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Construction: Important considerations for food entrepreneurs

You want to expand or renovate. So, you decide to build! Once you’ve made that decision, questions start arising. What materials will you choose? Are they sustainable? How does this choice affect fire safety? What about ..

Kipster develops Vegan egg: VEGGS

05 October 2020

VEGGS is a liquid substance consisting of numerous ingredients, including yeast and soy protein. You can make an excellent scrambled egg with it. Superb mouthfeel For more than two years the chicken farmers o...

Introduction of Yog without Hurt

01 October 2020

Abbot Kinney's, which has been part of the natural food company Wessanen for two years, makes vegetable-based alternatives to dairy based on organic coconut milk, oats and almonds. A letter they received at the end of Au...

CBS: The Netherlands grows fewer protein crops

30 September 2020

The cultivation of protein crops such as alfalfa, field beans and soya beans has declined by 2020. The area under cultivation shrank by 3% compared to a year earlier. The decrease is mainly due to less soya being grown. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The first vegan spareribs worldwide

15 September 2020

The popular, Dutch restaurant chain Vegan Junk Food bar is the first restaurant worldwide to be selling the Heppi® Ribs in a collaboration with meat alternative producer Ojah, who launched “The World’s First Vegan Ribs” ...