Innovation

New lab, new opportunities: NutriControl expands significantly

They’ve got it: the keys to their brand-new premises on De Amert in Veghel. NutriControl, the go-to lab for food analysis and food safety for over 50 years, is about to take a major step forward. Growth, innovation, mome..

Protein drink from waste from the beer industry

29 September 2020

The Dutch beer industry produces enormous quantities (0.5 million tonnes) of beer every year, the residual product of malt after brewing. The bostel contains 30% protein. This residual product is now mainly processed int...

Enjoy meat without regrets with LikeMeat

29 September 2020

Founded in 2013, LikeMeat is still considered a pioneer in the production of plant meat and pursues the mission to create a better world with a better way of eating for a greater way of life. Above all, LikeMeat pro...

The potential of cultured meat and fish is great

28 September 2020

Mosa Meat, the European food technology company which introduced the world’s first cultured beef hamburger in 2013, announced the first closing of $55M as part of a larger Series B funding round. Mosa Meat will use th...

Vegan bitterballs scoop at Royal Spelt

25 September 2020

Royal Spelt Snacks B.V. has a first in the Netherlands, organic croquettes and bitterballs of spelt . "We are the first and only one in the Netherlands", says Fabienne Muller, who runs the company together with her husba...

Weltec builds biogas plant near Seoul

25 September 2020

Weltec Biopower starts building a biogas plant in South Korea. The plant is being set up in the province of Gyeonggi-do, some 60 km north of Seoul, and will transform biogas into heat in an integrated gas boiler. As earl...

Feed to Food, BOON sausage rolls from field beans

22 September 2020

The Dutch company BOON develops vegetable food products made from, the name says it all, beans. They not only look at the possibilities to make a tasty product of it. The innovation team is continuously studying differen...

More variety in meat substitutes in demand

21 September 2020

In March, Distrifood reported that sales of meat substitutes never grew as much as in 2019. Data and research agency Nielsen calculated a growth of 30%. This trend, which will continue, will also lead to the demand for a...

New vegan alternatives to cheese

18 September 2020

Onder de naam This is Not Parmesan en This is Not Classic Cream Cheese, introduceert plantaardige kaasmaker Willicroft twee nieuwe veganistische alternatieven voor kaas. De producten zijn te koop bij Picnic, Crisp en via...

Vegetable wraps made with 35 percent vegetables

18 September 2020

Uit onderzoek van het Voedingscentrum blijkt dat de Nederlandse consument gemiddeld 131 gram groente per dag eet. De aanbevolen hoeveelheid is 250 gram. Knorr wil laten zien dat dit op meerdere eetmomenten van de dag mog...

Sustainable and innovative ME-AT

16 September 2020

ME-AT wakkert de transitie naar een duurzamere voedingsindustrie aan door zich te richten op innovatie en duurzaamheid. Het assortiment bestaat uit plantaardige burgers, gehakt, schnitzels, kipstukjes, spekjes en worstje...

Plantbased private label concepts

16 September 2020

Het Giessense familiebedrijf Schouten Europe, dat zich in 1990 als eerste Nederlandse partij ging toeleggen op het ontwikkelen en produceren van plant-based protein producten, gaat zich de komende jaren focussen op priva...

The Blue Butcher

15 September 2020

Als vleesliefhebber hoef je niks te missen als je een dag geen vlees eet. Stel je voor dat je een heerlijke Amerikaanse burger kunt eten, die precies smaakt zoals jij hem graag wil hebben, maar dan zonder vlees! The Blue...

LikeMeat: New player on the Dutch market

15 September 2020

LikeMeat GmbH, in 2013 opgericht in Duitsland, wordt nog steeds beschouwd als een pionier in de productie van vleesvervangers. Sinds maart 2020 maakt LikeMeat deel uit van The LIVEKINDLY co. onder leiding van CEO Tal Nad...

Discovery tours

14 September 2020

'Nothing new under the sun', was what I thought in June, at the start of my summer vacation. The corona crisis quietly muddled on. No big trip to unknown places. No unexpected encounters or new mountain hiking routes, no...

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