Food Tech - Issue #28

The US company’s proteins-on-demand portal provides a more efficient way to source proteins for novel food ingredients, drug discovery, and more.

‘Future food’ is one of several areas outlined in a new document setting out agricultural policy objectives under the country’s 14th Five-Year Plan.

Bolk, a maker of bowl-making robotic canteen, announced today that is has raised €4 million in new funding. Founded in 2020, the French startup is using the capital to build prototypes which it has…

The UK Government has announced that the CO2 industry has come to an agreement to ensure businesses have access to a continued supply of CO2.

A new study has found that increasing the fibre content of everyday food items could lower the risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

This week Japan-based startup Integriculture announced they had raised $7 million to accelerate its efforts to build a cellular agriculture infrastructure platform to scale cell-cultured meat produ…

Whether it’s to carry groceries around the store or to deliver them to our front door, it won’t be too much longer before everyday shoppers see robots both in and around the grocery sto…

Will we see mass food recalls and an increase in allergic reactions, as we see demand in alternatives proteins rise? Most likely…

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NPC is very pleased to announce two more sessions in our virtual pitch series dedicated to the growing world of alternative protein. This investor-focused initiative is a collaboration with The Protein Highway, Protein Industries Canada, BioAlberta, Humane Society International/Canada and others helping to build the alternative protein sector.

Rising carbon levels in the atmosphere can make plants grow faster, but there’s another hidden consequence: they rob plants of the nutrients and vitamins we need to survive. In a talk about global food security, epidemiologist Kristie Ebi explores the potentially massive health consequences of this growing nutrition crisis – and explores the steps we can take to ensure all people have access to safe, healthy food.

You want to eat a more climate-friendly diet but you’re not ready to be vegan or vegetarian? That’s OK, says entrepreneur Brian Kateman. Instead, you could be a “reducetarian” — someone who’s making the conscious choice to decrease the amount of meat they consume. In this talk, he explains the costs of our current diets and the benefits that adapting a reducetarian way of eating could bring to us and the planet.