Food Dive
How Ginkgo Bioworks leverages synthetic biology to shape future of food
Patrick Boyle is currently the Head of Codebase at Ginkgo Bioworks, a Boston-based synthetic biology company that makes and sells ...
Sustainable eating: Will politics slow adoption of cultivated foods and other technological innovations?
Cultivated meat is grown and harvested without traditional animal agriculture. A life cycle analysis of the cultivated meat industry by CE Delft, ...
Philadelphia Cream Cheese launches plant-based version
Philadelphia Cream Cheese is launching a plant-based version of its original-flavored spread. This is the first time a big brand ...
Non-GMO food label sees jump in popularity, especially in states that considered genetic modification labeling laws
Non-GMO Project Verified items saw much steeper growth rates than other products between 2019 and 2021, according to a report ...
Convenience – not sustainability – is major driving factor behind US consumer food purchases, study finds
[An] American Food Journey report sheds light on a long-standing knowledge gap between producers and consumers around their expectations for food. It ...
Impossible Food’s GM ingredient that gives its meatless burgers their meaty taste upheld as ‘safe’ by federal court, rejecting Center for Food Safety suit
When the Center for Food Safety brought the approval of Impossible Foods' heme ingredient to the federal courts, its reasoning ...
With GM salmon and lab-grown meat poised to hit the market, 2021 could be a turning point for food technology
The landscape is already changing. The first cell-based chicken appeared on a Singapore restaurant menu in late 2020, and several ...
AquaBounty ‘on track’ to sell GM salmon by year’s end, despite court ruling calling for more environmental impact data
The FDA should have given more consideration to the risks genetically modified AquAdvantage salmon posed to wild populations before approving ...
Lightlife urges Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods to drop ‘hyper-processed ingredients, GMOs’ from plant-based burgers
About a year ago, Lightlife President Dan Curtin challenged his team to make the cleanest plant-based burger they could create, ...
Sustainability report questions Beyond Meat’s environmental benefits, but is it a fair analysis?
Beyond Meat is lacking in environmental impact disclosures when compared to conventional meat giants Hormel and Tyson Foods, according to ...
Consumers are as open to seafood labeled ‘cell based’ as they are to ‘wild caught’ and ‘farm raised’
The research found common names using the word cell — including cell-based and cultivated from the cells of — did ...
Animal-free ice cream maker Perfect Day eyes launch of lab-made milk and mozzarella cheese
As many investments, new products and R&D have been slowed down in recent months, Perfect Day is continuing to grow ...
COVID-19 prompts healthier eating habits, while interest in ‘natural’ foods remains high
More than four out of five consumers say the coronavirus pandemic has changed their food habits, driving them to cook, ...
Will relaxed USDA GMO, gene-edited crop regulation fuel consumer distrust of biotech?
Plants genetically modified to make changes that also have been made through conventional breeding will not need specific federal oversight, ...
El Pollo Loco launches plant-based menu made from in-house, ‘non-GMO’ vegan chicken
El Pollo Loco is now offering plant-based chicken systemwide through its new Chickenless Pollo Taco and Burrito menu items, according ...
Time to regulate plant-based meat labels? Fewer than half of consumers know vegan ‘beef’ is animal free, survey shows
Fewer than half of consumers understand that "plant-based beef" is entirely vegan, according to a study from the National Cattlemen's ...
Consumer curiosity fuels popularity of GMO Impossible Burger and other plant-based meats, survey shows
The top reason why consumers decided to eat plant-based meat alternatives is because they like to try new foods, according ...
Food companies may wait until ‘last minute’ to comply with USDA’s bioengineered labeling rules
In grocery store freezer cases, Impossible Foods' ground plant-based meat stands out .... The unique part is on the back ...
Foodborne illnesses strike almost 48 million Americans annually. Do we need better food safety testing?
In the U.S. alone, there are an estimated 47.8 million illnesses, more than 127,000 hospitalizations and 3,000-plus deaths attributed to ...
77% of Generation Z willing to eat CRISPR, GMO-derived foods, new report shows
Members of Generation Z — those born between 1995 and 2010 — are the most willing to try foods produced ...
Fitness-focused consumers spur development of non-GMO soybean with 50% more protein
Israel-based startup Equinom is developing non-GMO soybeans with higher protein levels, which the company said in a release will deliver a ...
Legal experts say USDA unlikely to enforce violations of new bioengineered label law
The advice Martin Hahn, a partner at law firm Hogan Lovells, gave at the Institute of Food Technologists conference on ...
Organic food sales at $48 billion, now almost 6% of food, despite continued decline in market growth rate
Sales of organic food in the U.S. last year totaled a record $47.9 billion — 5.9% higher than 2017, according ...
Consumers want to buy from ethical companies, but interest in non-GMO, organic labels dropping, survey shows
A survey conducted by Crestline Custom Promotional Products showed 68.3% of American consumers want to support companies that promote similar ...
Pro-organic groups petition USDA to exclude hydroponic farming from organic certification
The Center for Food Safety filed a petition with the Department of Agriculture Jan. 16 urging the agency to exclude hydroponically grown ...
Food marketing can change buying habits, but consumers may become ‘numb’ to unnecessary labels
A study by the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University said labeling has an effect on ...
‘Gluten free,’ ‘organic’ and other health fads driving ‘huge’ changes in food production
U.S. consumers are increasingly scanning labels to check that products do not contain certain ingredients, such as gluten, GMOs, antibiotics, pesticides ...
Food companies say transparency will end public backlash against GMOs
Through the years that Okanagan Specialty Fruits worked on developing the Arctic apple — a fruit that is genetically modified so ...