Prime Roots Makes Super Protein Building Blocks (and Bacon) from Mushroom Roots
If you’re biting into any sort of plant-based meat these days, odds are its main ingredient is soy, peas, or wheat. But that might not be the case for long […]
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Ecovative’s Mushroom Foam Could Solve Alternative Meat’s Texture Problem
When you bite into a juicy piece of steak — or any meat — a big part of the tasting experience is texture. It’s one of meat’s most defining characteristics, […]
Food Tech News: Magical Mushrooms and the Indian Cottage Food Business
It’s almost the holidays, and what better way to kick off this festive weekend than with a dose of food tech news? We’ve rounded up a few of our favorite […]
Food Tech News Roundup: Mushrooms, Corporate Catering, and Delivery Fee Wars
You head to the Spoon every week for the big, juicy food tech stories — ones that cover behind the scenes visits to the Beyond Meat headquarters, fundraises for robot […]
Waring and Planit Protein Debut Fermentation Appliance for Chefs to Create Plant-Based Proteins
This week at the National Restaurant Show, commercial equipment provider Waring and Planit Protein debuted a new commercial fermentation system to create plant-based proteins in commercial kitchens. The new system, […]
The Weekly Spoon: Sugar Alternatives Are the New Sweetness for Food Tech
Here in America, we like the sweet stuff. Whether it’s sodas, candies, or ice cream, we consume more added sugar than any other country. Not surprisingly, all this sugar consumption can […]
Finalists for NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge Include Astronaut Oven & Air Protein Technology
Last week, NASA announced the finalists for the final phase of the Deep Space Food Challenge, a competition designed to help explore and better understand how these agencies can feed […]
Make Alcohol From an Astronaut’s Breath? Yep. Here Are the Finalists For Phase 2 of the Deep Space Food Challenge
This week, NASA’s ability to keep astronauts fat and happy on a mission to Mars took another giant leap forward for mankind. That’s because the U.S. space agency, in partnership […]
The Spoon Food Tech Weekly: About That Bloomberg Article
This is the online version of The Spoon’s Food Tech Weekly newsletter. To get it in your inbox, just sign up here. Someday, We’ll Look Back and Laugh If you’re […]
Meati Opens Up ‘Mega Ranch’ Production Facility, Plans to Produce “Tens of Millions of Pounds” of Fungi-Based Meat
Meati Foods, a producer of plant-based whole-food protein made from mycelium, announced the opening of its largest-yet production facility in Thornton, Colorado. The 100 thousand foot facility, dubbed the “Mega […]
The Moldmentum Continues: Fungi Protein Gets a Trade Group
If there was an alt-protein prediction that was easy to make for 2022, it was that fungi-powered protein would have a good year. All the signs were there: Interesting new […]
Come With Me as I Walk Around a CPG Farmers Market in the Metaverse
Last night I walked around a farmers market. I spent about an hour walking from stand to stand, having conversations, and learning about new CPG products. Someone even offered me […]
