BeanStalk Foods, a new plant-based meat brand inspired by Beyond Meat, Moving Mountains, and Heura, is entering the European market with a wide range of plant-based meat products.

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New Plant-Based Meat Brand ‘BeanStalk’ Enters European Market with Diverse Range from Burgers to Pastrami

BeanStalk Foods, a new plant-based meat brand inspired by Beyond Meat, Moving Mountains, and Heura, is entering the European market with a wide range of plant-based meat products that the company describes as delicious and high-quality alternatives to animal proteins. Supported by a large international business group with operations in Madrid and Barcelona, a production facility near Shanghai, China, and a sister company in New York to market its products in North America, the company presents itself as a global entity producing and distributing high-quality plant-based meat. After a year of product development and adhering to European regulations, its portfolio includes traditional items like hamburgers and meatballs and less common options such as pastrami, breaded calamari, and pulled meat. It also offers salami and chorizo …

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Rügenwalder Mühle Launches Vegan Salami Peperoni, Removes Methylcellulose from All Vegan Salami Lines

German market leader Rügenwalder Mühle announces the launch of a new vegan variety of its Mühlen Salami. At the same time, the existing varieties have been revised so that all vegan salami varieties are now methylcellulose-free. Both Vegan Salami Classic and Colourful Pepper are now free from methylcellulose. This means that all vegan salami varieties are now free from the additive. “Even though methylcellulose is not a questionable ingredient, many of our consumers wanted a salami without it,” says Steffen Zeller, CMO at Rügenwalder Mühle. “We have managed to fulfill this consumer wish and have also improved the taste of our Vegan Salami Classic to such an extent that it scored best in all the tests we carried out. This is an absolute win-win situation for …

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Planted Launches the “Cleanest Lyoner Cold Cut on the Market” at Coop Switzerland

Swiss foodtech startup Planted announces the launch of its first plant-based cold cut in Swiss retail through a distribution deal with Coop. The cold cut is an alternative to the Lyoner Wurst style of meat, often referred to as German bologna, and marks Planted’s entrance into the charcuterie category. According to Planted, the cold cut is produced with all-natural ingredients and as such is “the cleanest Lyoner cold cut on the market”. Additionally, compared to its animal counterpart, the plant-based Lyoner creates 34% less CO2 and uses 51% less water, making it an environmentally friendlier option to standard cuts of meat that are sliced from the flesh of an animal. The vegan Lyoner meat is created with pea protein, rapeseed oil, water, spices, yeast, salt, …

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