Celleste Bio produced chocolate using cell-cultured cocoa butter that matches conventional performance. The breakthrough signals new opportunities for product developers to address supply constraints while maintaining quality and functionality.
With a new name and Purely Better positioning, Vibrant Ingredients is signaling bigger ambitions in natural flavor, preservation, and functional ingredient platforms. The rebrand reflects a push to accelerate innovation, speed commercialization and meet rising demand for clean label formulation tools.
Cheese consumption in the U.S. is at an all-time high. Discover how food scientists are transforming traditional cheeses like cheddar and mozzarella into innovative ingredients for modern food applications.
The goal of these paid, full-time internships is to create hands-on business experience, offering students opportunities to work with and learn from all levels of Hormel Foods leadership.
UC Davis researchers modify wheat to reduce harmful gluten epitopes, offering hope for safer bread and improved gluten-free options
February 18, 2025
Researchers at the University of California-Davis have developed a genetically modified wheat strain that reduces harmful gluten epitopes, potentially making wheat safer for those with celiac disease while maintaining its baking quality. Supported by a grant from the Celiac Disease Foundation, this breakthrough paves the way for future wheat varieties that could lower the risk of celiac disease and improve gluten-free food options.
Dr. Farhat will spearhead the company’s vision to develop groundbreaking ingredients, derived from both Fresh Del Monte’s portfolio and other agricultural products.
Rachel Mitacek to join company as senior scientist
July 7, 2022
Rachel Mitacek joined MGP Ingredients as a senior scientist supporting Ingredient Solutions R&D. She brings research experience in traditional meat and plant proteins, including work with novel plant protein ingredients used as dairy and meat substitutes.
Motif to expand work with Professor Alejandro Marangoni and the University of Guelph Ontario to create plant-based cheese that stretches and melts, and plant-based meat with healthier, marbleized fat
May 14, 2021
Motif will have exclusive access to these food technologies, which hold the promise to address two of the most significant challenges in plant-based foods: achieving melt and stretch in plant-based cheese, and healthier fat that marbleizes in plant-based meat.
New patent approves Kemin BetaVia for immune strengthening
May 12, 2021
Kemin Industries has been granted a United States patent (US 10,912,794) on the use of beta 1,3 glucan for modulating human immune function and treating intestinal inflammation. This new patent joins a previously issued patent (US 9,574,217) on the production of beta-glucan for immune modulation using algae from a proprietary strain of Euglena gracilis, ATCC PTA-123017.