From greenqueen.com.hk
By Anay Mridul
Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Oatly’s new matcha latte, Revo Foods’s clean-label mince, and Lactalis Canada’s plant-based exit.
New products and launches
Swedish oat milk giant Oatly is the latest to join the matcha craze, launching a ready-to-drink matcha latte with finely ground Tencha matcha. The one-litre packs are available in the UK for £2.95 at Sainsbury’s and Morrisons, with Ocado adding to the list next month.
Californian firm Mud\Wtr has introduced Nourish, a protein powder with 25g of complete plant protein per serving, along with lion’s mane, cordyceps, ashwagandha, Bacopa and prebiotic fibre. It’s available in chocolate and vanilla flavours on its website for $70 per 645g bag.
Also in the US, plant-based waffle brand Vafels has rolled out gluten-free stroopwafels in caramel and maple flavours, which can be found on its website for €19.95 per 10-pack.
Austrian 3D-printed meat maker Revo Foods has launched a four-ingredient Minced Fungi Protein with more protein than beef and higher bioavailability than chicken. Made from mycoprotein, rapeseed oil, rapeseed protein and spices, each 160g pack contains 25g of protein. The product is available at Billa Pflanzilla, online on its webstore and Billa’s website, and Kokku in Germany.
UK food manufacturer Premier Foods has unveiled a four-strong line-up of vegan jelly with no added sugar under its McDougalls brand. They come in 1.4kg packs (enough to make 17 litres of jelly), with flavours including strawberry, raspberry, orange, and lime.
France’s Vétéjal has created a range of powdered seasonings for plant-based creams, sauces, marinades and grilled meals, which can be mixed with water, oil, milk and cream or sprinkled on top of dishes. Flavour options include cream of mushroom soup, king crab, spicy bacon, and Roquefort-style blue cheese.
Dutch specialty ingredient supplier Prodalim has launched upcycled VivaPro Colouring Foodstuffs and NaturaPro Natural Colours lines to tackle the growing demand for clean-label and sustainable plant-based colour solutions.
And Japanese conglomerate Ajinomoto‘s Atlr.72 Flowering Ice Cream, which uses Finnish gas fermentation firm Solar Foods‘s Solein protein, is available at food trucks at the World Aquatics Championships (July 18 to August 3) in Singapore.
Company and finance updates
English football club Forest Green Rovers have launched a fully vegan football kit for the next two seasons (as part of its efforts to cut waste), featuring Reflo’s Reloop technology (which offers a fibre-to-fibre mechanical recycling solution).
UK vegan pet food company Omni – which made a splash with its success on Dragons’ Den this year – has been certified as a B Corp.
Speaking of certifications, Beyond Meat‘s burger, beef mince, steaks, chicken pieces, and sausages have now been accredited as Glyphosate Residue Free.
New York-based Helaina has expanded the manufacturing capacity of Effera, its precision-fermented human lactoferrin, to a metric-tonne scale, which would allow it to produce 10 million servings per production run.
Planetarians, a US-based producer of upcycled plant-based meat, is shutting down and auctioning its IP and assets, citing fundraising challenges.
Lactalis Canada, a subsidiary of the world’s largest dairy company, is closing its Sudbury plant and exiting the plant-based milk business this December. It comes just a year after the facility was turned into a vegan hub and the business introduced the Enjoy brand of dairy-free milk.
Nurasa, the sustainable food innovation platform owned by Singapore’s Temasek, has signed a strategic partnership with Protein Industries Canada to fast-track the entry of Canadian plant-based companies into the city-state and Asia-Pacific through technical, regulatory, and commercialisation support.
Policy developments
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has pledged C$750,000 in a C$1.9M project to develop a vegan whitefish fillet, working with Profillet, Ardra Inc, Mara Renewables, and Rondo North America.
Weeks after criticising the FDA for its “outdated” regulation of dairy-free baby formula, Israel’s Else Nutrition has applauded the US House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations’s passage of bills that recognise the importance of expanding access to alternative infant formulas.
US non-profit People For Better Food has launched its first “culture shift” campaign, Plants for the Win, to shift young men’s perceptions about protein myths and plant-rich diets.
French carmaker Renault has pledged to eliminate animal leather from its entire portfolio by the end of the year.
In Spain, Alcorcón has become the third city in eight weeks to endorse the Plant Based Treaty, following in the footsteps of Parla, El Masnou and 40 other cities globally.
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