Some Say Lab-Grown Insects Are the Food of the Future. But Will People Eat Them?
Over half of U.S. consumers say that they would not eat food made with cricket flour. Only a third of diners in the U.S. and U.K. would take a taste […]
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Future Food: Beyond Impossible, Investment is Heating Up Throughout the Alt-Protein Space
This is the web version of our weekly Future Food newsletter. In it we cover the alternative protein landscape, from plant-based meat to cellular agriculture to insects. Subscribe here! Who’s investing […]
Hybrid VC Firm Big Idea Ventures Wants to Scale the Alternative Protein Revolution
We hear a lot about plant-based startups raking in big funding dollars — cough, Impossible Foods, cough — but not a lot about the companies investing in them. One such […]
Aleph Farms Raises $12M for its Slaughter-Free Steak
Though plant-based meat has grabbed most of the headlines in alternative protein this year, thanks to Beyond Meat going public and Impossible Foods scaling up, lab-grown or cultured meat is […]
Introducing Future Food: Our Alternative Protein Newsletter
Have you checked what’s in your hamburger recently? It might be plant-based, made with “bloody” heme, or even grown in a bioreactor. (Just kidding — that last one isn’t here […]
The Spoon Weekly: Sweetgreen Robots; Single-serve Coffee Gets Eco-Friendly; Hangover-free Booze
This is the post version of our weekly newsletter. If you’d like to get the weekly Spoon in your inbox, you can subscribe here. Can a Humble Bag of Coffee Challenge the […]
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 […]
Newsletter: Nigella Lawson’s Instagram Competitor and the Coolest Foodtech Startups at Y Combinator
This is the post version of our weekly newsletter. If you’d like to get the Weekly Spoon in your inbox, you can subscribe here. If you’re a food tech polymath — interested […]
These 10 Food Tech Startups from Y Combinator’s Latest Cohort are Ones to Watch
If you want a hint about what cool new startups and innovations are coming around the corner, look to Y Combinator. Twice a year, the accelerator, which has helped launch […]
FDA Chief Scott “An Almond Doesn’t Lactate” Gottlieb Resigns
Scott Gottlieb, the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and better known around The Spoon as the guy who brought the debate over what to label “meat” and “milk” […]
“High” Tech: CBD Can Be Made with Genetically Engineered Microbes (AKA Yeast)
When you think of what yeast can do, your mind probably goes to bread or beer. But in a paper published today in Nature, scientists from UC Berkeley announced that they had […]
