Tofurky partners with Triton Algae to bring its ingredients to plant-based meat fooddive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fooddive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Plant based meat brand Tofurky has teamed up with San Diego-based Triton Algae Innovations to commercialize new ‘algae-based meat innovations’ featuring Triton’s protein-rich Non-GMO ‘essential red' algae for retail launch in Q1, 2022.
How Tofurky Stays Authentic as it Evolves: Jaime Athos on the Dawn of a New Era onegreenplanet.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from onegreenplanet.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Tofurky CEO on double-digit growth, fighting state labeling laws, and fat in plant-based meat: ‘There’s a juiciness problem…’ By Elaine Watson With VC-backed food tech startups deploying molecular biologists and astrophysicists now competing for shelf space in the red-hot meat and dairy alternatives market with equally deep-pocketed multinational meat and CPG companies, where do independent plant-based brands such as Tofurky fit in?
“We had double-digit growth last year, 22%, and within that some real bright spots, like our ham was 600% up over the previous year,” Tofurky CEO Jaime Athos told FoodNavigator-USA.
“But it feels really lonely to be an independent company at this point. We just saw the acquisition of [Vegenaise and dairy-free cheese maker] Follow