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Curious What’s in That Faux Sausage? You’re Not Alone: Consumers Want Greater Transparency With Alt-Protein Ingredients

The past few years have been explosive for the entire plant-based and vegan market. Particularly so for the plant-based meat sector, which was valued at $1.06 billion USD in 2020. […]

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7-Eleven & Nuro Launch California’s First Autonomous Delivery Service

7-Eleven announced today they are launching an autonomous delivery pilot program in Mountain View, California, in partnership with autonomous delivery tech startup Nuro. While the Golden State has been a […]

BentoBox Survey: Restaurants & Their Customers Embrace Direct Online Ordering

It’s clear that the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way restaurants do business. As a purveyor of online marketing and commerce solutions for the hospitality industry, New York-based company BentoBox recently […]

Tofurky and the Plant Based Foods Association Are Challenging an Oklahoma Plant-Based Labeling Law

The Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a complaint this month against an Oklahoma plant-based labeling law on behalf of Tofurky and the Plant Based Foods Association. It’s not the first […]

What The Heck is Causing The Plant-Based Meat Slowdown?

No two ways about it: Plant-based meat has hit a sales slump. According to recent data from market watcher SPINS, sales in the overall plant-based meat market dropped 1.8% year […]

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With New Funding Mustard Adds More Relish to the Food Ordering Experience

For hungry L.A. diners unable to decide between the Caliente Burger from Tommy’s in Van Nuys and Yukdaehang from a Korean restaurant in Los Angeles, Mustard may be the perfect […]

MOOLESS: The First Animal-Free Whey Protein Powder Created By Perfect Day & Natreve

Perfect Day, a company that makes animal-identical proteins using precision fermentation, and Natreve, a wellness and nutrition company, have partnered to produce MOOLESS, a protein powder made with animal-free whey […]

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The Media Was Fascinated with a TikTok Video of a Robot at Denny’s. Here’s What it Means.

Maybe it was a slow news week. Perhaps it was the sight of pancakes hitching a ride on a robot at America’s late-night diner. Whatever the reason, it seemed like […]

Hero Bread Founder Cole Glass Was “Eating Himself To Death.” So He Created This 1g Net Carb Bread.

Imagine a bread roll much like Subway’s Italian white bread: soft, fluffy, carbohydrate-dense. Now imagine if that bread had zero grams of sugar, 12 grams of protein, and only 1 […]

Wine Critic Launches Jukes Cordialities, an Alcohol-Free Wine Fit for Oenophiles

If you consider the phrase “non-alcoholic wine” for a moment, it seems that this might just be referring to a glass of unfermented grape juice. Wine is defined as an […]

The Spoon Weekly: Another Shazam for Food, Alexa Debuts New Meal-Rec-Tech

Snap The Latest to Create a ‘Shazam for Food’ Haven’t we seen this episode before? While many of us had a good laugh back when Silicon Valley’s Jian-Yang launched a Not Hot Dog app, […]

Watch Nala Robotics’ Robot Chef in Action

A restaurant that can serve millions of different dishes, is open 24/7, and doesn’t close on holidays sounds like a dream, right? After three years in the making, Nala Robotics […]