Daily news and analysis about the food tech revolution
Odds are, when you’re eating a handful sour cream & onion chips or french fries, you aren’t thinking about the mountain of potato peels that went to waste to produce […]
Tyson’s brand of snacks made from rescued food ingredients, ¡Yappah!, is shutting down less than a year after it was announced. ¡Yappah!’s first product was a line of crispy snack […]
It’s August, so naturally it’s time to start thinking about the SXSW Festival in March of next year. No, really, you actually should; the conference is running its “Panel Picker” […]
Plenty of efforts are underway right now to create a more sustainable restaurant industry, from proposed plastic cutlery bans to companies curbing food waste to drinking straws made of hay. […]
Food tech is a global industry/phenomenon. In every corner of the world, big companies, small startups and individual inventors are working to innovate and improve the way we get our […]
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This week Planetarians, the San Mateo-based upcycled ingredient startup, announced that it had closed a $750,000 seed round with participation from Barilla’s venture/innovation arm BLU1877, Techstars, The Yield Lab, SOSV, […]
Brewing beer generates a lot of leftover organic waste via spent grains. But now researchers in Denmark have turned the tables and found a way to turn sushi rice that […]
Here are three more innovative accelerators looking for companies that want to disrupt the food world.
When we come across a problem that seems insurmountable, it’s easy to hold up technology as a cure-all. That seems to be the case with food waste. Recently Eater published […]
Upcycling company Regrained is learning that doing the right thing is seldom the same as doing the easy thing, especially when it comes to tackling food waste. The company’s mission is to […]
Brooklyn-based Cocoburg announced yesterday it has closed a private funding round of roughly $500,000 for its coconut jerky brand. The round was led by Noroc Naturals and follows two small […]
