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Shropshire-based agri-robotics startup upp is automating broccoli harvesting and upcycling the 80% waste into sustainable protein. Broccoli. You know it, you lov…well, you know it. We’ve all been in bed late at night, staring at the ceiling, with a nagging question going around our heads: how much broccoli is wasted in every broccoli crop? Well, wonder no more, for we have the answ...
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The lowdown on OneThird, the foodtech startup that's tackling food waste via its innovative solution for predicting the shelf life of fresh produce. According to the World Food Programme, a staggering one-third of all food produced globally goes to waste. Financially, this amounts to $1 trillion every year - 1.3 billion tonnes. If those numbers didn’t look bad enough, there’s also t...
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  The lowdown on Danish startup EvodiaBio and its innovative tech that produces sustainable aromas for the food and beverage industry. Have you ever thought about how the process of removing alcohol from beer to make non-alcoholic beer also removes the smell of beer? That’s rhetorical - of course you have. The process, which is usually heat-based, kills off that hoppy scent, and as we...
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London-based food-tech startup Better Nature on a mission to create a plant-based fish alternative, created using food byproducts. These days, with more environmental consciousness and a significant rise in the number of people taking on a vegetarian or vegan diet, it comes as no surprise to see more and more meat alternatives on the market. What is a little surprising, though, is that there ar...
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  The lowdown on Agriloops, the French foodtech startup, that's innovating how shrimp is farmed by using aquaponics Most current shrimp farming is so overcrowded and unsanitary that the farming companies use large amounts of antibiotics, pesticides, and various other chemicals in order to try to prevent diseases spreading among the shrimp. Many of these chemicals aren’t even legal in...
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The lowdown on Jack & Bry, the innovative London-based startup that makes a range of plant-based meats, all from Jackfruit Bill Gates recently caused a bit of a stir by saying that we all need to think about switching to synthetic meat - meat grown rather than butchered, such as Meatable, the startup we wrote about in 2018 that needs only cells from the umbilical cord when a calf ...
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The lowdown on Hoxton Farms, the innovative foodtech startup that's unlocking a new kind of meat replacement that blends plant-based and cultivated ingredients For decades, the food industry has faced the challenge of finding effective, low-cost and sustainable replacements for traditional animal fat, the most important sensory ingredient in meat. Fat defines how meat looks, cooks, and tastes &...
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The lowdown on Better Origin, the startup that's creating the ‘Internet of Insects’; a global network converting excess nutrients into essential nutrients... We have all heard that the world’s need for food will increase significantly in a fairly short time, and that this will be one of the biggest challenges we face as a species. That need will require food supply to gro...
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The lowdown on the Danish FoodTech startup True Gum that's created a healthy and environmentally-friendly chewing gum It’s hardly a shocking revelation that chewing gum is not particularly good for the environment or us. It is made of polymers and resins that are also found in car tyres and plastic bottles and aren’t exactly biodegradable (also pig stomach - don’t forget the pig...
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Queue no more thanks to WalkIn, the London based startup that lets you remotely queue for the best restaurants in London for free. Nobody likes to queue. Certainly nobody likes to queue with an empty stomach at their favourite restaurant and have to watch everyone else eating. Do you book in advance and feel guilty if something comes up at the last minute? Many restaurants refuse bookin...
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