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This Culinary Tech Inventor Thought He Could Build Some Parts For His Latest Gadget in the US. Then He Called Around.
July 14, 2025 Michael Wolf

July 9, 2025

Thermomix Has Long Been a Leader in Cooking Automation, But Now They’re Going Full Robot

July 3, 2025

Is IFT’s Launch of an AI Tool For Food Scientists an Indicator of Where Trade Associations Are Going in Age of AI?

July 1, 2025

From Red Bull to Zevia, Amy Taylor Shares Lessons Learned From a Career Built Around Buzzy Beverages

February 1, 2025

A Conversation With Bear Robotics’ John Ha on LG Deal and The Future of The Company

Dispatches from Future Food Tech 2025: After the Alt-Protein Boom, a New Realism Takes Hold

March 20, 2025 Michael Wolf

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Last week, I headed down to San Francisco to check out the Future Food Tech conference, one of the leading gatherings in food innovation, where investors, startups, and big food […]

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Less Robots, More Meat: Chipotle Founder’s Big Pivot

March 19, 2025 Michael Wolf

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Just over a year ago, Steve Ells, the founder of Chipotle, opened Kernel in New York City—a vegan restaurant concept featuring a large robotic arm in the kitchen to assist […]

Smart Tea Infuser Teforia Comes Back From the Dead Seven Years After Shutting Down

March 18, 2025 Michael Wolf

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When it comes to zombies, you never know when they’ll spring back to life. As we learned this past month, the same goes for zombie products. Teforia, the eponymous smart […]

Matias Muchnick Reflects on Being Ten Years Early to the Food AI Party

March 18, 2025 Michael Wolf

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Back in 2015, when Mattias Muchnick was contemplating the vision for his new company, he imagined building an AI-powered engine that would help big FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) brands bring […]

Marine Biologics Debuts SuperCrudes, the ‘World’s First Programmable Biomass’

March 12, 2025 Michael Wolf

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This week at Future Food Tech, Marine Biologics will showcase its technology—a platform that digitally maps the biochemistry of seaweed and its properties – which the company claims has created […]

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AI-Powered CPG Trend Forecaster AI Palette Gets Gobbled Up

March 12, 2025 Michael Wolf

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AI Palette, a company that uses AI to help CPG brands anticipate consumer tastes ahead of market trends and better predict new product success throughout their lifecycle, announced today it […]

RFK Jr. Deals Blow to Future Food Startups With Push to Have FDA Drop Self-Affirmed GRAS Provision

March 11, 2025 Michael Wolf

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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to eliminate the “self-affirmed” Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) provision, aiming […]

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McDonald’s is Creating Virtual ‘AI Managers’ for Its Restaurants

March 6, 2025 Michael Wolf

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Want some AI with your Big Mac? McDonald’s is about to serve it up in a big way. According to a story in the Wall Street Journal today, McDonald’s is […]

Pet Food Snapshot: Innovation, Cultivation, and a Ruff Patch

March 5, 2025 Michael Wolf

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Whenever I head to the pet food store, I’m simultaneously overwhelmed by the sheer amount of choice available on the shelves and disappointed by the limited selection of alternatives that […]

The 5 Questions Big Green Egg’s New CEO Asked 86 Employees When He Took The Job

March 5, 2025 Michael Wolf

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How does an outsider step into leading a company that has only had two previous CEOs over its half-century existence? For Dan Gertsacov, who became CEO of Big Green Egg […]

Join Us Today as We Explore Future Scenarios of an AI-Powered Food System

February 27, 2025 Michael Wolf

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Ever think about all the different scenarios that AI could ultimately unleash on our food system? Us too, so we decided to invite noted food futurist Mike Lee to talk […]

Trump, RFK Jr., and the FDA Overhaul: A Food Truths Deep Dive with Helena Bottemiller Evich

February 24, 2025 Michael Wolf

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In a recent episode of the Food Truths podcast, host Eric Schulze sat down with Helena Bottemiller Evich, longtime food policy and food system journalist, to discuss the changes taking […]

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