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 […]

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 […]

Global commitment to climate-smart agriculture puts food systems at centre of climate action

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.