Latest Natural Food Preservation Techniques without Refrigeration!
The rapidly changing market standards and consumers’ demand for nutrition and flavor-rich fresh food have pushed companies to preserve food products without reducing quality. Refrigeration can often ruin the texture and reduce the food’s nutritional value; traditional preservation methods like salting or smoking the food won’t do the trick either, as they often compromise flavor. […]
How Precision Fermentation Companies are Changing the Dairy Industry
Due to its versatility and variety of tastes, the global demand for cheese is astoundingly high. However, manufacturing cheeses the traditional way remains far from being sustainable. NRDC listed cheese among the top foods contributing to the increase in emissions between 2005 and 2014. In addition to ecological concerns, cheese production puts tremendous strain on […]
Plant or fermentation-based dairy: Which approach solves consumer demands better?
Dairy is responsible for 2.9 percent of total human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, one liter of milk requires 628 liters of water, surpassing the water footprint of all the other foods and making it the largest water polluter. Such numbers have spurred the R&D efforts to find environmentally friendly, sustainable dairy alternatives that appeal to the […]
4 Plant-based innovations that make dairy-free products consumer acceptable
Even as customers’ demand for dairy-free products grows, sales of most plant-based products have sharply declined over the past year. One of the primary reasons consumers reject plant-based foods is that their taste is too different from what they’re used to. Source: https://www.fmi.org As a result, innovating in this space has become more like a […]
Seven 3D Food Printing Startups Disrupting the Food Industry
In March this year, a group of engineers successfully made a delectable cheesecake from scratch on a 3D printer. Until now, most 3D food printing was only possible for uncooked products. Columbia Engineering’s research, on the other hand, used lasers to cook the cheesecake as it prints. (Source) As the world becomes increasingly fascinated by […]
Alternative Protein Industry and Where Is It Headed?
Over the years, consumers have realized the importance of protein intake. The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for protein is a modest 0.8 grams per kilogram of your body weight. But with the recent environmental disturbances, it’s not that simple anymore. Consumers today, demand non-meat based protein in their food products. And thus, the food industry […]
The Untapped Market of Enzymes in Food Technology
According to a study, about 65% of the population has reduced lactose digestion. This means a majority of people cannot consume most dairy products. However, it’s also true that a major subset of this population would love to consume alternatives that taste like dairy, albeit without the consequences. This signifies there’s a huge untapped market with […]
10 Alt Protein Startups taking Sustainability quite seriously
The global market for alt-protein is expected to exceed $155 billion by 2027. Environmental concerns and animal welfare are some reasons for consumers’ growing awareness of alternative proteins (alt-proteins). It seems that the food industry is taking sustainability quite seriously. Hence, to cater to consumer demands for alt-protein, food startups are trying their best to […]
Lab Grown Meat to Outgrow Plant Meat by 2040
According to the World Economic Forum, by 2040 Cultured Meat and Conventional Meat will be almost neck to neck with conventional meat catering to 40% of the demand and cultured meat to nearly 35%. Even though plant-based meat has established a market for itself, how is it possible to claim that cultured meat will outgrow […]
FBS Alternatives: An Ethical Win for “Cruelty-Free” Lab-Grown Meat
In the face of a meat-hungry world, lab-grown meat has gained popularity as an alternative to the cruelty of factory farming. But “cruelty-free” is a big claim; as it turns out, the reality is slightly different. Many lab-grown meat products contain a shocking amount of blood. More specifically, they often rely on Fetal Bovine Serum […]