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The UK’s Discarded Spirits has just unveiled a grape-based vodka, made using waste-products recovered from the wine making process, in an attempt to tap into consumer desire for zero waste ingredients.
UK start-up predicts lab-grown sausages on shelves by 2023 after technology ‘breakthrough’ You may or may not know that Winston Churchill foresaw the development of lab-grown meat. “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing,” he wrote in a 1931 essay, “by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.” Doing so would free up land that had been used for growing crops to feed farm animals, he concluded, allowing parks and gardens to “ cover our pastures and ploughed fields.” Now, nearly 90 years on, a company...
How UK brands are reformulating to avoid the HFSS ad ban UK food brands are currently digesting planned government legislation coming next year which will prevent marketing and advertising of HFSS being shown on TV (pre-9pm) and online from 2022 and limit where these products can be placed in bricks and mortar stores. But the proposals are vague, and the government is yet to fully explain how it will define which foods, ingredients and formats will come under the scope of the legislation. Although details have yet to be sketched out, it is believed the Government w...
Subscribe Meet the start-up converting wood into food grade protein: ‘We are expanding the definition of what a food crop is’ By Katy Askew Arbiom is a start-up developing solutions to convert timber by-products into food and feed ingredients. The group recently unveiled its first protein ingredient, SylPro. We caught up with the company to find out more about its technology and commercialisation strategy. The world is facing a protein challenge. By 2050, the global population could total around 9bn people. With risin...
The Food and Drink Federation says UK plans to restrict in-store promotions of foods high in fat, salt and sugar will deter companies from developing lower sugar and fat alternatives.