What’s moving the food technology industry forward. Here’s the strange thing about this week in food tech: the most futuristic ingredient discovery and the most old-school restaurant collapse happened within 48 hours of each other. A London lab is teaching AI to “taste” by watching how a drop of liquid vibrates against a surface —…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. There’s a strange kind of symmetry in this week’s news — and I can’t stop thinking about it. On the same morning the USDA pledged $60 million to small meat and poultry processors, Beyond Meat quietly announced it was dropping “Meat” from its name. A Nebraska startup closed…
This week in food tech: trends, investments, and what actually mattered. Cultivated Meat’s Reckoning: Why Big Food Is Betting on “Complete Nutrition” While AI Reshapes the Farm Executive Summary This week delivered a stark illustration of the food technology sector’s deepening bifurcation. On one side, Nestlé accelerated its Nutrition strategy with the full acquisition of…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. Something strange is happening in the protein aisle. As whey prices spike 40% and food companies scramble to reformulate, the same week delivers two milestone announcements that feel like they belong to different industries entirely. One sector is cutting jobs and retreating. The other is launching products and…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. Here’s something I keep coming back to: the food tech industry spent years chasing a single promise—that alternative proteins could hit cost parity with conventional meat and flip the entire industry on its head. That promise is still alive. But the path there has gotten a lot more…
This week in food tech: trends, investments, and what actually mattered. Food Tech’s Great Rebalancing: IFF’s $4.3B Divestiture, Mycelium Consolidation, and the AI Reckoning Executive Summary This week delivered a stark illustration of how the food technology landscape is being reshaped by forces both macroeconomic and microscopic. International Flavors & Fragrances’ $4.3 billion sale of…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. Every few weeks, a cluster of stories lands on my desk that makes me pause and think: oh, things are actually moving now. Today’s is one of those clusters. Three of the six headlines landing in this digest are infrastructure stories—big manufacturing bets, facility buildouts, deals that signal…
What’s moving the food technology industry forward. Wait a minute — when did the world’s largest food companies start agreeing on anything? That’s not a rhetorical question. It’s genuinely striking. The industry that gave us the soda wars, the plant-based protein arms race, and enough greenwashing to fill a landfill has somehow found a rare…
This week in food tech: trends, investments, and what actually mattered. Beyond Borders: McCormick’s $4.2 Billion Bet Signals a New Consolidation Wave in Food Ingredients Executive Summary This week’s food technology landscape was defined by one dominant event: McCormick & Company’s $4.2 billion acquisition of Reckitt Benckiser’s food business, the largest deal in the sector…
For years, the food tech conversation felt fragmented. You’ve got your vertical farming nerds over here, your alternative protein crowd over there, and nobody really agreeing on what “regenerative” even means. But lately? The walls between these worlds are crumbling faster than I expected — and today’s digest is proof. We’re looking at a week…