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From $549M being invested in food tech in May, to the top innovations at Fancy Food Show, to healthy salad QSR Sweetgreen raising $35M, these are last week’s top food tech news and innovation stories. Like what you read? Feast your eyes on the full roundup here. Or better yet, sign up for Food+Tech Bytes and get the latest and greatest in food tech delivered to your inbox every week.

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Last Week’s Top Food Tech News & Innovation Stories

1. Food Tech Media Startup Funding, M&A and Partnerships: May 2015

With 2 monster acquisitions (totaling $1.3B) and 21 fundraises (totaling $549M), capital continues to flow into the global food tech and media sector.

2. Breaking the Distribution Juggernaut: Courts Block Sysco/US Foods Merger

The US District Court in D.C. approved the FTC’s injunction against the merger, which is good news for distribution startups like FarmersWeb, Sourcery and TerreLocal.

3. Peapod Gets Into the CSA Game –Washington Business Journal

The grocery delivery service will soon add a local produce component to its offerings.

4. Top Innovations at Summer Fancy Food 2015 – Food Business News

Pistachio spread, goat milk caramels and sheep milk yogurt top the list.

5. Sweetgreen Harvests $35 Million To Satisfy Millennial Salad Cravings – TechCrunch

The round was led by T. Rowe Price with participation from Revolution Growth. It brings the QSR’s total venture funding to $95M.

6. This Farm in a Box Generates $15,000 a Month – CNN Money

Shawn Cooney harvests 4-6k plants a week in his Freight Farms container farm — roughly 80 times the number he’d get from a similar amount of space on a conventional farm.

7. Spoiler Alert App Connects Industry to Local Nonprofits for Food Donations – FoodDive

A three-month pilot program with eight organizations saw about 10,000 pounds of food donated through the iOS app, sometimes in just a few minutes.