Lightlife aims to make it easier for consumers to make healthier food choices by offering plant-based meat products made only with simple, recognizable ingredients, like pea protein, brown rice, dried red bell pepper, and beet and cherry powders.

The Brenntag Food & Nutrition business unit in North America, part of the Brenntag Group, announced a new collaboration with Axiom Foods for the distribution of plant proteins in the United States and Canada.

Califia Farms introduced an enhanced line of nutritious, plant-based milks made from pea, oat and sunflower proteins. The new milks deliver a complementary blend of nine essential amino acids.

Younger consumers are still the primary audience for sports nutrition products, and with Gen Z and Millennials expressing great interest in products that meet their individual needs or tastes, it is no surprise to see further segmentation of the sports category. 

Food processors using plant-based proteins are moving beyond beef. Several different companies are testing plant-based chicken nuggets, plant-based fish filets, plant-based salmon patties, and plant-based pork ribs. 

As part of Culinary Tides’ ongoing work, we have been tracking the political and economic unease here and abroad, well before the onset of COVID-19.  What the spread of COVID-19 has caused, is an amplification and acceleration of the Tide that was already rolling in.

More consumers are embracing vegetarian, vegan or flexitarian diets. For plant-based meat analogs, manufacturers are attempting to achieve the appearance of real meat to make the product more appetizing.

Four Sigmatic continues to pioneer with the cleanest available, transparently sourced protein powder featuring repairing plant-based protein and overall wellness-supporting mushrooms and adaptogens.

ONE Brands, a protein bar brand, and makers of ONE® and ONE® PLANT™ Bars, introduced two new plant-based varieties. The new additions to the ONE PLANT line, Churro and Carrot Cake flavored protein bars, are available on Amazon.

This move will accelerate the company’s penetration into the global food market and bring it closer to key farming communities and grain handlers, as well as to food and food ingredient companies.