Starting a new company is extraordinarily difficult, requiring untold hours of hard work to overcome the myriad of hurdles and pitfalls. Having both built food-tech companie[...]
Glyphosate, the world’s most used herbicide, has recently become a major issue for the U.S. food and supplement industry because of its residues in foods. The World Health Organiza[...]
Tyson Innovation Lab developed and launched its first brand,¡YAPPAH!, in just 6 months — which is unheard of when it comes to big brands. ¡YAPPAH! is a mission-driven snack[...]
As of mid-day, on Saturday, Pilotworks the shared kitchen provider that opened here in Chicago in May, and for which I worked last winter, announced its abrupt closure and shut dow[...]
Plant-based yogurt startup Lavva is way more than meets the eye. With just seven whole food ingredients and no stabilizers, the probiotic- and prebiotic-rich formula have set it [...]
There was a time, prior to the 20th century, when agricultural soil was rich, healthy and organically dense. Soil, in all of its regional variations, had always been a deeply compl[...]
Dirty Lemon is a direct-to-consumer beverage brand that sells its products exclusively via text message. Founded in 2015, the brand has created a “conversational commerce[...]
This post is sponsored by Relish Works. Are you a startup rethinking the foodservice value chain and ready to scale to the next level? Relish Works just launched The Food Foundry, [...]
I Heart Keenwah is a company focused on heirloom quinoa. The company exclusively sources Bolivian Royal Quinoa for all of its products, grown by smallholder farmers that employ s[...]