Adrianne DeLuca

While scale may be a near-term limitation to the success of alt-proteins, marketing to mainstream consumers remains the category’s most significant roadblock to achieving the its stated missions.

GOOD Meat Inc. has received the go-ahead from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin producing its cell-cultivated chicken product stateside.

In this week’s roundup: Kelloggs unveils names for new business divisions, Blue Apron works to solve liquidity issues, Meijer expands Flashfood program to include SNAP benefits and Albertsons and McCormick introduce new product looks.

Has a new report touched off industry panic over erythritol? Judging by Expo West, perhaps not quite yet. A week before the show, scientific journal Nature Medicine released a study claiming that erythritol was linked to elevated rates of heart attack and stroke.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on grocery retail prices may have been felt the most in 2022, according to a new report from Coresight Research, in partnership with the Food Industry Association (FMI).

Climate neutral cracker brand Moonshot Snacks has been acquired by Patagonia Provisions, the food and beverage division of outdoor-centric brand Patagonia. The news marks Patagonia’s first acquisition in over twenty years.

In this roundup: Home Chef expands business with new East Coast facility; Poppy raises $3M for handcrafted popcorn; Afresh expands to new areas of the store and Renegade Foods unveils shelf-stable vegan deli meat.

Gut health-focused snack bar brand BelliWelli announced this week it raised $15.4 million in a funding round that closed in January, led by New York-based private equity firm The Invus Group.

Plant-based food company Eat Just recently laid off about 40 of its over 300 employees, totaling 18% of its JUST Egg division. The California-based company’s cultured protein business, GOOD Meat, was not impacted.

A new study in the scientific journal Nature Medicine is drawing links between popular sweetener erythritol and blood clotting, stroke, heart attack and death.