thoughts of food
The sushi you eat isn’t fresh.
Why most sushi is frozen, and how you may not ever be able to tell the difference. | learn more
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thoughts of food
How Driscoll’s reinvented the strawberry.
You’ve seen their berries – they are beautiful! The company claims nearly 1/3 of the US berry market. There’s a serious commitment to breeding and genetics keeping them at the forefront of the berry business. The New Yorker offers an […]
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HelloFresh to IPO, despite Blue Apron’s rough start.
Blue Apron hasn’t had the best go of their public market debut. Despite that, HelloFresh plans to go public in Germany soon. Crunchbase tries to explain why. |learn more
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How The Netherlands feeds the world.
“The Netherlands is a small, densely populated country, with more than 1,300 inhabitants per square mile. It’s bereft of almost every resource long thought to be necessary for large-scale agriculture. Yet it’s the globe’s number two exporter of food as […]
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FDA warns bakery that Love is not an ingredient in granola.
“Your Nashoba Granola label lists ingredient ‘Love’. Ingredients required to be declared on the label or labeling of food must be listed by their common or usual name [21 CFR 101.4(a)(1). ‘Love’ is not a common or usual name of […]
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John Deere has an AI lab in Silicon Valley.
The 180 year old company had trouble getting AI talent to Iowa, so they set up shop in the valley instead. They are focusing on technology for precision agriculture, managing crops at the plant level for increased yields and lower costs. |learn […]
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The origins of the lab-grown meat idea.
Willem van Eelen was a Japanese POW during WWII, often struggling with a lack of calories. “[O]ne day during [his] first year [in medical school], he came across a group of researchers in the laboratory using stem cell technology to […]
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The latest chapter in the Plenty story.
I’ve written about vertical farm startup Plenty before, and now that they’ve raised an additional $200MM from SoftBank, it’s time for another look at their progress and vision. Reminder: “All told, Plenty says, its technology can yield as much as […]
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Memphis Meats raised money from some big names.
Cargill Inc., Bill Gates, and Richard Branson participated in a funding round for (yet another) company that’s working to create meats from cultured cells. This technology is important for a variety of reasons – ethical and environmental immediately come to […]
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New research in nutrition is in – fat is good again!
The results of a 7-year, 135,335 person study across 18 countries have been published. Like other studies, it points to excessive carbohydrates as the culprit behind early death, while exhonorating dietary fat. “As the fat consumption increases to a range of […]