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Beleaguered meal kit company Blue Apronâs stock price surged 36% overnight after announcing July 16 that upcoming menus would feature the popular plant-based burger from Beyond Meat, which also saw a 3.6% bump in its stock in the same period.

US retail sales of organic food continue to increase (reaching nearly $50bn in sales last year) but at a slower pace than years past, according to a Rabobank report.

New parents in middle- and high-income households increased their spending on produce after they had a child than before, a recent study found.

Cargill and Ecolab have announced the 2019 class of startups participating in its Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator 13-week program.

Frustrated that many premium, organic and better-for-you brands are marketed primarily to affluent consumers who already are healthy, rather than âthe people who need them the most,â Ibraheem Basir decided to take a different approach when he launched his natural food brand A Dozen Cousins last year.

As the most abundant certified -sustainable fish in the world (according to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations), Wild Alaska Pollock is not the first fish consumers may think of when it comes nutrition and sustainability, but that's about to change, says Trident Seafoods.

Huel, a "complete nutrition brand" making nutrient-packed powders and ready-to-drink products, has taken off in the US where founder Julian Hearn expects to hit $27m in revenue by the end 2019.

US retail sales of plant-based meat were up 9.6% to $801.1m in the 52 weeks to April 21, 2019, significantly outpacing growth in conventional meat sales (+2%), although the pace of growth has decelerated from the previous year, when plant-based meat sales grew by 25%, new data shows.

An Illinois federal judge says she recognizes LaCroixâs frustration with what it believes to be an âentirely frivolousâ lawsuit querying its all-natural credentials, but says there are no grounds to sanction the plaintiff, as the company has demanded.

Weâre searching for trailblazing, entrepreneurial start-ups or established brands with new products to present their red hot food and nutrition innovations targeting expectant Moms, babies, toddlers, kids or teens at FoodNavigator-USAâs FOOD FOR KIDS summit in Chicago in November.

Tart cherry juice brand CHERRiSH has several health benefits that make it stand out against other sports drink brands (which primarily compete on hydration and electrolyte replenishment) including its ability to reduce muscle inflammation and purge the body of lactic acid following a tough workout, according to founder and CEO Dan Haggart.

With the opening of a massive, state-of-the-art probiotics fermenter in upstate New York this morning, DuPont hopes to secure its position as a market leader in creating and supplying clinically-backed probiotics to food, beverage and dietary supplement manufacturers looking to meet growing consumer demand for the ingredients.

Finnish start-up Solar Foods has developed a complete protein made from carbon dioxide, air and electricity, CEO Pasi Vainikka tells FoodNavigator.

The FDAâs proposal to permit the term âpotassium chloride saltâ on food labels as a more consumer-friendly alternative to âpotassium chlorideâ has not gone down well with Campbell Soup, which favors the term âpotassium salt.â

Chobani has unveiled a new nut-butter-infused line of yogurts it claims will add incremental growth to the sluggish US yogurt category, which edged back into positive territory in the latest four weeks (to June 29) after a dismal few years.

Consumers are set to spend more than ever on Prime Day this year (July 15th and 16th) across every product category including grocery, according to e-commerce performance analytics platform Profitero.

Starting or running a business is undeniably hard â for everyone. Even if someone appears to be strolling down easy street, chances are they still wake up panicked in the middle of the night, check their work email on their phones in the bathroom and stress over balancing budgets just like everyone else.

Sales of new keto-friendly cereal Magic Spoon have exceeded expectations, say founders Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz, who claim to have sold âfar more than we projected even in our most aggressive projections,â in the first three months.

The US market for foods and beverages featuring hemp-derived CBD â from relaxation drinks to gummies â could be worth $2.5bn by 2023, or 10.5% of an estimated $23.7bn market for CBD products (spanning everything from pharmaceuticals to petfood), predicts a new report from Brightfield Group.

Corbion has received organic certification for its Nebraska-based production facility, where the company manufacturers vinegar- and lactic acid-based ingredients, meeting the rising demand for organic ingredients in the food industry.