Flavor manufacturer T. Hasegawa USA has launched Hasemilk, a powdered flavor technology designed to replicate the taste and mouthfeel of dairy milk in plant-based food and beverage applications.

In this podcast series, Alex Shandrovsky interviews investors about benchmarks for funding Alt Proteins in 2026 and uncovers the investment playbooks of successful Climate Tech CEOs and Leading VCs.

Blended meat’s momentum seems unstoppable in the current landscape.After several supermarkets launched private-label products combining meat with plant-based ingredients to offer a best-of-both-worlds protein solution, food manufacturers are getting in on the act, too.

The European Commission’s call for evidence on its proposed Biotech Act II has drawn responses from across the alternative protein and industrial biotech sectors, with companies urging clearer regulatory pathways for fermentation-derived ingredients, cultivated biomass, and precision fermentation ahead of the June 10 deadline.

Indian synthetic biology company StrainX Bioworks has raised $13 million as it exits stealth and moves into commercialization, with plans to supply high-value food and nutritional ingredients to global markets through precision fermentation.