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 group, known for KitKat bars and Nescafe instant coffee, is trying to defend its place in consumers’ shopping carts by making products healthier, with less salt and sugar, and by introducing ranges more in line with modern eating habits. It says its meat-free burgers, to be launched in several European markets this month under the Garden Gourmet “Incredible Burger” brand and made from soy and wheat protein with beetroot, carrot, and bell pepper extracts, tasted almost exactly like traditional beef burgers. Underscoring the meat-free trend, fast-food chain Burger King and Silicon Valley startup Impossible Foods on Monday announced the rollout of their vegetarian “Impossible Whopper” in 59 stores in and around St. Louis, Missouri.

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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  

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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 …

Mon Dieu! McDonald’s puts Beyond Meat’s plant-based McNuggets on French menu
3 months ago

Mon Dieu! McDonald’s puts Beyond Meat’s plant-based McNuggets on French menu

LA Times  

McDonald’s is putting Beyond Meat’s plant-based chicken McNuggets on its French menu, marking an expansion of the El Segundo company’s European business. proud to help bring more choice to the McDonald’s menu for consumers looking to diversify their proteins with plant-based options,” a company spokesperson said in a statement. Last week, Beyond Meat announced that Panda Express was expanding the …

How Beyond Meat is trying to get its sizzle back
7 months, 1 week ago

How Beyond Meat is trying to get its sizzle back

LA Times  

A package of Beyond Meat’s new burger, which contains less saturated fat and sodium than previous versions. “We thought we were just gonna go from our meteoric rise into the mainstream and not have to deal with this cycle that we’re in,” said Beyond Meat founder and Chief Executive Ethan Brown in an interview at the company’s new El Segundo …

Beyond Meat urges investors to look past bumpy Q1, says new US burger could reignite sales
8 months ago

Beyond Meat urges investors to look past bumpy Q1, says new US burger could reignite sales

Associated Press  

Plant-based meat maker Beyond Meat urged investors to look past its mixed first quarter results Wednesday, saying a new, healthier burger hitting U.S. shelves now will help reignite weak sales. International retail sales fell 12%, reflecting lower demand for plant-based chicken, Beyond Meat said. Beyond Meat said it was a tough comparison to the first quarter of 2023, when Beyond …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Beyond Meat announces layoffs after lower Q2 sales
2 years, 5 months ago

Beyond Meat announces layoffs after lower Q2 sales

Associated Press  

Plant-based meat maker Beyond Meat said Thursday it’s laying off 4% of its workforce after a difficult second quarter that saw cost-conscious customers bypass its higher-priced products. Beyond Meat President and CEO Ethan Brown said customers dealing with food price inflation traded down to cheaper store brands of plant-based meat or bought animal meat. Brown said Beyond Meat’s ground beef …

Supermarket sandwiches ‘still too meaty’ amid alternative protein use rise
2 years, 6 months ago

Supermarket sandwiches ‘still too meaty’ amid alternative protein use rise

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. The use of alternative proteins as sandwich fillers has …

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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Burger King is giving out free Vegan Royales today - here’s how to get one
2 years, 9 months ago

Burger King is giving out free Vegan Royales today - here’s how to get one

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 …

Burger King launch UK’s first vegan nuggets
3 years ago

Burger King launch UK’s first vegan nuggets

The Independent  

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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 …

The world’s largest food company to launch cultured meats
3 years, 5 months ago

The world’s largest food company to launch cultured meats

Live Mint  

Nestle SA is planning to enter the cultured-meat market in a move that could see the world’s largest food company help deliver the nascent technology faster to the mass market. Nestle confirmed in a statement Tuesday that it’s working with the company as it evaluates “innovative technologies to produce cultured meat or cultured-meat ingredients with several external partners and startups.” …

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 …

Taste alone won’t persuade Americans to swap out beef for plant-based burgers
3 years, 7 months ago

Taste alone won’t persuade Americans to swap out beef for plant-based burgers

Salon  

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Consumers are more likely to choose a plant-based meat substitute when the restaurant's advertising highlights the social benefits of doing so rather than its taste, according to recently published research I conducted with a colleague. In all three commercials, we presented nutritional information that showed plant-based …

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  

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The Best Vegan And Vegetarian Options At Major Fast Food Chains
3 years, 11 months ago

The Best Vegan And Vegetarian Options At Major Fast Food Chains

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The fake meat duopoly of Impossible and Beyond Meat have invaded the fast food landscape, becoming available at more and more U.S. chains for anyone who wants a cow-free bite at a reasonable price. Since fast food restaurants regularly drop and add menu items, it’s tough to keep track of where to find the best stuff. Beyond …

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 …

Beyond says it collaborated with McDonald’s on McPlant patties
4 years, 2 months ago

Beyond says it collaborated with McDonald’s on McPlant patties

LA Times  

Beyond Meat Inc. recovered earlier losses after announcing it collaborated with McDonald’s Corp. in the creation of plant-based patties for the fast-food giant’s new line of substitute meat products. The announcement from Beyond Meat helped the stock reverse earlier losses after McDonald’s said its new plant-based burgers would be “crafted exclusively for McDonald’s by McDonald’s.” The market interpreted that to …

Where's The Meat? Catering to Surging Demands, UK Launches First Vegan Butcher Store
4 years, 2 months ago

Where's The Meat? Catering to Surging Demands, UK Launches First Vegan Butcher Store

News 18  

In a corner of north London, a new gleaming butchers is preparing to open. To coincide with Sunday’s World Vegan Day, Britain’s first permanent vegan butcher, Rudy’s, is opening, set to sell meat-free versions of traditional products such as baycon, soysage and turk’y. Demand for vegan products has surged in recent years in Britain, with increasing numbers of people cutting …

Veggie burgers are still burgers, EU lawmakers rule
4 years, 2 months ago

Veggie burgers are still burgers, EU lawmakers rule

The Independent  

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A veggie burger as appealing as its real — and fake — meat counterparts
4 years, 6 months ago

A veggie burger as appealing as its real — and fake — meat counterparts

LA Times  

I have a secret to confess: I love fake meat burger patties like those made by Impossible Foods or Beyond. Veggie burgers — the ones made with actual whole vegetables — well, that’s a different matter entirely. I had never been a fan of veggie burgers — they’re often too pasty and vegetal-tasting — until I had some made by …

Wetherspoons to update menu with Beyond Meat vegan burgers
4 years, 10 months ago

Wetherspoons to update menu with Beyond Meat vegan burgers

The Independent  

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From the Impossible Burger to the Oscars, the rise of veganism in the mainstream
4 years, 11 months ago

From the Impossible Burger to the Oscars, the rise of veganism in the mainstream

Salon  

In early January, the Academy of Motion Pictures announced that plant-based food would be on the menu at this year's Academy Awards Ceremony on Feb. 9th. This announcement came after the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild awards dinners both switched to vegan menus, but before Google searches for "vegan Super Bowl snacks" increased by nearly 133% compared to last …

It’s a fake-meat fast-food burger smackdown! Beyond Meat vs. Impossible Foods
5 years ago

It’s a fake-meat fast-food burger smackdown! Beyond Meat vs. Impossible Foods

LA Times  

Plant-based meat and meat substitutes have greatly increased in popularity over the last five years. Beyond Meat, a Los Angeles company founded in 2009, now has its products in restaurants including Carl’s Jr., Subway, Del Taco and Dunkin’. Its primary competitor is Impossible Foods, a company based in Redwood City, which has partnerships with Burger King, White Castle and other …

The Not-Future of Meat
5 years, 1 month ago

The Not-Future of Meat

Wired  

We live in the Year of the Faux Burger. The Blend, from Tyson Foods, is made using pea protein, just like Beyond Meat’s burger. You can wash down your triple-win semi-burger with a tall glass of half-almond, half-dairy milk from Live Real Farms, which insists that their new beverage, out last summer, “might be the most purely perfect blend of …

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 …

McDonald’s to test Beyond Meat plant-based burger in Canada
5 years, 3 months ago

McDonald’s to test Beyond Meat plant-based burger in Canada

LA Times  

McDonald’s is finally taking a nibble of the plant-based burger. The small-market test is rolling out about six months after rival Burger King began testing the plant-based Impossible Foods burger, which — no surprise — is a rival to Beyond Meat. Shares of Beyond Meat Inc. bolted 11% higher at the opening bell on the McDonald’s announcement. Business Impossible Burger …

Vegan sausage which ‘sizzles and satisfies’ like pork version to launch in Tesco
5 years, 3 months ago

Vegan sausage which ‘sizzles and satisfies’ like pork version to launch in Tesco

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. Read our privacy policy A vegan sausage that is as "sizzling and delicious" as …

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 …

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 …

Veggie ‘meat’ may usher in the next diet revolution
5 years, 6 months ago

Veggie ‘meat’ may usher in the next diet revolution

Hindustan Times  

The alternative meat movement is mainstreaming vegetarianism across the world and offering committed carnivores the option abandoning meat but not the flavour for reasons as varied as improving health, stopping cruelty to animals, reducing climate change by reducing the number of methane-producing cattle, and lowering antibiotic resistance from unregulated misuse of antibiotics for growth promotion in commercial animal and poultry …

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 …

KFC hints at plan for plant-based chicken alternative
5 years, 7 months ago

KFC hints at plan for plant-based chicken alternative

The Independent  

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Best vegan supermarket burger: Sainsbury’s jackfruit patty crowned winner
5 years, 7 months ago

Best vegan supermarket burger: Sainsbury’s jackfruit patty crowned winner

The Independent  

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Meatsplainer: How new plant-based burgers compare to beef
5 years, 8 months ago

Meatsplainer: How new plant-based burgers compare to beef

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — If you want to skip meat, a new era of options is here. Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are among the companies racing to tap into the massive U.S. market of meat eaters by more closely mimicking the taste of beef than vegetarian patties of the past. For better or worse, patties from Beyond Meat and Impossible …

McDonald’s is selling a meatless burger in Germany
5 years, 8 months ago

McDonald’s is selling a meatless burger in Germany

CNN  

New York CNN Business — McDonald’s is inching closer to getting fully on board the meatless burger bandwagon with a new version in one of its biggest international markets. Nestle is making the meatless patty for McDonald’s, which first started selling the burger late last month. Last month, CEO Steve Easterbrook said during an analyst call discussing first-quarter earnings that …

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 …

Beyond Meat: Shares in vegan burger company double on stock market debut
5 years, 8 months ago

Beyond Meat: Shares in vegan burger company double on stock market debut

The Independent  

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Plant-based 'Beyond Burger' now available in Dutch supermarkets
5 years, 8 months ago

Plant-based 'Beyond Burger' now available in Dutch supermarkets

NL Times  

Good news for Dutch meat lovers who also want to make a more environmentally-friendly choice with their meals. The Beyond Burger is a plant-based burger patty by Beyond Meat that boasts to have the same texture and flavor as a real-meat burger patty. It is also more environmentally friendly than its beef counterpart, producing 90 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions …

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  

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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 …

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