UK’s First Unprocessed Walnut -Based Meat Free Mince Lands
Whitworths has just dropped the UK’s first unprocessed walnut-based meat-free mince, and it’s a quiet challenge to the fake-meat aisle. Forget long ingredient lists and over-engineered soy bricks, this mince is just walnuts, lentils, and quinoa, spun into a texture that actually chews like beef. At £3.20 a pack, it’s aimed squarely at shoppers tired of the ultra-processed plant-based tag.
6 hours ago1 min read
Plant Proteins Quietly Go Mainstream with Delidoor and FROOM
Plant proteins aren’t just a fringe choice anymore, they’re quietly embedding themselves in the weekly menus of ordinary Australian households. Fascin8foods’ mushroom-based FROOM™ has landed in Delidoor’s plant-based frozen meal range, now reaching families, professionals, and seniors who rely on the brand’s 12,000 weekly deliveries.
10 hours ago1 min read
How New Zealand’s Pure Food Co Brings Healthcare Nutrition to France
Forget bland mush in nursing homes as New Zealand’s The Pure Food Co takes its age-care nutrition smarts offshore. Its French subsidiary, The Pure Food Co France, has teamed up with healthcare giant emeis and Sysco France to deliver meals with modified textures (IDDSI 4) that look and taste like real food, not clinical slop.
1 day ago1 min read
Australia's Sydney Flemington Markets Turns 50 and Still Feeding the City
Half a century on, Sydney, Australia's Flemington Markets are still the beating heart of fruit, veg, and flowers for NSW and the ACT. What began in 1975 with nervous tenants staring at empty stalls has become a 2.5 million-tonne food distribution powerhouse servicing millions across metropolitan Australia.
2 days ago1 min read
McDonalds Canada Puts Plant Burgers Back on the Map
Remember when McDonalds quietly shelved its McPlant ambitions? Well McDonalds Canada has gone against the memo from head-office. The McVeggie is now going nationwide, slotting a Beyond (Meat ) plant patty into the most mainstream of menus. For a chain still printing cash off Big Macs, this is a consumer signal showing plant-based has staying power, even in the most conservative QSR (Quick Service Restaurant) arena.
2 days ago1 min read
Anuga 2025 Carves Out a Home for Future Foods - 'Anuga Alternatives'
The world’s biggest food fair just got a plant-and-cell facelift. Anuga’s 2025 edition in Cologne is giving prime floor space to a new 'Anuga Alternatives' hall and it’s not short of headliners. Beyond Meat and Oatly are on the list, but so too are tofu makers like Omami, algae caviar producers like Jens Møller, mycelium innovators like Pacifico Biolabs, sunflower protein players, and egg-free specialists Neggst.
2 days ago1 min read
United States Meat Alternatives Market (2025)
United States meat alternatives market — still growing on the big picture, but messy up close. DataM pegs the global meat alternatives market at US$9.6bn (2022) with a path to ~US$20.8bn by 2031 (Year on Year Growth~10.2%). That tailwind matters for the U.S., where brands are quietly reshaping ranges even as retailers trim slow movers.
2 days ago1 min read
Indian Meal-Building: The $Billion Accompaniment Market Hiding in Plain Sight
Forget just ready-meals and curry kits, Indian meal-building kit's secret power is in accompaniments. Think naan, paratha, rotis, samosas, pakoras, chutneys, pickles and raita bases. These aren’t full meals, but they’re the missing links that make a plate feel whole.
3 days ago1 min read
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