You may have heard one of my rants about the lack of good research on diet and nutrition. The lack of good research makes it easy for bad research to get noticed. Things like statistical “p-hacking” are a real threat […]
“In demand by multinational retailers and food producers, Inscatech and its agents scour supply chains around the world hunting for evidence of food industry fraud and malpractice.” | learn more
“The idea behind this project and the collaboration between these different companies is to figure out where exactly blockchains can benefit the food ecosystem.” The plan is still light on details, but this will be something to watch. | learn more
“Finnish researchers have created a batch of single-cell protein that is nutritious enough to serve for dinner using a system powered by renewable energy. The entire process requires only electricity, water, carbon dioxide, and microbes.” | learn more
Check out these interesting slides presented by the CEO of Nextfood at the Nordic Next 2017 conference. He shows some interesting data about the market for food, future trends and more. |learn more
Strategist Ben Thompson makes his case for why Amazon really bought the organic foods retailer. Think about how both the Fufillment and AWS businesses were built around Amazon.com’s retail business as the cornerstone customer. Will WF be the cornerstone customer […]
Patrick Brown runs the company that’s trying to make meatless meat that’s as tasty as the real thing. He’s raised $200 million for this venture, and thinks VCs need to ask harder scientific questions. | learn more
Bloomberg takes up the question, discussing the search for a sustainable model for modern food delivery. | learn more