Organic and natural meal kit service Sun Basket has raised $30M to accelerate its plan to offer AI-powered meal personalization and meal plans.
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Organic and natural meal kit service Sun Basket has raised $30M to accelerate its plan to offer AI-powered meal personalization and meal plans.
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Miyoko’s Kitchen had been facing a lawsuit for using the term “butter” on its plant-based products, but that legal challenge has now been dismissed.
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Kroger has teamed up with private equity firm Lindsay Goldberg (no relation) to create PearlRock Partners, a new platform that will identify and invest in promising new CPG brands utilizing insights from its consumer data platform 84.51°.
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Researchers in Portugal are using molecular biomarkers to distinguish between genuine and fraudulent products.
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Even though smart speaker ownership has taken off among U.S. consumers, only 1% of the general population would prefer to shop with these voice-assisted devices.
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Strong distribution gains for kombucha and other fermented beverages drove sales up 21% in the past year, but retailers are facing a sharp decline in velocity.
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Mondelēz’s SnackFutures has made an investment in organic and Non-GMO snack brand Hu Products, which will help the company scale and reach more people.
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Brazilian producer Rizoma aims to regenerate one million hectares of land by 2030 — making it known that sustainability can be profitable.
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In an interview with senior vice president of merchandising and product development Jeremiah McElwee, it was also revealed that Thrive Market is seeing real growth in collagen and CBD.
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Due to the rise of e-commerce and growing prepared foods sections, consumers are making fewer unplanned, impulse snack purchases than they did five years ago.
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Moringa superfood company has raised $5M from Kellogg’s venture capital fund eighteen94 capital and Griffith Foods, and it intends to enter the foodservice space as a supplier of this super-hot ingredient.
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Organic and natural cottage cheese brand Good Culture has secured an $8M round of funding led by CAVU Venture Partners with participation from 301 Inc. and Almanac Insights.
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Cannabis giant Tilray has purchased organic and non-GMO hemp brand Manitoba Harvest for $317M and is planning a summer launch of broad spectrum hemp extracts with CBD.
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Leaders of a handful of food & beverage companies talk about what they are most worried about as we enter a new year.
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Very cool! Fairafric, which sources and produces its organic chocolate from Africa, has purchased equity for its farmers, making them co-owners in the business.
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With industrial hemp set to be removed from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, CBD will not immediately be legal in foods, beverages and supplements.
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The first of 13 Kroger Express stores has opened in Kentucky, and this smaller-format concept will carry 2,300 items, including Kroger’s Simple Truth organic brand.
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FreshDirect, an online fresh food retailer based, gives its predictions for what will be popular with consumers in the coming year.
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The EU is using a variety of tools, from cloud-based satellite imagery to mass balancing, in order to fight against fraud in organic.
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Believing that ‘plant-based’ has more credibility, influence and appeal with consumers than ‘vegan’, the Plant-Based Foods Association has just launched a new ‘certified plant-based’ certification scheme and logo.
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Buyers, product developers, category managers and chefs from Whole Foods picked what they believe to be the top trends for 2019, with Pacific Rim flavors and shelf stable probiotics heading the list.
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The dairy industry continues its attack on plant-based companies, with the target now being Miyoko’s Kitchen and its use of “butter” on its products.
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Hillhouse Capital and VMG Partners will co-invest in consumer brands seeking to expand their global reach, with organic baby food brand Little Freddie as their first investment.
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Through its loyalty program and anthropological research, Kroger is tracking food waste and five other key trends at its stores.
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