The burgeoning plant-based dairy sector in China will need to quickly shift from its first generation focus on emotions and sensory properties to more functional innovation in order to ensure continued growth in the local market.
The UK’s plant-based sector is upping its calls for draft guidelines that would restrict the labelling of dairy alternatives to be rejected as it fears a clampdown from trading standards authorities preventing brands from using dairy-related terms such...
The Danish brand Naturli' will feature two versions of its vegan butters—Plant Butter Spread and Plant Butter Block—both formulated to perform and taste like traditional butter.
While most plant-based categories saw year-over-year unit sales slide last year in the face of higher prices to offset inflation, a handful of categories bucked the trend – including plant-based cream cheese, sour cream and spreads.
After it emerged that policymakers were considering a ban of dairy descriptors on plant-based products sold in the UK, makers of dairy alternatives are none the wiser if their industry would face more restrictive labeling rules.
The fluid milk checkoff could be forced to retract its ‘Wood Milk’ viral advertising campaign and issue ‘corrective advertising’ after a non-profit organization complained the ad was ‘unlawfully approved’ by the USDA.
Join us on June 1, 2023 for a 60-minute webinar discussing innovation across the dairy and dairy alternatives space – from functional to plant-based and precision fermentation dairy – and a policy overview on sugar reduction.
FDA is reopening the comment period for draft guidance on labeing plant-based milk at the request of several stakeholder groups, but comments already submitted reveal a wide rift between dairy and plant-based players about how best to describe non-dairy...
The company’s functional ingredients for alt dairy products such as plant-based yogurt contains four starter cultures and five ready-to-use consumer concepts and aims to close the gap in taste, texture and nutrition.
The International Dairy Foods Association says lowering the amount of dairy products offered as part of the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition program would mean participants would get fewer essential nutrients.
New data from IRI and SPINS shows continued steep declines in sales of refrigerated meat alternatives but pockets of growth in frozen products and some plant-based milk, cheese, and yogurt subcategories, which do not all behave in the same way (spoiler...
Oatly has unveiled a cost-cutting plan after posting another disappointing set of results, with a $107.9m net loss on net revenues up 7% to $183m in the third quarter (+16.7% to $199.7m on a constant currency basis), with gross profit margins of just...
Swiss-based Cultivated Biosciences has secured fresh funding to develop its solution to the challenge of improving mouthfeel and texture in plant-based dairy.
While the meat alternatives category is suffering from some growing pains, investors’ enthusiasm for dairy alternatives continues unabated, with plant-based dairy specialist Eclipse Foods this week announcing a $40m series B round* led by Sozo Ventures,...
On the podcast this week, we have First Milk CEO, Shelagh Hancock, and CFO, Greg Jardine; Lourdes Mato, research scientist, and Lisa Power, director of marketing, at Edlong; Mary Quicke, from Quicke’s; and Terry Daly, co-founder of avocadomilk. [Photo...
US retail sales of refrigerated yogurt and kefir were flat (-0.1%) in the 52 weeks to February 23, and down -0.4% in the latest 12 week period, according to SPINS data,* but this doesn’t mean that we’ve hit ‘peak yogurt,’ insists siggi’s, which recently...
Miyoko’s has gone on the offensive in a dispute with the State of California over the use of the term ‘butter’ on a plant-based product, suing state agriculture officials for violating its First Amendment rights by demanding the offending term be removed...
In the Greek yogurt company’s biggest brand expansion to date, Chobani will roll out oat beverages, oat yogurt substitutes, oatmeal dairy yogurt, and dairy creamers in the coming months.
