Alternative proteins

A recent study from the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has found that microalgae can act as a highly nutritious pollen substitute for commercial honeybees.

Swiss food giant Nestle is launching plant-based substitutes for shrimp that promise to mirror the performance, taste and nutritional profile of the originals.

India Boyer is a dealflow manager at Hatch, a role that involves finding – and tracking – emerging startups across the aquaculture value chain, looking to forge possible investments and partnerships. She is also currentl…

Hooked Foods, which launched its vegan tuna product, Toonish, into Swedish retail earlier this month, has raised €3.8 million.

Food tech startup Aqua Cultured Foods, which is using fermentation to develop seafood alternatives with a realistic taste and texture, has launched in Chicago this week.

A range of new plant-based ingredients that have been designed for the alternative seafood sector has been launched in Germany today.

The plant-based seafood segment is moving far beyond soy and corn-based substitutions and can now offer seafood lovers the same taste and experience as the "real thing", according to Monica Talbert, CEO of the Plant-Base…

Nomad Foods and BlueNalu have agreed to explore the introduction of cell-cultured seafood in Europe, where demand for sustainably produced, healthy seafood products continues to grow.

Japan-based Next Meats Co, best known for creating plant-based barbeque meats, has added a tuna offering to their list of animal-alternative products.

Plantible foods, which produces protein from duckweed, has secured the closing of a $21.5 million Series A funding round led by Astanor Ventures, a global leader in agrifood impact investing.

Unlike alt-meat, alt-seafood may struggle to reach more than a niche market, according to Rabobank seafood analyst Gorjan Nikolik, due to a range of issues.

Paul Shapiro, CEO of The Better Meat Co, believes that mycoprotein fermentation will give the plant-based seafood sector a whole host of ingredients for their edible offerings, while making the global food system more su…

NovoNutrients, which creates proteins for applications including aquafeeds using industrial carbon dioxide emissions, cheap hydrogen and naturally occurring microbes, has raised $4.7 million.

If soy has such negative impact on the environment, why is it still used in salmon feeds? Many new ingredients are being developed, why don’t we see a bigger change in the feed composition?

Cell-cultured and plant-based seafood company Finless Foods has promoted Shannon Cosentino-Roush to chief strategy officer (CSO).

Though many leading cell-cultured seafood companies are based in Asia, Dr Sebastian Rakers, co-founder of Bluu Biosciences, believes that European consumers will embrace cell-based seafood due to its enhanced sustainabil…

Eight alt-seafood producers, including Wildtype and Blue Nalu, have made the semi-finals of a competition that aims to help feed the growing global population using alternative protein sources.

Alternative seafood is a promising avenue for dealing with animal welfare concerns in traditional seafood, and the rise of new producers should bring a welcome dynamism to the seafood space.

The buzz around cell-cultured seafood has been growing steadily, and as Lou Cooperhouse, CEO and co-founder of cell-based seafood company BlueNalu explains, it's only a matter of time before these companies reach commerc…

Jen Lamy, who manages Good Food Institute's cross-programmatic sustainable seafood initiative, believes that both plant-based and cellular seafood have a bright future - both in terms of providing consumers with an ethic…