ALDI Will Shift to Sustainable Packaging by 2025
Grocery retailer ALDI announced this morning its plans to transition to more sustainable packaging for all its products. According to a press release, by 2025, the company plans to make […]
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Is Sweetgreen Looking to Roboticize Its Restaurants?
Last fall, fast-casual darling Sweetgreen became a newly minted unicorn when it raised $200 million at over a $1 billion valuation. At the time, the company’s CEO talked about leveraging […]
FDA Makes First Step Towards Regulating CBD-Infused Food and Drink
You just got one step closer to being able to legally purchase CBD-infused chocolates, sugar, beer and more. Today the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) released a statement announcing a new action plan […]
Walmart Tries to Challenge Amazon’s Grocery Supremacy through Voice Ordering
I’m not one to get excited about sporting rivalries, but I do get excited about grocery rivalries. And Amazon V. Walmart is shaking out to be the matchup of the decade. Today […]
Steeped’s Single-Serve Coffee Bags Deliver Instant High-End Brew Without the Environmental Waste
As someone who often makes a cup of instant coffee out of sheer busyness laziness, this news piqued my interest: Steeped, a Santa Cruz, CA-based startup, has launched a coffee […]
ezCater Raises $150M to Expand Global Catering Marketplace
Today, online catering marketplace ezCater announced it’s closed a $150 million Series D-1 round, co-led by Lightspeed VenturePartners and GIC. This comes nine months after ezCater raised a $100 million […]
Video: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Visits Singapore to Talk AI With Inventors of the Rotimatic
Back when I worked at Gigaom, every year we’d invite Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on stage at our big cloud computing conference and interview him about the future of the […]
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For Cultured Meat, Scaffolding is the Next Big Hurdle. Could LEGOs Hold the Answer?
As of now, cultured meat comes out looking one way: like mush. That’s because scientists have figured out ways to replicate animal muscle, fat, and tissue cells, but not how […]
Welcome to the Era of Cooking Convergence (aka Why Sous Vide is Going the Way of DVR)
It may be hard to remember in a world with Hulu, Netflix, and Apple TV Apple TV+, but back in the early 2000s one of the coolest new technologies was […]
Impossible Foods Makes Next Big Fast Food Move with Burger King
At Burger King, having it “your way” could soon mean making that whopper 100 percent meat-free. Starting today, the fast food chain will offer a Whopper made with plant-based “bleeding” patties […]
We Might Be Only 5 Years Away from Hangover-Free Booze
For anyone who’s experienced the vision-blurring head pain after a night of heavy drinking, we have an important announcement: A scientist in London has created a synthetic version of alcohol that […]
Food Tech News: Vegan Powdered Eggs, More Vertically-Grown Lettuce & India’s Red Hot Cloud Kitchen Market
Happy weekend from sunny Victoria, Canada! I took the ferry from Seattle for a quick weekend of high tea, touring gardens and whatever else one does in the capital of British […]