A recent report from Frontiers explores the acceptance of clean meat and plant-based meat alternatives in the USA, China and India. Revealingly, meat-eaters would be more likely to purchase clean meat than vegetarians in all [...]- According to Japanese news platform Sora News, Japan’s most popular domestic burger chain has added a vegan burger called The Green Burger. Mos Burger, with the MOS as an abbreviation for “mountain, ocean, sky” – [...]
- It was said to have begun at a wholesale animal market in Wuhan City which health officials have strongly suggested as the starting point of the outbreak. However, COVID-19 is not the only animal virus [...]
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Life3 Biotech Announces Agri-Food Pilot Facility For “Veego” – Singapore's First Plant-Based Protein
Following our report revealing Singapore to be a newly emerging epicentre for foodtech in Asia, foodtech startup Life3 Biotech has just announced Singapore’s first integrated agri-food pilot facility, to produce 1,200 to 1,800 tonnes annually [...] - Chinese snack firm Baicaowei is claiming a ‘new era of meat’ with a plantbased sausage snack launched this year, claiming that this is unlike any other seen in the country before. Last month PepsiCo acquired [...]
- Fast Company has named Singapore’s Shiok Meats as one of the top ten most innovative companies in Asia Pacific. The startup, which aims to disrupt the $40 billion shrimp market, last year secured $4.6 million [...]
- Yesterday March 17, Family Mart Japan launched the vegan Veggie Burg-don, also known as the Soy-Patty Burger Bowl, into 1900 stores around Tokyo. A vegan version of a popular Japanese hamburger style dish, the new [...]
- Asia has been cited in a recent report as the continent to watch as the alternative protein industry takes shape globally. Within Asia, Singapore is emerging as the food tech capital, with its government investing [...]
- It was announced yesterday that China-focused impact investor Dao Foods International, in partnership with New Crop Capital, an early investor of Beyond Meat and over 30 other alternative protein ventures around the world, has invested [...]
- According to Bloomberg.com, San Francisco food manufacturing company, JUST, producer of the vegan JUST Egg, is fielding increased inquiries from Chinese state-backed companies seeking animal-free protein sources amidst the coronavirus outbreak.
- Major Taiwanese convenience store chain FamilyMart has partnered with Green Monday to release the very first instant cup meals containing vegan pork product Omnipork. This marks the first time for OmniPork to co-brand with FamilyMart’s [...]
- Hong Kong’s vegan pork pioneers Omnipork have released the OmniEat Handmade Dim Sum Series to offer the public with healthier and low-carbon alternatives – incorporating food 2.0 OmniPork while maintaining traditional flavors, as the demand [...]
- AirKitchen is a Tokyo-based startup working to make Japan more vegan-friendly to travelers. Similar to Airbnb but for cooking classes, the online kitchen sharing platform connects foreigners interested in an intimate cultural and culinary experience [...]
- The Asian market is at the forefront of conversation in vegan business today and represents the potential for huge growth due to increased meat prices, and of course the coronavirus. David Yeung, perhaps the the [...]
- Eiko Onishi has designed an app in Hong Kong that will encourage restaurants to offer more vegan menu options and will connect meat-free eaters to those restaurants. Pay-a-Vegan looks set to launch this summer.
- Green Queen Media has recently released an in-depth report that provides a comprehensive overview of the alternative protein industry across Asia. The report highlights the complexities in the Asian market but ultimately that it has [...]
- Green Monday is a sustainability initiative based in Hong Kong that oversees the hugely popular pork alternative Omnipork, which in Taiwan sold at a rate of a million per week this year. The company now [...]
- Today Thursday, Swiss food technology provider Bühler Holding AG, and global leader in flavors and fragrances Givaudan, announce that together they will build an Innovation Center dedicated to plant-based food, which will open in Singapore [...]
- Taiwan’s biggest quick service restaurant chain, Bafang Yunji, is partnering with Green Monday to debut its first plant based dumplings across the country. Two plant based options – OmniPork pan-fried dumplings and OmniPork boiled dumplings [...]
- Thailand’s largest agribusiness firm, Charoen Pokphand Foods Pcl (CPF), is launching its own line of plant-based meat substitutes this year in response to the growing customer demand of animal free foods, a top executive announced [...]
- YouKuai Group Brand Z-Rou Meat has signed a distribution agreement with IS Seafood, a sustainably oriented B2B seafood provider, in Shanghai. Z-Rou Meat was officially launched in China in December last year and initially began [...]
- Zhenmeat founder Vince Lu told CNBC in an interview this week that the Beijing-based startup is “talking aggressively” with investors from Europe, China and the United States in hopes to raise up to US$ 2 [...]
- A recent report shows that in Japan, more consumers are choosing good-for-me, good-for-earth foods, due to increased environmental concerns, animal welfare, and for their own health. However, just only 20% of Japanese are choosing eat [...]
- China Daily, an official newspaper controlled by the Chinese Government, has responded with a backlash against a New York Times article stating that growing demand for pork and beef in China has fueled much of [...]
- The world consumption of animal protein is on the way to increase by 70% by the year 2050. Of the different types of meat, there is one whose production will continue to grow continuously throughout [...]
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