Elaine Watson
Precision probiotics: Can this anti-hangover drink help you metabolize alcohol quicker?
Spoiler alert: Hangover ‘cures’ don’t work, observes Dr. Zachary Abbott. If you’ve overindulged the night before, Gatorade, herbal remedies and ...
Animal-free real dairy products are beginning to roll out
General Mills moves into the emerging ‘animal-free’ dairy category with a brand called Bold Cultr – a lactose-free cream cheese ...
‘Blissfully unaware’: Many food manufacturers don’t realize new GM labeling law applies to them and are unprepared for end-of-year deadline
Compliance with the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (NBFDS) – which requires firms with annual sales of >$2.5m to label ...
Honey without bees? A synthetic version that mimics the ‘real thing’ could be available in 2021
MeliBio, the Berkeley-based startup claiming to make real honey without bees, has closed $850,000 in pre-seed funding as it gears ...
US consumers still prefer beef to plant-based meat on nutrition and taste, survey shows
[A] 79-page report - commissioned by the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board and written by Glynn Tonsor and Ted ...
CRISPR-edited eggs offer novel way to eliminate slaughter of newborn male chicks
[Most consumers] are blissfully unaware that the egg industry also slaughters billions of animals every year, but not to put ...
Will we ever eat lab-grown meat? Infant industry faces technical hurdles and fickle consumers
Blood, sweat and tears are a given, but we’ll also need to see significant movement in the price and availability ...
Could food of the future come from ‘microbial protein factories’ instead of plants and animals?
Could a suite of microscopic microbial protein factories (yeast, bacteria, fungi, algae) give plants and animals a run for their ...
Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat dismiss criticism from rival Lightlife Foods as a PR stunt
In an open letter slammed by Impossible Foods as cynical and disingenuous and dismissed by one commentator as a “PR ...
Organic activists sue USDA to nullify and revise bioengineered food labeling standards
The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard – which requires firms to label ‘bioengineered’ foods and beverages – is unlawful and ...
Impossible Foods rolls out plant-based GMO burger to 1,700 new stores as COVID-19 strains meat supplies
As more meat plants temporarily close or operate at reduced capacity as coronavirus spreads, plant-based brands “have a window of ...
FDA has ‘no objections’ to lab-made dairy proteins produced with GMO microbes
Perfect Day, a startup producing milk proteins via microbial fermentation (minus the cows), has secured a coveted ‘no questions/objections’ letter ...
Beyond Meat goes ‘on the offensive,’ blasting critics who claim plant-based burgers are ultra-processed
While its CEO says engaging in an increasingly heated debate over the merits of plant- vs animal-based meat can be ...
Most food flavorings could be made with GMO microbes, sparing large amounts of farmland
In future, the majority of natural flavors could be produced from microscopic armies of microbes programmed to convert sugars into ...
Proposed US law would require Beyond, Impossible Burgers to be labeled ‘imitation’ meat
A federal bill that would require plant-based and cell-cultured meat products to be labeled as ‘imitation’ meat has been welcomed ...
Will meat, milk and eggs from ‘microbial protein factories’ replace animal agriculture?
“By 2030, the US dairy and cattle industry will have collapsed,” as ‘precision fermentation’ – producing animal proteins more efficiently ...
Animal proteins from GMO microbes: More synthetic food ingredients to launch in 2021
The first three proteins from Motif FoodWorks’ fermentation-based food ingredient platform will be ready for launch in early 2021, says ...
Impossible Foods defends use of GMO soy in plant-based burger to stand out from competitors
As ingredient choices made by ‘next-generation’ plant-based meat brands attract more scrutiny, with some making a virtue of using peas ...
Nestlé poised to launch plant-based ‘Awesome Burger’ to compete with Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat
Nestlé’s new ‘cook from raw’ plant-based Awesome Burger (launching in the fall under the Sweet Earth brand in retail and ...
Key ‘non-GMO’ ingredient for next plant-based burger may come from algae
Triton Algae Innovations - a San Diego-based firm building a production platform for food proteins from algae - says it ...
What is ‘clean eating’? Consumers say popular marketing trend is ‘confusing’ and ‘pretentious’
While phrases such as ‘eating clean’ are starting to appear more frequently in consumer marketing, Mintel research shows some consumers ...
GMO label should be mandatory on refined oils and sugars, says food industry lobby, aligning with anti-biotech groups
Consumers will lose trust in the food industry if USDA does not mandate that refined ingredients such as oils and ...
Finless Foods: Lab-grown fish startup that uses genetic engineering nears commercialization
Finless Foods – one of a new wave of start-ups in the rapidly heating-up cultured fish arena - has raised ...
Non-GMO Project: USDA’s labeling proposal makes us ‘more relevant than ever’
The Non-GMO Project will “only become more relevant” as mandatory GMO labeling kicks in, in part because its scope could ...
Early feedback on USDA’s GMO labeling proposal reveals ‘significant disagreement’
If the first wave of comments to its proposed rule on GMO labeling is anything to go by, USDA’s agricultural ...
USDA’s GMO food labeling proposal: What you need to know
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has published a long-awaited proposed rule to establish GMO labeling standards (the National Bioengineered ...
Anti-GMO group Moms Across America attacks food brands over trace parts per billion of glyphosate
[G]lyphosate [is] in the spotlight again as anti-GMO activist group Moms Across America released test results suggesting trace levels of ...
Milk without cows: Commercialization of synthetic dairy products in the works
Berkeley-based Perfect Day – which is creating ‘vegan’ dairy proteins without cows – is in talks with food industry partners ...