway Station Greens and Moolec’s Joint Venture
Moolec and Grupo Insud launched a joint venture Moolec, a food tech company that develops animals proteins through plants, and Grupo Insud, an ingredient manufacturer for the pharmaceutical industry, shared […]
Podcast: Arturo Elizondo on Hatching A Startup That Makes Eggs Without the Chicken
If you were to ask Clara Foods CEO Arturo Elizondo what came first, the chicken or the egg, the answer you’d get is probably not the weighty philosophical waxing you […]
Atomo Coffee has Developed Less-Bitter, Sustainable Coffee. The Secret? No Beans.
For many of us, our morning cup of coffee is the only thing that makes us functioning humans. But I’m betting that rarely (if ever) our morning fuel-up do we […]
