Impossible Foods hires former Apple creative exec as chief experience officer Steve Turner, the former global executive creative director for Apple s Media Arts Labs (where he worked with Steve Jobs to launch a number of iconic Apple products), has been appointed as chief experience officer at Impossible Foods, where he will report directly to CEO and founder Dr. Pat Brown.
Turner who spent 11 years at Apple helping to launch a number of the company s disruptive technologies including iPod+iTunes, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Apple Music before launching his own strategic consulting firm, Sublime, in 2017 will be tasked with building brand awareness and
Conagra benefits from sustained and elevated at-home demand in Q3 2021 Still benefiting from a sustained consumer shift to at-home eating over a year past the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Conagra has registered a nearly 10% increase in organic net sales for Q3 2021 compared to the same period last year.
The company experienced a 9.7% increase in organic net sales across its core retail segments refrigerated/frozen (12.1%), snacks (+13.1%), and staples (+15%) – driven by a 6.1% increase in volume and a favorable price/mix impact of 3.6%. Organic net sales were partly offset by a continued downturn to Conagra’s foodservice business, the company noted.
CellRx in the UK working on growth factors for cell cultured meat, using a variety of expression systems from genetically engineered plants to fungi, yeast, and bacteria.
“But I think we are well positioned because we ve been doing this for a few years, said Ravi, who said Richcore is also working with several food companies in the emerging precision fermentation space, offering its R&D, scale-up and manufacturing expertise to help them scale up.
We re not starting from scratch. We also do a lot of high throughput screening [of microbial hosts]
to identify the strains of bacteria, yeast and fungi that will give the best yield of factors.”
Study highlights ‘troubling’ absence of animal welfare knowledge in aquaculture With traditional fishing methods in decline, aquaculture – the industrial farming of fish, shellfish, and other aquatic species – is on the rise, but with little knowledge of the impact it’s had on animal welfare, says a team of researchers at New York University s Department of Environmental Studies.
Touted as both a solution to food insecurity and the global issue of overfishing, aquaculture is the fastest growing farmed food sector, according to the FAO’s
FAO reported that global fish consumption increased at an annual rate of 3.1% between 1961 and 2017, twice that of the annual world population growth for the same period, and higher than other animal protein foods (meat, dairy, milk, etc.) consumption of which increased by 2.1% over the same period.
Kemin acquires clean label proteins firm Proteus Industries Kemin Industries has acquired privately-owned ingredient technology firm, Proteus Industries, Inc., expanding its portfolio of sustainable clean label solutions for meat manufacturing.
Founded in 2001 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Proteus Industries (which will be rebranded to Proteus under the Kemin umbrella) has developed and patented a number of clean label protein ingredients and applications to improve yield, nutrition, and quality in meat and poultry and protein-based applications.
Proteus s line of functional proteins which can withstand harsh cooking techniques within food service settings or at home provides food manufacturers with phosphate-free solutions around improved bite and texture, yield enhancement, sodium reduction, and moisture retention.