Olivia Fox Cabane is the organiser of the Alternative Protein Summit and is recognised for her industry landscapes mapping out foodtech’s most innovative companies, an activity with which we at vegconomist are most fascinated. In essence, Olivia’s work is like a roadmap of the future, and offers a fascinating insight into the speed at which the future of food and biotech is developing, and progressing away from the old norms of animal proteins and other harmful products, so that we can have a more sustainable world.
Industry Pioneer, Educator and Bestselling Author Olivia Fox Cabane on the Future of Food – page 2
The Algae Landscape Algae companies in particular are highly sought-after, perhaps because the bioavailability of algae protein is far higher than almost any other food group. Spirulina for instance has around a 70% rate. This is a collaboration with Dr. Peter Ralph and Dr. Alexandra Thompson of the UT Sydney, and is the one that is growing the fastest: within 4 days, the successive iterations had garnered more than 20,000 views and my LinkedIn inbox was flooded with logos and companies. Clearly, there was a pent-up demand, but it’s also a very active space. Unlike fungi, algae benefit from a certain ‘health halo’ (if it has spirulina in it, it must be healthy) Algae have an incredibly wide range of applications, and has long been …