Tag: cultivated meat

Biobased Mattel toys, lion burgers & tiger tacos, biobased textiles at the Academy Awards, DOE & Bridgestone guayule rubber, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of April 7th

April 6, 2022 | Helena Tavares Kennedy

The bioeconomy is up and roaring with lion burgers and tiger tacos, but don’t worry, no animals are actually killed for the exotic meat. It’s Primeval Foods lab-grown, cultivated exotic meats that people would otherwise not get to consume. And if that’s not fun enough for you, check out Mattel’s new biobased, carbon neutral toys […]

Meat milestones, lab cultivated shrimp, Levis Strauss greener blue jeans, first-ever commercial extract from Lily of the Valley flower, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of December 23rd

December 22, 2021 | Helena Tavares Kennedy

In this week’s Top 8 Innovations, there may be a rumbly in your tummy after hearing that Dokdo shrimp was cultivated in a lab for the first time ever, Singapore regulators okayed the second cultivated meat product for human consumption, and news of Future Meat’s whopping $347 million in funding to bring lab-grown meat to […]

Pollution pods, machine learning, fermentation protein-producing microorganisms, Microsoft’s look at algae and fungi for green data centers and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of November 4th

November 3, 2021 | Helena Tavares Kennedy

Want to know what it’s like to breathe some of the world’s lowest quality air? “Pollution pods” in the UK are giving people that opportunity to draw attention to growing pollution impacts. And an alternative protein startup in California is building a pilot-scale facility for food-friendly proteins, using machine learning and fermentation to genetically engineer […]

Meat and mushrooms – the future is here: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of October 14th

October 13, 2021 | Helena Tavares Kennedy

It’s all about meat and mushrooms for this week’s Top 8 Innovations. From Stella McCartney’s mushroom leather bag made by Bolt Threads and new investments in NoMy to commercialize fungi-based materials all the way to Jane Goodall narrating a new documentary on cultivated meat, Ashton Kutcher’s endorsement of MeaTech to accelerate 3D printed, cultivated meat […]

Record $3.1B invested in alt proteins in 2020 signals growing market

March 21, 2021 | Helena Tavares Kennedy

In Washington, D.C., the alternative protein industry raised $3.1 billion in investments in 2020—three times more than in any single year in the industry’s history, according to Good Food Institute. Of the $5.9 billion raised by alternative protein companies over the past decade, more than half was received in 2020 alone. New data released by […]

Singapore first to approve cultivated meat for sale

December 7, 2020 | Rebecca Coons

In Singapore, regulatory authorities have approved the sale of cell-based meat, becoming the first country to do so. After extensive testing and review, The Singapore Food Agency has approved the sale of Eat Just’s cultured chicken nuggets. The Agency studied chicken samples from 20 production runs and found Eat Just proved its product met Singapore’s […]