The Future of Food Technology Delivered Weekly
Updates on the latest innovations, mergers, and acquisitions within the FoodTech space.
New technologies, trends, and shifts in the industry, such as plant-based food developments, lab-grown meats, or smart kitchen tools.
TIME’s 2026 Best Inventions list names Leaft Foods’ alfalfa-derived Rubisco protein drink, Beyond Meat’s four-ingredient faba bean mince and Lavazza’s plastic-free Tablì coffee pucks, with Milkadamia’s 2D-printed oat milk sheets among the special mentions.
The WHO’s Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health has signed a multi-year partnership with GFI APAC to produce a flagship report on plant-based, fermented and cultivated proteins, putting alternative proteins on the regional public health policy agenda.
FDA has finalised a rule letting manufacturers use safe and suitable salt substitutes in 139 standards of identity, from cheese and bread to canned tuna and tomato products, effective 14 December 2026, with dairy objections due 12 November.
A new Abu Dhabi guideline lets novel food developers run regulated tasting and sensory evaluation studies of cultivated meat, precision-fermented proteins and other alternative proteins before full UAE market approval.
Those Vegan Cowboys, XXL Nutrition, Interfood and HAS University will use a €1.2 million EU OPZuid grant to develop animal-free casein for sports recovery products, with a US-first commercial path while EU Novel Foods waits.
The all-cash deal brings a profitable catering marketplace with more than 140,000 restaurants, $2.5 billion in annual gross bookings and average orders above $400 into Uber’s delivery business.
Spiber is opening the strain engineering and fermentation chain behind Brewed Protein to outside customers, with food ingredients among the targets and capacity running up to fermenters of more than 100 kL in Thailand.
Berlin’s Cultimate Foods is winding down, leaving cultivated-fat’s boldest thesis quietly defunct. The first: 80 Acres Farms, the Ohio vertical-farming unicorn that raised nearly $400 million over a decade, announced a nationwide wind-down after a buyer walked away at the eleventh hour. The second: Marc Lore’s Wonder just closed a $650 million round at a…
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