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The Growing Appetite for Meat Alternatives in China

AFN Sustainable Protein

Editor’s Note: Bits x Bites is China’s first accelerator VC to invest in early-stage food tech startups. Here the Bits x Bites team breaks down key trends and milestone announcements that have been happening in China—the world’s biggest market for meat. . So what is the state of play in China’s diet transition?

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The Growing Appetite for Meat Alternatives in China

AFN Sustainable Protein

Editor’s Note: Bits x Bites is China’s first accelerator VC to invest in early-stage food tech startups. Here the Bits x Bites team breaks down key trends and milestone announcements that have been happening in China—the world’s biggest market for meat. . So what is the state of play in China’s diet transition?

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Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation and Greentown Labs Announce the KAITEKI Challenge Startup Participants

Greentown Labs

May 18, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) have selected six startups for the KAITEKI Challenge that are innovating in the areas of alternative proteins, plastics, and packaging. Somerville, Mass.,

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

The startup space is buoyant with cash and targeting a blend of retail, direct-to-consumer and food service channels, playing with ingredients such as kelp, koji and mung beans. Overall, businesses creating all sorts of meat alternatives raised $3.1 Alternative meat, dairy and egg products make up more than half of that, at $2.1

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This volcanic microbe startup is taking on Beyond Meat and Impossible in plant-based race

AFN Sustainable Protein

For now, the products that the Chicago-based biotech startup plans to launch are a complete secret. After a trip to Yellowstone, SBP observed how certain extremophile organisms can survive in the National Park’s volcanic streams sparking a quest to create edible proteins with nutritional value from these hearty microbes.

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Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet

GreenBiz

From a food security perspective, farmers can harness soil organic matter to ensure greater productivity of their fields and reduce erosion and improve soil structure, which leads to improved water quality in groundwater and surface waters. Investment in startups operating upstream, or closer to the farmer, increased 1.3

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Impossible Foods makes retail debut as Tim Hortons pulls Beyond Meat

AFN Sustainable Protein

Mackey’s former partner Walter Robb told our editor Louisa he was also skeptical about processed meat alternatives on her podcast Future Food earlier this year.). Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger boasts 18 ingredients while the Impossible Burger packs 21, including a GMO derived yeast called heme as the main ingredient.

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