Will the next wave of alt dairy be built backwards?
Animal-free dairy start-up is reversing the traditional biotech model, prioritizing scalability and cost from the outset as the category resets.
Canadian start-up Aux Labs is a new player in the animal-free dairy space with what it describes as a more flexible approach to product development and scale that reflects the strained funding environment.
Instead of designing the ingredient first and then figuring out how to produce at scale, the start-up looks to existing manufacturing infrastructure to inform its ingredient design.
Calbee, AMILI bring personalized nutrition to Singapore
Japanese food, snacks and nutrition company Calbee is partnering with the Singapore microbiome firm AMILI in bringing personalized nutrition to the country.
Known as Body Granola, the personalized nutrition service consists of a microbiome gut health test and a personalized granola subscription.
Users will first undergo a gut microbiome test that analyzes their gut microbiome type, the diversity of gut bacteria present and the proportion of bacteria detected.
Based on users’ test results, the service would recommend specific prebiotics suitable for their gut microbiome.
5 food and drink innovations shaping the industry’s next growth wave
Smart insight is driving innovation to the next level, whether it’s how to better tap into GLP-1 nutrition or the rise of frozen snacks, manufacturers are getting clever.
Food and drink innovation is moving at breakneck speed. ‘Nutrient dense’ meals for GLP-1 users, purple yam drinks and viral frozen snacks are among the launches to have landed since the start of the year.
These innovations all have one thing in common. While they may be headline-grabbing, they are set to earn far more than a fleeting moment of attention. That’s because they are backed by rigorous insight and savvy targeting.
‘Consumers want more’: Tetra Pak on keeping up with rapid global change
Against a backdrop of global uncertainty and rapidly evolving consumer demands, Tetra Pak’s global VP Marketing Julia Luscher reveals the company’s key focus areas to stay ahead
“Food, beverage and packaging trends are shifting faster than ever, and there are also global disruptions to supply chains and the rising costs of oil coming into play,” Lusher said when queried about the biggest industry challenges she sees today.
“The fact is that consumers today want more from their food and beverage spend, and this appears across many different facets from functionality to formats to sizing.”
Men more likely than women to justify meat-eating, Turkish study finds
Men shaped by traditional masculine norms are more likely to justify meat-eating, a finding researchers say could inform targeted efforts to reduce consumption.
A key difference between men and women lies in how they justify meat-eating, according to researchers from Turkey’s Middle East Technical University.
Men tend to rely on direct strategies associated with masculinity – such as viewing meat as necessary for strength and health – while women tend to adopt indirect strategies such as avoiding thoughts about how meat is obtained.
The findings suggest that men who endorse beliefs such as speciesism – the idea that some species are inherently superior to others – tend to consume more meat and justify this behaviour more strongly.
