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The Growing Appetite for Meat Alternatives in China

AFN Sustainable Protein

China’s declaration is not only significant in the global fight against climate change, it also speaks to the government’s commitment to curtail a looming health crisis. China now leads the world in obese children, and the World Health Organization has reported that one in three diabetes diagnoses is in China.

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The Growing Appetite for Meat Alternatives in China

AFN Sustainable Protein

China’s declaration is not only significant in the global fight against climate change, it also speaks to the government’s commitment to curtail a looming health crisis. China now leads the world in obese children, and the World Health Organization has reported that one in three diabetes diagnoses is in China.

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Innovative Food: Startups Raise $206m to Meet Consumer Demand for Protein & Novel Ingredients

AFN Sustainable Protein

Answering other consumer demands for nutritional value and health foods, other startups in the innovative food category are manufacturing novel ingredients such as algae, novel supplements with custom nutritional profiles for women and children, and replacements for unhealthy and less popular ingredients such as sugar. Novel ingredients.

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Innovative Food: Startups Raise $206m to Meet Consumer Demand for Protein & Novel Ingredients

AFN Sustainable Protein

Answering other consumer demands for nutritional value and health foods, other startups in the innovative food category are manufacturing novel ingredients such as algae, novel supplements with custom nutritional profiles for women and children, and replacements for unhealthy and less popular ingredients such as sugar. Novel ingredients.

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Plant-based foods are booming, but we need sustainable meat, too.

EDF + Business

In fact, dollar sales of plant-based products are growing double digits across the country, and you can now find meat alternatives in Burger King, White Castle and Carl’s Jr, among other chains. For the vast majority of consumers, increasing plant-based protein consumption is not about the rejection of traditional animal protein.

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Plant-based foods are booming, but we need sustainable meat, too.

EDF + Business

In fact, dollar sales of plant-based products are growing double digits across the country, and you can now find meat alternatives in Burger King, White Castle and Carl’s Jr, among other chains. For the vast majority of consumers, increasing plant-based protein consumption is not about the rejection of traditional animal protein.

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A plant-based recovery? The Vegetarian Butcher's Hugo Verkuil on shifting diets during a pandemic

Business Green

The plant-based meat and dairy market is expected to balloon over the years to come, as consumers increasingly seek to reduce the environmental impact of their diet while tapping the health benefits related to reducing meat consumption.