Is that soy in your Whopper? Plant-based meat sales rising
5 years, 9 months ago

Is that soy in your Whopper? Plant-based meat sales rising

Associated Press  

From soy-based sliders to ground lentil sausages, plant-based meat substitutes are surging in popularity. “If we can provide the things they value and make it from plants, not only will meat lovers be willing to buy it, but they will prefer to buy it.” Los Angeles-based Beyond Meat is sold alongside regular meat in the grocery store, not shuffled into freezers or natural food aisles like traditional veggie burgers. Burger King’s research indicated that 9% of people buying plant-based meat are vegetarian, but 90% are meat eaters looking for healthier options. “There’s a lot of people who want to eat a burger every day but don’t necessarily want to eat meat every day,” Finazzo said. Over last five years, there’s been a 25% increase in the number of meat alternative products launched, like pinto bean-based “bacon bits” from Cool Foods.

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Going vegan? Opt for beans and peas over veggie burgers and plant milks, study finds
1 month, 1 week ago

Going vegan? Opt for beans and peas over veggie burgers and plant milks, study finds

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy People who want to ditch meat and dairy would be better …

The best and worst meat replacements for your health, your wallet and the planet – new research
1 month, 1 week ago

The best and worst meat replacements for your health, your wallet and the planet – new research

Salon  

By now it's well established that meat and dairy are at least partly to blame for the climate crisis. Among these plant-based alternatives were traditional products such as tofu and tempeh, processed options such as veggie burgers and plant milks, products still under development such as lab-grown beef and unprocessed foods like soybeans and peas. Beans beat the lot The …

The climate case for mock meats is clear. But who can afford them?
6 months, 2 weeks ago

The climate case for mock meats is clear. But who can afford them?

Salon  

Isobelle McClements was 13 when she came home from school and told her parents she was going vegan. Young and non-white consumers are the most likely to eat plant-based meats, according to a May 2024 survey commissioned by alt-meat advocacy nonprofit the Good Food Institute. The $8.1 billion fake meat industry, which experienced soaring sales during the pandemic as the …

Plant-Based Meat Boomed. Here Comes the Bust
55 years ago

Plant-Based Meat Boomed. Here Comes the Bust

Wired  

Over the past three years, the plant-based meat industry has experienced a major reversal in vibes. Between 2018 and 2021, total sales of plant-based foods in the US grew from $4.8 billion to $7.4 billion, with much of that growth driven by plant-based meat in particular. An annual report from the Good Food Institute, an alternative protein nonprofit, found that …

Can a healthier plant-based burger combat falling US sales? Beyond Meat hopes so
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Can a healthier plant-based burger combat falling US sales? Beyond Meat hopes so

Associated Press  

Beyond Meat is revamping its signature plant-based burger, hoping that healthier ingredients will help it boost flagging U.S. sales. The El Segundo, California-based company said Wednesday its new Beyond Burger patties and Beyond Beef grounds cut saturated fat by 60% by switching from canola and coconut oils to avocado oil. The new Beyond Burger also has less saturated fat and …

Plant-based meat is a simple solution to climate woes - if more people would eat it
1 year, 1 month ago

Plant-based meat is a simple solution to climate woes - if more people would eat it

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In Australia — where the average person ate around …

Beyond Meat revenue falls as rising demand in Europe can’t overcome plummeting US sales
1 year, 2 months ago

Beyond Meat revenue falls as rising demand in Europe can’t overcome plummeting US sales

Associated Press  

Beyond Meat’s revenue fell nearly 9% in the third quarter as higher sales of its plant-based meat in Europe failed to make up for plummeting demand in the U.S. Beyond Meat cut its third-quarter and full-year revenue forecast last week, saying an anticipated rebound in plant-based meat sales during the quarter didn’t occur. Beyond Meat’s international retail sales rose 39% …

Beyond Meat cuts non-production workforce by 19% with demand for plant-based meat weak
1 year, 2 months ago

Beyond Meat cuts non-production workforce by 19% with demand for plant-based meat weak

Associated Press  

Beyond Meat is cutting 19% of its non-production workforce after a weaker-than-expected third quarter. “We anticipated a modest return to growth in the third quarter of 2023 that did not occur,” Beyond Meat President and CEO Ethan Brown said in a statement. U.S. retail dollar sales of fresh meat alternatives, like sausage and burgers, were down 21.5% this year through …

Plant-based meat sales are stagnating. Could amplifying its green benefits help change that?
1 year, 4 months ago

Plant-based meat sales are stagnating. Could amplifying its green benefits help change that?

Salon  

It's difficult to tell if the recent wave of anti-vegan sentiment has affected the plant-based meat market, but denigrating the image of vegans has certainly gone mainstream. However, a growing ideological divide over the environment means traditional ways of encouraging people to eat plant-based meat — promoting its green credentials — could be harming sales, according to research. Our study …

Fake Meat Is Bleeding, but It’s Not Dead Yet
1 year, 4 months ago

Fake Meat Is Bleeding, but It’s Not Dead Yet

Wired  

The day it went public in May 2019, Beyond Meat’s stock soared by 163 percent—the best one-day performance for a major American company in nearly two decades. On an earnings call on August 7, 2023, Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown told investors that net revenues had decreased 31 percent year-on-year, prompting the company’s share price to slip more than 10 …

Beyond Meat beats Q4 forecasts despite flagging sales
1 year, 10 months ago

Beyond Meat beats Q4 forecasts despite flagging sales

Associated Press  

Beyond Meat on Thursday reported better-than-expected fourth quarter sales despite flagging consumer demand and lower prices. Beyond Meat President and CEO Ethan Brown said the company is seeing progress in its drive to cut costs and manufacturing complexity. Brown also said Beyond Meat plans new products with improved taste this year. Beyond Meat said it expects net revenue in the …

Patty smiths: Check out the latest advances in meatless meat
1 year, 11 months ago

Patty smiths: Check out the latest advances in meatless meat

Hindustan Times  

Turning plants into meat substitutes is complicated. To really mimic meat, one must account not only for specific flavours, but also the textures and sensory expectations diners associate with meat. Many plant-based foods also contain seitan, a processed-wheat gluten that is low-fat, low-carb, high-protein. Oils — typically coconut or peanut — are added next, to make the mock meat feel …

The high-tech future of plant-based meat
2 years ago

The high-tech future of plant-based meat

Live Mint  

Fake meat is in trouble. That means better ingredients offering more appealing textures, flavors and aromas, but also ones that require less processing, energy and resources, according to Costa Yiannoulis, managing partner at Synthesis Capital, a venture capital fund. To that end London-based Synthesis has just led a $35-million financing round for Israeli startup Equinom, which identifies non-genetically modified seed …

How ‘alternative proteins’ can help us avert climate catastrophe
2 years, 9 months ago

How ‘alternative proteins’ can help us avert climate catastrophe

The Independent  

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How covid shaped India’s smart protein pie
2 years, 11 months ago

How covid shaped India’s smart protein pie

Live Mint  

BENGALURU : For a few short months in the late 1990s, when the popularity of Chinese food was at its peak, now-defunct Chung Wah, a beloved restaurant on Bengaluru’s Church Street, went completely vegetarian. Irish food company Kerry recently released a report pegging India’s alternative meat market at $171 million and projected it to grow at 8.5% compounded annual growth …

Learning to cook with plant-based ‘meats’
2 years, 11 months ago

Learning to cook with plant-based ‘meats’

Associated Press  

It’s that time of year when many people resolve to eat less meat. “The veggie meats are an easy substitute,” says Angela Campbell, a pescatarian living in Portland, Maine, who relies on plant-based meats to enhance her cooking. The chicken might brown, but nothing crisps up.” Cheyenne Cohen, a food photographer in Brooklyn, New York, eats vegan at home, and …

Time to celebrate soul-gratifying, ethical food
3 years ago

Time to celebrate soul-gratifying, ethical food

Hindustan Times  

Fast food with a vegan twist It’s expected that plant based food will rule the industry in 2022 with the availability of vegan options in fast food. It’s expected that plant based food will rule the industry in 2022 with the availability of vegan options in fast food. Companies that promote vegan fast food have claimed that the trial across …

Why your vegan burger is not always better than chicken
3 years, 2 months ago

Why your vegan burger is not always better than chicken

Live Mint  

Over the last few years, there has been a flurry of plant-based meat substitutes flooding the market: burger patties, sausages, minces, nuggets that claim to be a perfect replacement for the real things. However, the truth is this-- just because plant-based meat substitutes manage to emulate the taste and texture of meat doesn't make it nutritionally the same thing. When …

Plant-based food sales to rise fivefold by 2030, says report
3 years, 4 months ago

Plant-based food sales to rise fivefold by 2030, says report

Live Mint  

The global market for plant-based foods could see fivefold growth by 2030 helped by rising demand for sustainable products, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence report. Sales of plant-based dairy and meat alternatives reached $29.4 billion in 2020, and could increase to $162 billion by 2030, comprising 7.7% of the global protein market. Demand is increasing as companies like Beyond Meat …

Plant-based Burgers are Taking Over Processed Meat Buns, But are They Healthy?
3 years, 6 months ago

Plant-based Burgers are Taking Over Processed Meat Buns, But are They Healthy?

News 18  

University of Hertfordshire Hatfield Plant-based diets have surged in popularity during the past few years. They often contain many similar ingredients including protein isolates, emulsifiers, binders and other additives and are made using industrial processing methods, so can be considered an ultra-processed food product. The newness of plant-based burgers and other meat alternatives means that there hasn’t yet been time …

The good, the bad and the ugly of plant-based diets
3 years, 6 months ago

The good, the bad and the ugly of plant-based diets

Live Mint  

In the U.S., sales of meat at grocery stores are down by more than 12% from a year ago. The United Nations’ global meat price gauge has risen for eight straight months, the longest streak since 2011, and is near a multi-year high. As the country suffered through one of Southeast Asia’s biggest economic hits from the pandemic, Cruz started …

Burger King launches the Vegan Royale burger and Plant-Based Whopper
3 years, 8 months ago

Burger King launches the Vegan Royale burger and Plant-Based Whopper

The Independent  

Sign up to IndyEat's free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Burger King’s fries are also now certified by the Vegan Society, meaning it can …

How to Get More Plant-Based Meat Onto Plates in 2021
3 years, 11 months ago

How to Get More Plant-Based Meat Onto Plates in 2021

Wired  

Faux burgers and chicken nuggets are having a moment. In 2018, Impossible Foods, the Silicon Valley–based alternative meat company known for its plant-based burger that “bleeds” like the real thing, made its nationwide fast food debut at all White Castle locations in the US. A year later, KFC partnered with Los Angeles–based alt-protein producer Beyond Meat to create a plant-based …

Tricking the Taste Buds: Flavour Makers Rise to Meaty Challenge Amid Concerns Over Health, Animal Welfare
4 years, 1 month ago

Tricking the Taste Buds: Flavour Makers Rise to Meaty Challenge Amid Concerns Over Health, Animal Welfare

News 18  

At flavour maker Givaudan’s innovation centre near Zurich, veteran chef Sam Brunschweiler serves up a lamb shawarma dish that looks and tastes appropriately meaty but is made from pea protein. Givaudan analyses how fat, proteins, sugars and water in meat produce different flavours when heated because “most of the flavour comes from the cooking”, Garofalo said. Stacy Pyett, who manages …

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China
4 years, 3 months ago

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China

China Daily  

Dishes made from plant-based meat are available in some Chinese markets. About 160 supermarkets around China started selling microwavable meals featuring plant-based meats by Hong Kong-based food-technology company OmniFoods on Aug 27. Over at hotel Le Sun Chine in Shanghai, executive chef Gu Chao has created two dishes with plant-based meat-Shanghai-style meatballs with pumpkin filling and pancakes with "meat" toppings-for …

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China
4 years, 3 months ago

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China

China Daily  

Dishes made from plant-based meat are available in some Chinese markets. About 160 supermarkets around China started selling microwavable meals featuring plant-based meats by Hong Kong-based food-technology company OmniFoods on Aug 27. Over at hotel Le Sun Chine in Shanghai, executive chef Gu Chao has created two dishes with plant-based meat-Shanghai-style meatballs with pumpkin filling and pancakes with "meat" toppings-for …

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China
4 years, 3 months ago

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China

China Daily  

Dishes made from plant-based meat are available in some Chinese markets. About 160 supermarkets around China started selling microwavable meals featuring plant-based meats by Hong Kong-based food-technology company OmniFoods on Aug 27. Over at hotel Le Sun Chine in Shanghai, executive chef Gu Chao has created two dishes with plant-based meat-Shanghai-style meatballs with pumpkin filling and pancakes with "meat" toppings-for …

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China
4 years, 3 months ago

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China

China Daily  

Dishes made from plant-based meat are available in some Chinese markets. About 160 supermarkets around China started selling microwavable meals featuring plant-based meats by Hong Kong-based food-technology company OmniFoods on Aug 27. Over at hotel Le Sun Chine in Shanghai, executive chef Gu Chao has created two dishes with plant-based meat-Shanghai-style meatballs with pumpkin filling and pancakes with "meat" toppings-for …

Meatless Meat Is Everywhere. But How Good Is It For Us And The Planet?
5 years, 1 month ago

Meatless Meat Is Everywhere. But How Good Is It For Us And The Planet?

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Meatless burgers just got the ultimate seal of approval from the fast-food industry. Chipotle, for example, has said it won’t offer the meatless alternatives from Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat on its menu as the current options available are too processed and use too many ingredients. A spokesperson for Beyond Meat told HuffPost all foods involve some …

Americans, especially millennials, are embracing plant-based meat products
5 years, 2 months ago

Americans, especially millennials, are embracing plant-based meat products

Salon  

By 2050, many scientists estimate that the world food supply will have to increase sharply from today’s level to meet anticipated demand from a global population of 9 to 10 billion people. With debate over the impacts of meat production intensifying, we have been tracking U.S. attitudes related to plant-based alternatives through Michigan State University’s Food Literacy and Engagement Poll. …

Plant-based meats gaining market momentum in US
5 years, 3 months ago

Plant-based meats gaining market momentum in US

China Daily  

A plant­based sausage is served in a bun. David Portalatin, food industry adviser for NPD, said, "It's clear by the growth in plant-based protein shipments to food service and restaurant operators that this category has mainstreamed beyond those who choose a meatless diet." Noel White, president and CEO of Tyson Foods, said in a statement, "Today's consumers are seeking more …

The beef with beef: Fake meat market growing rapidly
5 years, 3 months ago

The beef with beef: Fake meat market growing rapidly

Al Jazeera  

The alternative meat market is poised to rise to $240 billion over the next two decades as new technologies gain ground and consumers change their diets, according to Jefferies. The great “protein shake-up” could see faux meat reach 9% share of the estimated $2.7 trillion global meat market by 2040, analyst Simon Powell forecasts, from less than 1% now. Plant-based …

Sorry vegans, you can't just spend your way to paradise – so don't let Taylor Swift tell you otherwise
5 years, 4 months ago

Sorry vegans, you can't just spend your way to paradise – so don't let Taylor Swift tell you otherwise

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As chain after chain – and …

Big Chicken wants in on the plant-based meat options and that's a good thing
5 years, 6 months ago

Big Chicken wants in on the plant-based meat options and that's a good thing

Salon  

Not a day seems to go by without the launch of a new plant-based alternative from a well-loved restaurant chain or brand. It’s not the case that plant-based chicken alternatives haven’t been available at all in recent years, but it’s an area that’s fallen behind the unprecedented innovation we’ve seen from red meat alternatives. While plant-based chicken alternatives available in …

Meat-based alternatives gain new popularity
5 years, 7 months ago

Meat-based alternatives gain new popularity

Hindustan Times  

From Burger King’s introduction of a vegetarian version of its uber-popular Whopper burger to the much-celebrated Wall Street entry of vegan startup Beyond Meat, companies selling meat alternatives have the wind in their sails. The companies are banking on changing dietary habits of part of the population limiting meat consumption for environmental, health or animal rights reasons. But several companies …

The meatless burger revolution is just getting started
5 years, 8 months ago

The meatless burger revolution is just getting started

CNN  

New York CNN Business — The plant-based protein trendis growing more rapidly than most people anticipated. Burger King announced plans to roll out an Impossible burger nationally, and Ikea said it’s developing a new meatless meatball designed to taste like animal meat. Other chains, like White Castle, Carl’s Jr., Bareburger, Qdoba and others also feature Beyond Meat or Impossible Foods …

Sorry vegans, Burger King's Impossible Whopper won't do anything to save animals
5 years, 9 months ago

Sorry vegans, Burger King's Impossible Whopper won't do anything to save animals

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They’ve noticed that many vegans will …

Nestle goes vegan with meat-free burger range, says its recipes could compete for taste with traditional beef patties
5 years, 9 months ago

Nestle goes vegan with meat-free burger range, says its recipes could compete for taste with traditional beef patties

Firstpost  

The world’s biggest packaged foods group, known for KitKat bars and Nescafe instant coffee, is trying to defend its place in consumers’ shopping carts Zurich: Nestle is looking to take a bite of the fast-growing vegan foods market with a range of plant-based burgers, saying its recipes could compete for taste with traditional beef patties. The world’s biggest packaged foods …

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