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 Waitrose’s mushroom wellington, Offbeast’s plant-based ribs, and Typcal’s new mycelium factory.
New products and launches
British supermarket Waitrose has partnered with Australian mushroom innovator Fable Food Co to launch a Christmas Mushroom Wellington featuring chestnut, portobello and the latter’s pulled shiitake mushrooms in a Malbec and port sauce. It’s available for £8.50 and serves two to four.
Also in the UK, Richmond has become the latest company to promote meat-free eating through vegetables, having introduced a new range called Veggie Tasty. The first product is a vegan sausage with 42% vegetables (like broccoli, carrot, sweetcorn, and peas), which is rolling out in eight-packs this month.
Across the Atlantic, US food tech start-up Offbeast will launch plant-based ribs on Boxing Day (December 26), with ‘bones’ made from lemongrass. They will be available on the company’s e-commerce store.
And Impossible Foods has kicked off an online QVC-style content series to help buy presents for people who are hard to please. It features gift kits with an array of products, including meatballs, steak bites, corn dogs, chicken tenders and nuggets, and sausages, with a phone number to order the gifts and one free giveaway.
Company and finance updates
Bloom Plant Based Kitchen, named one of Chicago’s best vegan restaurants by TimeOut, has announced its closure. Its final day of operations will be February 21, 2026.
After raising R$10M ($1.8M) in fresh funding, Brazilian food tech start-up Typcal has opened a large-scale fermentation plant in Pinhais to produce mycelium ingredients for the food industry.
Following last month’s layoffs, the power at mycelium protein maker Meati Foods‘s fermentation plant in Thornton, Colorado has been shut off, with the remaining employees evicted after the building was deemed unsafe.
In more fermentation-related news, the IP dispute between animal-free egg firms The Every Company and Onego Bio has ramped up, with the two companies trading accusations of harassment and false advertising, respectively.
Policy, research and events
Birmingham’s Edgbaston Cricket Ground will host the UK’s largest free vegan festival, Vegfest Free, on April 25, 2026, with up to 170 stalls and more than 30 speakers.
In a new study, researchers from Germany suggest that feeding the by-products of carrot cultivation to fungi to produce proteins can deliver better-tasting meat alternatives than conventional plant-based options.
The Singapore International Agri-Food Week has announced that it is winding down the Agri-Food Tech Expo Asia event, following a strategic review.
Finally, Vegan Outreach and Abillion have unveiled the winners of the Singapore Vegan Chef Challenge, with Japanese restaurants Veg-An, Goro Japanese Cuisine and Menya Kokoro winning the first, second and third places in the Diners’ Favourite category.
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