Plant-Based Business News

Beyond Meat founder Ethan Brown just announced that he would back a tax on meat consumption, hoping that it would encourage consumers to defer to more plant-based options. With plant-based consumption on the rise, vegan companies are racing to close the price gap between plant-based alternatives and their meat counterparts...

Wicked Kitchen, Tesco’s signature vegan food brand, is crossing the Atlantic following a successful $14 million Series A funding round and coming to US retailers including Sprouts Farmers Markets and Krogers locations nationwide. Until now, plant-based brand Wicked Kitchen could only be found in the United Kingdom at the 600 Tesco supermarket locations, but the company’s rapidly rising popularity

Legendary musician Questlove, tennis champion Roger Federer, and Formula 1 Racer Lewis Hamilton just joined the vegan food tech company NotCo’s rapidly growing roster of investors. The public figures joined NotCo’s Series D funding round led by Tiger Global where the company secured $235 million dollars. Following the f...

Consumer interest in plant-based meat is rapidly growing, and online shoppers are turning their attention to vegan proteins across all categories. Amazon recorded that shoppers searched for plant-based meat an astounding 44,000 times during the month of June. The...

Atlanta’s favorite plant-based stop Slutty Vegan is growing into a vegan food empire, and this week, the fast-food giant became one of the initial recipients of The Black Restaurant Accelerator Program. The campaign led by The PepsiCo Foundation and the National Urban League aims to support Black restauranteurs impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative...

Swiss food giant Nestle is innovating its product lines to include cell-cultured meat, according to a Bloomberg report that revealed the multinational conglomerate will begin developing cultured meat alongside its growing range of plant-based products. Nestle will beg...

A recent report proves that plant-based proteins and meats aren't just the future: These innovative products have already captured consumers' interest at a rapid pace. During the COVID-19 pandemic, plant-based eating grew quickly as more consumers shifted their diets to focus on health and wellness. According to new resear...

Eat Just, maker of the plant-based egg favorite JUST Egg, is speculated to be going public at a hefty valuation of $3 billion. According to one of the company's lead investors, Eat Just is likely to go public in Q4 of this year, having grown fast enough to reach for a valuation that is fully $1 billion more than what Bloomberg estimated it was worth just last October, which was $2 billion then. Cu

The rapidly growing demand for plant-based products is fueling new scientific research and the development of plant proteins. A group of food scientists at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst has assembled to aggressively research plant-based protein thanks to a grant from the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the Good Food Institute (GFI)...

New Culture, a San Francisco-based food technology company, has developed a "dairy-identical" vegan mozzarella that it is bringing to market in 2023. Dairy identical means that the new product is made of a milk protein called casein, which along with whey protein makes up the proteins in cows’ milk, but this casein is created without the involvement of cows. Instead, the company uses a f