Across the food and beverage industry, ingredient companies that provide premium, natural, and clean-label products are experiencing substantial growth. This is being driven by chefs, retailers, and consumers that continue to demand higher-quality, fresher, and better-for-you items. In this article, senior professionals in Harris Williams’s Consumer Group [1] – Tim Alexander, Brant Cash, Ryan Freeman […]
Researchers develop cells that produce their own growth factors to significantly lower cost of cultivating meat
In a series of articles for Food Engineering & Ingredients, Athanasios Garoufas will look at alternative proteins and the various technologies that enable the development and production of meat alternatives. Alt proteins include plant-based protein products, cellular agriculture (cultivated meat), mycoproteins, insect proteins and precision fermentation. In this article, the author looks at the difficulty […]
Also announced at the COP28 session was the mobilization of more than US$2.5 billion in funding to support food security while combatting climate change and a new partnership between the UAE and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for food systems innovation in the face of climate change.
Global commitment to climate-smart agriculture puts food systems at centre of climate action
The importance of sustainable brewing
Israel-based FoodTech start-up BioBetter has opened its first food-grade pilot facility to accelerate the production of key growth factors for the cultivated meat industry. The company has pioneered a unique protein manufacturing platform for producing growth factors (GFs) using tobacco plants as self-sustained, animal-free bioreactors.
Many fungus strains have been used and selected by the food industry for their capacities to ferment, produce flavours or produce heterologous molecules.
MycoTechnology announced in late November that is has appointed Michael Leonard as its new chief executive officer. Simultaneously, Alan Hahn, the esteemed co-founder and former CEO, will take on the pivotal role of executive chairman, marking a new chapter in the company’s continued growth and global expansion.
United States-based MycoTechnology is using mushroom mycelia to create proteins and flavours for the food industry through proprietary technology in an effort to help resolve some of the key challenges facing global food production. Ranjan Patnaik, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer at MycoTechnology, discusses the benefits of mycelia and the fungi-based products the company produces.
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