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Bio-Manufacturing or Bust as Aussie Scientist Slams ANZ for Sleeping on $30 Trillion Opportunity
Bio-manufacturing isn’t just for lab nerds and VC types. It’s the quiet force about to rewrite how we produce food, cosmetics, clothing, and even your future protein shake. Dr James Ryall, an Australian-based consultant and former Chief Scientist at VOW Foods and long-time insider in the cellular agriculture space, closed out the 2025 CellAg Symposium in Nelson with a rallying cry - Australia and New Zealand are sitting on a goldmine and doing nothing.
4 hours ago3 min read
Fat Chance, Meat Lovers Because Tastilux Is Here to Fool Your Taste Buds (and That’s a Good Thing)
Australian food tech outfit Nourish Ingredients has created Tastilux - an animal-free fat so convincing it could pass for the real deal in a blindfolded taste test. No cows, no pigs, no chickens involved. Just precision fermentation wizardry, a partnership with China’s Cabio Biotech, and a whole lot of science making your fake meat feel frighteningly real.
2 days ago2 min read
From NZ to Tokyo as Nutrition from Water Drops Anchor with Japan’s Protein Kingpin
Portugal-based Kiwi startup Nutrition from Water™ (NXW) - founded by New Zealander Alex Worker - has just signed a deal with Nissei Kyoeki, one of Japan’s long-standing protein import royalty. Together, they’re launching NXW's Marine Whey, a next-gen protein brewed not from cows, but from the sea. Yep, it's protein. From water.
2 days ago1 min read
Feeding 10 Billion? NZ’s CellAg Symposium Says the Science Is Here, But Who’s Paying?
Can cellular agriculture feed 10 billion people by 2050? That was the big question behind New Zealand’s first in-person CellAg Symposium, held in Nelson and hosted by Plant & Food Research. Nearly 70 scientists, engineers, founders, investors, and regulators came together from across New Zealand, Australia, and beyond to chart the future of food and what’s needed to get there.
2 days ago3 min read
VCs Love Future FoodTech But Just Not When Women Are Behind It
In Israel’s booming future FoodTech sector, where everything from lab-grown tuna to AI-designed proteins is being cooked up, women are doin
4 days ago2 min read
AUSTRALIA SIGNS OFF ON CULTIVATED QUAIL AS VOW MAKES HISTORY WITH WORLD-FIRST FSANZ APPROVAL
Well, it’s official. Australia has just greenlit its first-ever lab-grown meat and it’s not beef, chicken or kangaroo. It’s quail. Cultivate
4 days ago2 min read
Breast Milk Ice Cream? Frida Says Chill It’s (Almost) Real
Frida, the brand best known for solving weird baby problems (like sucking snot out of tiny noses), has announced its next frontier - breast
5 days ago2 min read
Why Aussie & Kiwi Artisanal Food Brands May Have Just Found Their Moment in China
While the US flexes its economic biceps with another round of tariffs on Chinese goods, on the ground in China, no one’s reaching for Americ
6 days ago2 min read
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