Consumers want more from plant-based meat alternatives, from taste to texture and affordability. Could understanding the extrusion process deliver on all three? After some years of rapid growth, the ...

WASHINGTON - Browsing the plant-based product aisle, you may notice many products rely on the same ingredients: soy, wheat, ...

Alternative proteins have grown increasingly popular over the last decade as consumers look for options that fit vegetarian, vegan, or even ‘flexitarian’ diets as part of a larger shift toward ...

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The offices of plant-based protein startup Heura are tucked away down a narrow street a short distance from one of Barcelona’s main tourist draws. But the team of entrepreneurs and food scientists won ...

When Beyond Meat went public in 2019 in an initial stock offering that saw its shares nearly triple in price, it seemed to confirm that plant-based meats had arrived. The food technology, capable of ...

To help plant-based players close the sales gap with animal products, the non-profit Nectar tapped a diverse group of more than 2,600 omnivores to blind taste test and assess 122 meat alternatives ...

The plant-based meat industry is in a bad place. Sales in the US fell last year as the pandemic-era enthusiasm for vegan burgers and sausages continued to wane. Beyond Meat, once the darling of the ...

South Africa has one of Africa’s largest plant-based meat markets. How do consumers view these meat-free alternatives? Two years ago, the South African government attempted to ban ‘meaty’ names for ...

EU countries and lawmakers are set for contentious negotiations over a proposal to ban plant-based foods from using traditional meat labels like "sausage" and "burger." Backed by the European ...