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Plant-based eating: half of Dutch people need help

Swapping ground meat for lentils, or cow’s milk for a plant-based alternative. Through small swaps like these, Wissel ’ns Wat! aims to encourage Dutch people to eat plant-based foods more often. The approach focuses on o..

Mycoprotein for optimal texture and taste

12 September 2022

Current meat replacements mainly use vegetable ingredients as a basis, such as soya, peas or wheat. The intrinsic product properties, including side effects and specific texture properties, are not always to the consumer...

TLR newcomer to Dutch Fresh Port

12 September 2022

Is that organic tomato really organic? Do these strawberries, raspberries or berries carry the hepatitis-A virus or norovirus, or is a full pesticide screening with retail specification required? Questions that TLR, newc...

A veggie burger out of the printer

07 September 2022

Researchers at WUR have developed a process for printing a vegetarian burger. The burger is made up of spaghetti-like threads of protein. In the process hall of the Axis campus building stands a Burger Extrusion Print...

Consumer price awareness increases dramatically

06 September 2022

The pursuit of a healthier diet is on the wane now that the threat of COVID-19 has been temporarily averted. There is more carefree enjoyment of food. But price awareness has increased dramatically. Six out of ten consum...

New lactic acid bacteria change plant-based foods

05 September 2022

A new type of lactic acid bacteria, developed by researchers at DTU (Technical University of Denmark), can form natural butter flavor when grown in plant-based drinks such as soy and oat milk. Now researchers from DTU...

NTU develops fungi-based food product

02 September 2022

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a technique to cultivate a fungi-based food product that could serve as a healthier, better tasting, and greener alternative to p...

The 100 most important food changers of 2022

31 August 2022

For the sixth time, Food100 presents the list of the 100 most important Dutch food changers of the moment. Dialogue within the food chain Sharing knowledge and connecting is more important than ever. It is no...

Turnover food industry up 28.3 percent

30 August 2022

In the second quarter of 2022, turnover in the food industry was 28.3 percent up on a year earlier, largely due to higher prices. Nearly 11 percent of manufacturers in the food industry also expect higher turnover in the...

Fungi take over the food industry

29 August 2022

A retail report by product discovery and purchasing platform RangeMe has explored CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) trends in the second quarter of 2022. A key finding is that demand for mushrooms is rapidly increasing. The ...

Fonterra and DSM join forces on precision fermentation

26 August 2022

Fonterra and Royal DSM are establishing a new start-up company to accelerate the development and commercialisation of fermentation-derived proteins with dairy-like properties. The new start-up company will enable the ...

From fruit stones to tasty food

19 August 2022

Kern Tec GmbH has developed a range of technologies that turn the fruit stones that normally end up in the rubbish into tasty food. More than half a million tonnes of apricot, cherry, plum and peach stones are thrown awa...

Record number of company closures in food industry

16 August 2022

In the first half of this year, 310 companies in the food industry closed their doors. The number of closures has never been so high since Statistics Netherlands started measuring the number of company closures in 2007. ...

Plant-based meat now cheaper on average than meat

15 August 2022

Meat, dairy products, vegetables, fruit, bread, petrol… everything has become more expensive due to inflation and high raw material prices. Everything, except plant-based meat alternatives. While meat prices have incr...

Research into usable side streams for insect cultivation

28 July 2022

An alliance of insect breeders, consultancies, natural capital managers and an animal feed manufacturer will be investigating low-value side streams. These raw materials can be processed into substrate: the nutrient basi...

The Dutch are willing to eat more insects

26 July 2022

Dutch people are very open to the idea of eating more insects. 1 out of 5 Dutch people (21%) have already eaten insects or insect-based food. This is shown in research commissioned by Ÿnsect. When the advantages in te...