Are Beyond Meat’s Flagging Sales a Sign Big Cattle’s Negative Messaging is Working?
This week, Beyond Meat had some lousy news for Wall Street: US sales were down 13.9% year over year. According to the company, the culprit for the sales drop was […]
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Bond Pet Food Teams Up With Hill’s To Make Meat Protein for Pets Using Precision Fermentation
Bond Pet Food, an alternative protein company for pet food, and Hill’s Pet Nutrition, a biology-based pet food company, announced this week that they have partnered to develop an alternative […]
Mezli, a Maker of Robot Restaurants, Wins the Smart Kitchen Summit 2021 Startup Showcase
Mezli, a maker of robotized container restaurants, has won the 2021 Smart Kitchen Summit Startup Showcase. The company, which currently operates a prototype restaurant in San Mateo’s KitchenTown, was started […]
COP26 Spotlight: Eagle Genomics and the New Frontier of Microbiome Data
The microbiome is the collective genetic material of all the microorganisms that inhabit an environment, like the human gut or a particular soil. Eagle Genomics, an England-based company, is developing […]
Animal-Free ClearEgg Debuts in Protein Smoothie
Last month, The Every Company rebranded from Clara Foods and announced the launch of its animal-free egg protein product. Now, the company’s egg protein, called ClearEgg is being used as […]
Brave Robot Launches “Climate Hero” Cake Mix Made With Animal-Free Whey Protein
The Spoon has been following Brave Robot’s animal-free ice cream journey since The Urgent Company launched the dessert brand last year. Since then, the company has introduced ice creams in […]
Researchers Use Bacteria To Transform Plastic Into Edible Protein
In 2018, the equivalent of about 3.5 million dumpster trucks’ worth of plastic waste was produced in the U.S. alone, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The COVID-19 pandemic has […]
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Watch This Video of Innerplant’s Glowing Plants in Action
InnerPlant is an agtech company that engineers plant DNA to turn them into “living sensors”. When plants glow a certain color, this signals that it is stressed from lack of […]
What Does a Cultivated Meat Plant Look Like? Take a Video Tour of UPSIDE Foods’ New Production Facility to Find Out
According to the Good Food Institute, there are approximately 70+ companies working on cultivated meat services, inputs, and end products. At this time, Singapore has been the only country to […]
SKS 2021: Meet Ottonomy, Maker of Autonomous Food Delivery Robots
Time to meet Ottonomy, one of the ten startups pitching tomorrow at Smart Kitchen Summit! Ottonomy is a maker of autonomous delivery robots. Unlike most other sidewalk delivery bots, Ottonomy […]
Noka’s Smart Shopping Baskets Lets Customers Walk Out Without Going Through the Check-Out Line
According to Omnico’s US Retail Report, 74 percent of consumers believe technology will make shopping easier and remove sources of annoyance, like long lines at the register. A start-up called […]
FloWaste Raises a $1.1M Pre-Seed Round To Reduce Food Waste With Machine Learning
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, more than 85% of greenhouse gas emissions from landfilled food waste can be attributed to missteps that occur before the food ever reaches a […]